2021.11 - 2022.12 Phantom

By the time the epic was finished, neither of them knew how it'd started

Yep, that is not a typo in the title. This "first project" took Eric and me over a year. We didn't even really have to do any modeling for it, but it still took that long >=(...

Original inspo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKE6gX95sU

3D modeling files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4561415

Steps:

"slice" and print pieces
screw up some pieces and reprint them
realize that printed pieces were not printed in the same orientation, resulting in inconsistent shrinkage and the pieces not fitting together
sand by hand
realize that sanding by hand would take a million years, and purchase disk sander head for drill
take half a million years sanding the piece
glue it together
break by accident
repeat steps 7&8 3 additional times
in the process of removing the broken components, shatter the whole model pretty badly
almost give up on life, but then put on big-girl pants and glue it back together
re-model and reprint some pieces with a channel for a wooden dowel to go through
purchase the wrong size wooden dowel and sand the dowel down to the right size (smh)
Prime
Paint!!

Considering that basically all of these steps were conducted on the weekends, AND I defended my thesis halfway through, I'd say it's frankly a miracle that it ever got done at all...