Fallout LARP / Cosplay Prop Mini-Nuke Super Sledge "The One Hit Wonder"

This is a prop I made for my Fallout LARP. A super sledge with a mini nuke head. I call it the One Hit Wonder. It was for a looney Scavenger/Tinkerer persona I used. He was sort of a snake-oil salesman that dealt in mostly broken trinkets that he ascribed near magical properties to. I quit using him after the TV Series introduced their Snake Oil salesman and the bit became overused.

I never really intended to release this model so I took a lot of shortcuts in it's creation. For starters, to save time I just started with a couple of other creators models. The original models were game rips and full of problems. The Nuke head is from Chris420's Mini Nuke Egg holder on Thingiverse. It's a good model, but was missing all of the screw head details. The sledge body was from Cahaidusek's Super Sledge, also on Thingiverse. That model was a game rip and I had to remake most of it as it was unsuitable for 3d printing. I basically used it as a guide for sizes and scales.

I'm releasing it now because a few people have shown interest. Expect to run into problems with the prints. I have corrected a few things I knew were wrong, like missing details and unconnected components. I also re-split the model to make it easier to paint after printing. But doing so left some bad geometry at the area it was merged so it may give you problems in printing. The model is split to make painting the fins of the mini nuke much easier. I strongly recommend that you paint them before gluing the components together.

The scale is also all over the place. It may import at weird scales in different slicers. You have been warned. You will likely need to import all parts and make certain they are correctly sized. There is a part called 20mm Sizer to help with this. Import it into your slicer. Scale it until it is 20mm in diameter. (Same size as the aluminum tube you will need) Scale the valve body and the head to fit just over the sizer. Then scale the Head Lower so that it also matches the Sizer. After that just scale Head Upper to so that it fits up to Head Lower and the Cap so that it mates to Head Upper.

The model is assembled on 2 different sizes of Aluminum Tube. 20 MM and 15 MM I did this for strength as I expected to be swinging this thing around a bit. The tube is available on Amazon. I originally used a brass valve that I had for the prop. I made a rather crude valve that can be 3d printed to save you money. Those little valves can be expensive. You will also need some plastic hose for the gas line. Amazon has it.

Worth noting that this thing is a bit heavy and solid. Some events may not allow props of this nature as it could injure someone if swung hard.  You could substitute PVC pipe for the aluminum tube to save both weight and cost.  Just scale the 20mm spacer dummy to the size of your PVC pipe, then scale everything else to fit it.