Anathema Cosplay Staff from World of Warcraft

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I Have Made This Staff For Cosplay At An Event Called “Japananimanga Night". The Designing In The 3D Program, Printing, Building And Painting Took Around Half A Year. It Is Almost 1.8 Meters In Length. A Special Detail I Payed Attention To Are The Green Crystals, They Are Hollow With Leds Inside And Glow Beautifully At Night. The Staff Was My First Own 3D Project. I Have Previously Never Really Worked With A 3D Program. I'Ve Drawn The Whole Thing With Google Sketch Up. I Bought My Ultimaker2 For This Project, So I Did Not Have Any Experience With 3D Printing As Well. Therefore, There May Be A Few Parts That Need Slight Adjustments After Printing To Fit Together Better. I Had To Sharpen Some Edges, Use Glue Etc. To Put It Together Correctly. Inside The Lower Part Of The Staff Is A Carbon Rod With A 1 Cm Diameter And A Length Of 1M. The Carbon Rod Made The Whole Staff A Lot More Stable. I Had To Create Extra Fixations And Glued Them Inside The Staff To Make The Staff Durable Enough To Carry It Around All Day. On The Assembly Itself: I Put The Staff Together From Bottom To Top After I Printed All Parts (See Picture With Named Parts). In Component 2, I Placed A Screw Through The Cover And Fixed With A Small Nut. I Glued A Small Magnet To The Lid And This Way I Had A Way To Close The Lid And Keep It Closed. Inside That Lid Is A 9V Battery, And It’S Connected To The 14 Leds Placed In All The Crystals Throughout The Staff. Component 9 Was Hard To Fixate And Used A Lot Of Glue, Since It Held The Whole Upper Part Of The Staff. After Component 8 And 9 I Made The Upper Part Of The Staff Only One Half At The Time, So I Could Put All The Power Lanes And Led’S Inside Them Fist. Component 9 Has 6 Small Led In 3 X 2 Pairs, Number 18 Has 1 Large 8 Mm Led With 360° Beam Angle, The Crystal Number 16 (Printed Twice) And Number 21 Use 6 Small Leds Together. To Fix All Wires In Place I Used A Little Bit Glue. After All Led'S And Cable Were Placed I Glued The Both Halves Together. Tips On Printing: Since It Was My First 3D Project I Designed Myself I Had To Fix Quite A Lot After Printing. I Had To Readjust Some Corners Of Printed Parts Since They Sometimes Raised Themselves While Printing. With A Heat Gun I Readjusted Them Where Needed. I Had To Patch Up The Pieces Where I Glued Them Together And Grinded Off The Glue To Make Them Look Neat I Painted The Crystals (1, 9, 16, 18 And 21) With A Liquid Silicone To Protect Them While Painting The Surface Of The Rest Of The Staff. Then I Painted A Transparent Matte Finish On The Whole Staff To Protect It A Bit From Scratches Etc. Print Settings Are Written In The Title Of The Parts And Some Parts Need Additional Supports.

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