Need a weapon to fight against the deceptions? How about a classic Ion Blaster?

This one is mostly G1 inspired. The one fron the show is, for obvious reasons, very simple in its design, so I took inspiration from various toys, as well as a bit of creative interpretations.

Printing: 

There are six parts to print, four main Parts, as well as the grip and what I'll call the magazine. Printing all at 0.16 layer height and 10% infill, printing will take about 20 hours and 400 grams of filament

Some of the parts require supports but I did a lot of manual support panting, so only regions that are really need support are supported, making for quick and easy removal.

Using a smooth build plate will result in a cleaner looking print for some areas.

Assembly:

Assembly is very straightforward, start by glueing the magazine and grip to Part 3:

Then assemble all the main parts in order. The connectors are shaped so you pretty much can't assemble them wrong.

Congrats! now you have your very own Ion Blaster!

Scale: 

The finished Blaster is about 50 cm long.  

I've scaled it so it's roughly the same as is in the show, but human scale obviously. It's actually a pretty small weapon, so if you'd like it a little bit bigger print it at 125% it should still fit on most printers and the resulting weapon will be a little over 60 cm.

Filament:

I used Anycubic black metal PLA filament, but any silk black or metallic looking filament could look very nice as well. Sometimes the Blaster is also depicted as silver/grey, so any grey silk/metallic filament should work just fine.

All that being said, happy printing!

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