Trigger Happy from Skylanders Swap Force

Trigger Happy from Skylanders Swap Force

I enjoy playing the Skylanders games and have the massive collection of figures to prove my obsession. My most favorite character, though, has GOT to be Trigger Happy. I have wanted to 3d print my own ever since I first got into 3d printing, but I could never find any models and my modeling ability was sorely lacking - as in non-existent. That was three years ago and I have been teaching myself how to use blender. I finally decided that it was time to try recreating Trigger Happy myself and I used the Swap Force figure as my source.

When I printed him, I scaled the model up by 150%. I included a photo of the original along side the print so you can see the size difference at that scale. I separated the model into three different pieces to not only make printing easier, but painting as well. The base, I printed on an FDM Tevo Tarantula in PLA, painted in flat black Krylon primer/paint combo and added the silvering with a product I found ca