Thor's Hammer 3D Printed

rodey31 · Aug 31, 2012

Hi everyone!

I started working for a 3D printing company a few months ago. Of course, I landed on this site looking for cool stuff to make. After watching the Avengers movie, I found a CAD file for Thor's Hammer. Here it is!! I can't wait to get it painted!

Captainjaze · Aug 31, 2012

Very cool! Can't wait to see it finished!!!

CaptainMarvel · Aug 31, 2012

rodey . . .
Are you able to divulge the cost (or at least a range) for a 3D print job like that?

echo9 · Aug 31, 2012

Very nice!! Would you happen to be able to share the CAD file you found?

noble · Aug 31, 2012

That has got to take forever to print.

What's the wall thickness?

CaptainMarvel · Aug 31, 2012

echo9 said:
Very nice!! Would you happen to be able to share the CAD file you found?

Not likely the file he used, but you could probably use and, if needed, modify this one . . . .

Thor's Hammer by Skimbal - Thingiverse

sciroccojunky · Aug 31, 2012

rodey31 said:
Hi everyone!

I started working for a 3D printing company a few months ago. Of course, I landed on this site looking for cool stuff to make. After watching the Avengers movie, I found a CAD file for Thor's Hammer. Here it is!! I can't wait to get it painted!

Amazing. Can't wait to see it painted. Nice work.

Ki Djowac · Sep 1, 2012

WOW, very nice ! Must have cost a pretty penny for something that size to be 3D printed though. Nevertheless, it came out great :thumbsup

rodey31 · Sep 1, 2012

Thanks everyone! It's really fun to hold onto this hammer!

As far as price, I'm not sure because we can just send it over to our factory of printers when there is space on the machines. And it only took 30 hrs to make the hammer. We can "sparse fill" the parts. This means it looks a honeycomb on the inside so it's not solid all the way through. That helps to cut cost and time.

I got the file from Thor hammer - Other, STEP / IGES, STL for 3D, SolidWorks - 3D CAD model - GrabCAD

I will post pics of the painted hammer sometime next week when my coworker is done.

Eaglewood · Sep 1, 2012

nice but not cost effective at all-- The place I get my 3D printing done at charges $80 per inch --so Im estimating that this one would cost maybe $500-$700 to do depending on the type of material used. the high resolution quality resin would cost about twice that..

Vorak · Sep 1, 2012

Awesome hammer.

I suppose working at the 3D printing place would hopefully help you keep the costs down a little.

sciroccojunky · Sep 1, 2012

Eaglewood said:
nice but not cost effective at all-- The place I get my 3D printing done at charges $80 per inch --so Im estimating that this one would cost maybe $500-$700 to do depending on the type of material used. the high resolution quality resin would cost about twice that..

realistically he only has to do it once. Then mold off of the 3d print and then use resin and whatnot which is much cheaper. I'm sure that there are a ton of people on here that would pay $100 or more for an unpainted resin kit. I know I would. That would help offset the cost of the master copy. I've seen quite a few hammers on here and a couple are pretty good but this one looks by far the best. Should be awesome when painted. I'd bet money that's how they made the movie version of the hammer. And from his pics I can't tell the difference from a detail perspective.

can't wait to see pics of the painted example this next week. Should look hot.

echo9 · Sep 2, 2012

Thank you for sharing that link!!

rodey31 · Sep 2, 2012

Eaglewood said:
nice but not cost effective at all-- The place I get my 3D printing done at charges $80 per inch --so Im estimating that this one would cost maybe $500-$700 to do depending on the type of material used. the high resolution quality resin would cost about twice that..

It's not a resin. We actually use high grade thermoplastics with our FDM technology.:thumbsup

rodey31 · Oct 10, 2012

My coworker finished up painting the hammer. We decided to keep the lines on the handle black instead of silver. For some reason, the silver didn't look right. I still think it came out awesome

sciroccojunky · Oct 10, 2012

With paint it looks awesome! Very jealous. Nice.

TheShinyOne · Oct 10, 2012

Very nice, how heavy is this thing?

rodey31 · Oct 10, 2012

The hammer is a little over 2 pounds. we did what is referred to as sparse fill. Basically, it looks like a waffle or swiss cheese on the inside. So the it's not entirely solid. This reduces weight, time, and cost.

TheShinyOne · Oct 10, 2012

Ah, I was familiar with the sparse fill term. I think a hammer should have some weight to it, it increases the realness of it.

rodey31 · Oct 12, 2012

Most of the weight is in hammer part of it. So it does have some heft and could injure someone! But we sparsed filled it only to make it print faster. It also lowers the cost. Which I found out would be around $500 with shipping.

Now I have to find a real leather strap to attached to the end (even the strap in the photo 3d printed

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