Star Trek TOS Phaser Rifle for Mego Action FIgures

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I took BiancaW's TOS Phaser Rifle and reduced its size to 1:9n scale, making it compatible with 8-inch action figures. I used CuraEngine and Slic3r to slice the model for printing, but some parts were so thin or narrow that they vanished completely. To fix this, I added a cone to the forward dish using Microsoft 3D Builder and thickened the cylinders of the barrel and upright "antenna" so they could be printed on my low-end printer. The barrel now extends slightly beyond the dish for visual interest, as the thicker dish had dulled the rifle's coolness factor. Printed in turquoise filament, it looks like a prop that would have come with Mego Captain Kirk in the 1970s.