August 13, 2025
Description
"The Battle Axe is a powerful shell-ejecting shotgun that justifies its heftier price tag with the ability to fill a room with foam fast. It has been custom painted with a stark black and white design and finished with pearlescent highlights. WHITE_1; BLACK_1; PEARLESCENT_1; SHOTGUN_1;"
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WARNING: These parts, like any other multi-material model, will invariably be more expensive, take more time, and generate more waste than solid-color ones. Do not expect this set of files to be cheap or efficient, but instead to be eye-catching and beautiful.
Printing:
The modified parts are all arranged identically to their default variants in individual .3mf files and have been pre-painted with their proper colors and prepped with SillyButts' recommended settings. The GripPanels have been uploaded both as a pair and as separate _Left and _Right files. Note that the GripPanel parts do require a 0.2mm nozzle in order for the text to print legibly.
For the other parts:
With binary-color prints such as this one, a dual extrusion setup such as IDEX can greatly reduce the extra costs typically generated by multi-material printing.
Assembly/Post-Processing:
Final assembly is identical to standard.
Some overlaps of main and accent color may occur during printing from random error, especially on the thinner lines and on the lettering. Black Sharpie works well to touch up the blaster and hide any encroaching white filament. Black in the white was not a problem I experienced, but you could probably solve it with a vibrant white paint or perhaps white-out.
Optionally, one may paint the areas indicated in silver in the model images with an opalescent colorshift paint to mimic the opal accents seen on the official CS:GO Printstream skins. I recommend an opalescent alcohol ink such as Jacquard Pinata #037, as its transparency allows the white base to show through, but you can probably use any old color shift paint - just remember to sand and apply filler to hide layer lines, and to stay away from water-based paints if the blaster is being used outside.
If someone wants to modify these files further, let me know and I'd be more than happy to post the .f3d and .step files as well.
Credits To:
Sillybutts, for the spectacular open-source shell shotgun that this fileset is derived from
JTPNZ, and the Counter-Strike video games, for the beautiful decals that inspired this project
Changelog:
5/7/25: Added blurb quote, formatting
3/28/25: Added credits, and a couple very important legal clauses
12/28/24: Finally finished the blaster, after many complications; uploaded glory photos of said blaster; added post-processing information; minor grammar edits
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Unfortunately Necessary Statement:
More Unfortunately Necessary Statements:
NONE of the files found anywhere on this Printables page or account are to be used to produce blasters for commercial sale without first contacting myself and, if applicable, the designers of any and all of the original filesets, and negotiating a contract.
Additionally, NONE of the files found anywhere on this Printables page or user, or any account under the name crispy_CORNDOG are to be downloaded, modified, sold or otherwise utilized in any manner by the business known as Frontline Foam, or any of their affiliates. By downloading this fileset or any others published by crispy_CORNDOG on any platforms, you agree that you are not in ANY WAY under or working with or for Frontline Foam and/or related to Frontline Foam or Derrikk Sun.
Violators of the above statements, or of any other legal clauses in the Creative Commons License, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — Share Alike
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