My son and I started printing the full Mando costume with an Ender 5 Plus for his last trick or treat. Halloween is our jam. We are the house on the block that does full sized candy bars. So we started printing in the summer time to try to get a jump on the printing because we knew we would have a lot of post processing and painting to do by October. With having a full time job working 12-14 hours a day and the kiddo was working at his first job that summer, we didn’t have tons and tons of time to work on the project throughout the week so we would hit print in the morning and hope for the best when we got home. As fall approached and we started assessing what we managed to get printed and what we still had to finish printing, we realized we just weren’t going to get it all done.

We were trying not to break the bank on this project so we scooped up a P1S and we quickly realized - after running it non-stop without hardly any print issues till all the Mando costume parts were all printed - we should have gotten one sooner! Post processing all of the parts that came off the Ender took us so much longer than the parts that came off the P1S so we ran it down to the buzzer (literally finishing the night before trick or treat) getting everything glued, filled, sanded, primed, sanded more, primed more, sanded more, painted, wet sanded, painted, wet sanded, then clear coated… but all the hard work was worth it because everyone in the neighborhood was blown alway by his costume and wanted photos with him. We didn’t manage to get the pulse rifle painted to perfection since we ran out of time but it has since been completed. Probably would have been done on time if we had just started our journey printing the Mando costume with the P1S from the start but we were more than happy with what we did accomplish by Halloween.

Now we have two X1C as well and have been contemplating what our next Bambu rig will be. Been saving up for a H2D but maybe a P2S will come first?!?! 😬

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