Nazgul Gauntlets The lord of the rings

Do you like The Lord of the Rings?
It's literally my favourite saga of all times :D

Here you have the definitive Nazgul Gauntlet!

Here I drop you a video of the gauntlet not entirely builded yet to show you how it works:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Czv4FeLq3N6/

HOW TO BUILD IT

Each finger has a different number of the same pieces called fingerpieceA. Starting by the thumb finger, the number of fingerpieceA you have to print is: x6, x7, x8, x7, x5. If you look at the images you may see it easily. Of course, you can print more or lees of these pieces in order to fit better your hands. Every finger has x1 fingerpieceB and x1 fingerpieceC, except the thumb, that hasn't got the fingerpieceB (look at the pictures if it is not clear).

Then you got the knuckles (x1), and from closer to further: x1 handpiece1, x1 handpiece2, x1handpiece3, x1handpiece4.

To end, x1 thumbfingerpiece, that is like a special finger piece but bigger made just for the thumb.

Summarizing, to make the entire gauntlet you'll have to print:
x33 fingerpieceA.stl
x4 fingerpieceB.stl
x5 fingerpieceC.stl
x1 thumbfingerpiece.stl
x1 handpiece1.stl
x1 handpiece2.stl
x1 handpiece3.stl
x1 handpiece4.stl
x1 knuckles.stl
x1 armpiece.stl
x1 armpiecebottom.stl
x1 hingeA.stl
x1 hingeB.stl

Once you printed all, you have to join the hand pieces together. Notice that each piece has holes in it. The idea is to use these holes to attach the pieces together using nails or screws. If you don't have it or just don't want to buy them, don't worry, you can make your own nails to join the pieces, using filament! It's very easy and I did my gauntlet this way. Yoy have to cut a small piece of filament (like 1-2cm). Then, using a soldering iron, melt one side making a little bit of pressure, gently (have a look of the nail in the 10th picture). This is going to conform the head of the nail. Once you have that, pass the nail through the hole of the two pieces to join. Finish melting the other side of the nail, making another head, so it can´t get out. And that's it! I also made a video on instagram to show you exactly how to do it, check it out!: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz9csLeKnBE/

Now, the finger pieces are attached directly to the glove with thread. You have to sew each piece to the glove using the two holes on the sides of the piece. Make sure to sew them closely one to another to not leave any part of the glove visible, and to ensure that once it's done you can totally flex your fingers.

To join together the armpiece and the armpiecebottom, I printed 2 more hinges and place them in one of the sides so I could open and close the arm body and put myself easily the gauntlet. Didn't make holes in the 3D desing for the placing of these hinges because I think maybe some of you would prefer not to use this system, make it in another way, or directly don't print the back side of the arm (that is optional). So, what I did instead is to print the piece and made the holes easily with an screwdriver to place the hinges exactly where I wanted. I also made another two holes to place an old watchband that I had, one part in the front piece, one in the back, so I could close the arm body.

If you are interested in making the mitical flail weapon of the king of Nazguls, the Witch king, check up my desing: Nazgul Weapon Flail Witch King

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If you are interested in both designs, check the combo-pack to get it all saving money: Nazgul Gauntlet+Witch King Flail || Combo Pack

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I designed this gauntlet measuring my hand, so it is quite probable that you will have to rescale all the pieces to fit your hand, but with any slicer you can do it. I used Cura and it's very easy. Just make sure you resize equaly all the pieces to keep the relation between them. My hand is quite small, so if you are big handed, I would try from the beggining printing all the pieces at 115-120% of scale to ensure it works for you. Also, a good way to get the perfect size is meassuring the width of your hand, and then rescale the handpieces (all the same scaling factor) until they are a little bigger than that size so they cover perfectly the hand.

Also, if you want the other hand, the desing is exactly the same as it is symmetrical, but put the thumbfingerpiece in the other side.

I printed most of the pieces with 0.2 high layer and it worked perfectly, and setting it in the right position (mostly in a stand up position) you won't need to use any supports at all.

OVERVIEW OF THE GENERAL PRINTING SETTINGS

My printer: Anycubic i3 Mega
Layer height: 0.2 mm (of course you can go with 0.1 for a better finish)
Printing temperature: 210º (using PLA in my case, but it depends on the brand you are using and your 3d printer, although a good range temperature that is a reference and for sure will work well in most cases is 200-220ºC)
Build plate temperature: 60º
Infill density: 100%
Print speed: 60 mm/s