#prop diy

Queadlunn- I finished a 3d printed prop! Maybe a month and a half ago we found that an artist had released a really well done 3d print version of the Lex Prime from Warframe. I spent about a week printing the parts and used CA glue to seal and smooth out the surface of the parts. Primed and polished, then airbrushed with Tamiya acrylics and a Gaia enamel paint I got in Tokyo a couple years ago, misted on the white parts to give them a color-shift sheen (that’s really hard to show in photos).  The gold parts are painted with Golden’s Iridescent Bronze, an amazing paint that I’ve used on a lot of things in the past ten years. It was then weathered with enamel paints and finally sealed with Future.

It’s not all that comfortable to hold onto but it sure turned out pretty!

Another week, another prop tutorial!

This one is for all my Harry Potter fans!

I made 2 Quidditch brooms a long time ago with similar materials (mainly the Asian red willow branches), but I was inspired to remake the design and make it a little better!

Doing a month-build. 3d printed tricorder shell filled with a Feather u32, a couple shift registers and an inexpensive TFT. Still need to make the graphics/labels for it.

Queadlunn- Finished this one up today!

So it took a month and a half, instead of a month. I used the following parts and such to build it:

Star Trek TR-590 Tricorder Mark IX, by Tangenter (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2573989)

Adafruit Feather 32u4 Adalogger (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2795) 74HC595 Shift Register (https://www.adafruit.com/product/450) Tamiya Spray Lacquer TS-42 Light Gun Metal (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0019GBAYY) HiLetgo 1.8" inch ST7735R Display (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00LSG51MM/) Transparent Craft Vinyl (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B071ZGRG75/)

Miscelanious LEDs HP adhesive vinyl

The body was 3d printed at 0.1mm resolution, then covered in cyanoacrylate to give a good surfacing layer and then sanded. Painted and fitted with electronics that I mostly had on hand already. Only things I bought for this project were the TFT display, the Tamiya paint and the clear vinyl I used to cover the printed vinyl graphics.

This was really a practice project. The real goal is to make one of the Tricorders from late ST TNG (the type 7, this is the type 9) and I’ll probably make that next year or so.

Link to arduino code

Queadlunn- I've gotten the assault phaser to the point where I have to stop. The next step is to cast the phaser (thinking to use Smooth-On Onyx, less painting) and when I do cast it, I'll paint and weather the castings. Till then, this is how it's going to look hanging on the prop wall.

Once I get it casted I'll do another post covering my (hopefully successfully) casting process. I've never really done casting so it'll be interesting.

Queadlunn- Further progress! Only a few bits left now; one of the greeblies on the right-side, the trigger and some surfacing under the emitter. After that I’ll be painting it and possibly casting it for friends down the road.

Carving out the vents in the upper shroud was time consuming, I drilled out 2 holes for the ends if each vent, then used a number of X-acto and razor knives (X-acto chisels, #17, are incredibly helpful for this!). Once the space was cleaned and puttied I glued pre-textured styrene in to make up the bottom of the vent.