Monday, October 6, 2014

Destiny: The Last Word

Top: In-game model
Bottom: My prop



Sanding, filling, priming the 3d printed parts.







This is a lot faster and smoother than trying to clay up the entire area


I just used hot glue to quickly put down registration keys and ridges.

First half of cylinder mold.


Cylinder and  "power cell" molds.

It was a little wonky setting up the mold for the grip.

Main body mold.

To create the mother mold, I just decided to pour about 1/4" of resin on top of the cured silicone.
It's a bit wasteful of the resin, but it's way quicker and more convenient than cutting plexi-glass.




I didn't take a bunch of pics of the steps leading up to the next few pics. I poured the cast solid since it's a thin part, then I tried a few different methods for trying to get the gold in the recessed areas.

In this pic, I think I hand painted gold into the recesses and wiped away the excess. I didn't care for that method so here I'm trying something else. I've masked off the areas that will remain black.

The result is that all the stuff that should be gold is gold, but here I have a giant gold section through the middle that really needs to black. I ended up hand painting the black back over the gold. Since the recesses are so deep, I didn't have to worry about getting black in the gold areas.

This is the cylinder and the cylinder arm. I had the idea to try using rare-earth magnets to hold the cylinder in place that way there would (literally) be some wiggle room when the cylinder swings out to release the power cell.
 Which ended up working out great.

Some final pics:










12 comments :

  1. Any chance this model may end up on myminifactory? I know you invested a lot of effort into this, but it'd be awesome to have one of my own.

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    1. Hi there, sorry for the late reply. No, I cannot give out any of the 3D models from which these props were made. Sorry.

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  2. Put me down for one if you decide to sell any. Seriously dibs Haha

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  3. Can we talk about your models? I would be very interested in printing my own, but I can not find a way of contacting you other than commenting here.

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    1. Hi there, sorry for the late reply. I'm sorry but I cannot give out any of the 3D models from which these props were made.

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  4. Seriously how much for one of these??? the need is unreal! :D in GBP(£)

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  5. Dude this thing is gorgeous. I sent an email, hopefully you still make these.

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