I've wanted this exact Star Trek phaser since I was 9...
This is the "dustbuster" phaser from the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Eventually it was replaced with increasingly more angular, aggressive looking phasers...but this one was always my favorite.
This was printed on my Bambu A1 3D printer using four different filaments from my AMS attachment. It wasn't printed all at once, each color was printed separately and then assembled (with a little bit of super glue). I had one minor fail, but otherwise this was a relatively quick and easy print.
Most of the stuff I print is utilitarian...organizing tools, cable clips, boxes, etc...but now and then its fun to print something just because I've wanted it for a while. What I always liked about this phaser (and really what I liked about the earlier seasons of TNG) is that it wasn't skewing toward more aggressive and militaristic. This phaser was a tool as much as it was a weapon. The curves were cooler than the angular later versions, sometimes called the "dolphins".
