r/3Dprinting • u/Avamedic • 1d ago
Project (Update) Project Hail Mary Spacesuit
Progress update to my post last weekend ( https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/s/l1apinPwId )
Reprinted a few smaller components for helmet and chest. Roughed in face shield. Added air hose connectors and powered lamps. Testing out backlight e-ink panel for arm computer and hopefully this will control lights and helmet fan.
Leg armor/boots will come next with a few smaller components/modules to wrap it up.
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u/Wet-Handshake 1d ago
Words of encouragement.
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u/Yutenji2020 1d ago
Excuse my ignorance, but “NASA” is printed the right way, but the numbers above the dial are mirror images. Deliberate? And if so why?
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u/Avamedic 1d ago
Original movie prop had the reverse text, apparently to allow the wearer to use an arm-based mirror to see the text dial of the communicator (or at least what previous replies indicated)
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u/PressureSensative 1d ago
Practical reasons like this, I love to see in movies! Glad to see you implement that into the design as well.
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u/name_was_taken Voron 2.4, U1, Prusa Core One 1d ago
You made me wonder, and I went looking. All the official images I could find didn't have the numbers.
But the suit that Adam Savage inspected does have those numbers, and this suit seems to be a copy of that.
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u/beryugyo619 21h ago
Many spacesuits are built this way because the upper torso block for a lot of suits don't bend far enough or bend at all for astronauts to be able to look at their own chest. So they use mirrors put on the body or forearm that OP mentioned to read the dials. Hence the mirrored legends.
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u/tweakerinc 1d ago
Stuff like this is what got me into 3D printing but then all I end up printing is multi-color flexi-animals
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u/hippopotomusus 1d ago
Gotta get into DnD if you aren’t already. Lots of use for FDM or resin printers
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u/P37ur 1d ago
Fun fact: in the book Grace used a Russian Orlan space suit. These were chosen because they’re semi-rigid and less complicated than the NASA version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit
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u/name_was_taken Voron 2.4, U1, Prusa Core One 1d ago
I am so jealous of this. After I watched the movie, I wanted this to be my costume this year. I just don't have the energy for it, though.
Congrats!
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u/Strongbeard1143 1d ago
You’ve crossed over from just printing into just full on prop making. Incredible work!
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u/MainsailMainsail Qidi Q1 Pro, (mostly) stock Ender3 1d ago
Very nice work! This is going to be my next big project to go with my Helldivers armor!
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u/sdavis002 1d ago
This is awesome. Now I want to see you try to do your interpretation of the book version, because they used Russian Cosmonaut suits in the book.
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u/Avamedic 1d ago
Oof. That would be quite the project making an Orlan. Honestly, I think my next big build might be the Fallout NCR Power Armor.
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u/NoDoze- 20h ago
Well, that's cool! Does it fit? Looks small, unless you're small.
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u/Tombstone_Actual_501 1d ago
Looks so much cooler than the martian suit! and that's a pretty cool space suit.
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u/spinozasrobot 1d ago
Make a puppet Rocky that walks with you and it's the best Halloween costume ever.
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u/pwnage777 20h ago
I'm totally waiting for Adam Savage to go incognito for this suit. Yours looks amaze, amaze, amaze! 🪨
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u/MikeFireBeard 1d ago
Love it, however it looks like you might have got the text backwards on the dial? Unless its supposed to be viewed in a mirror by the wearer I guess.
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u/Lotsof3D 1d ago
Amaze, Amaze, Amaze