Sanding and color coating results

As you can see, the printed and assembled shell is now nice and shiny. Since I didn't want to expose my DSLR to the extremely dirty and dusty work of sanding, filling, sanding again and color spray painting, you may be content with looking at the following images of the finished results.

Actually, I'm quite happy with it. I used only what I had in the workshop, leftover racing filler, leftover sparkling black spraypaint, leftover clear varnish. The spay filler really did it's job in filling up the glueing marks and smaller imperfections of the print.

Checking the fitting

I test wise inserted the USB charging and audio connectors.. everything seems to fit.

How to get there

It's not as tedious as it reads, but patience is key. Those are the steps to get there:

1. Assembling of printed parts by glueing them together using plain acetone
2. Filling small gaps from not perfectly aligning parts using acetone-ABS-solution
3. Drying 24 hours
4. Hand-sanding (no sanding block) the whole housing with a 100 grit sandpaper
5. Filling larger imperfections using acetone-ABS-solution
6. Drying 24 hours
7. Hand-sanding again, especially the filled areas, 100 grit
8. First layer of spray filler
9. Drying 24 hours
10. Second layer of spray filler
11. Drying 24 hours
12. Sanding the whole housing with a 400 grit to a "class A"
13. Dry-wiping and cleaning of debris from sanding
14. First layer of sparkling black spray paint
15. Drying 12 hours
16. Second layer of sparkling black spray paint
17. Drying 12 hours
18. First layer of spray clear varnish
19. Drying 12 hours
20. Second layer of spray clear varnish