Star Lord w/ lights and sound - 3d Print Files - Infinity Orb Base in Progress

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EDIT: 9/22/14 - DOWNLOADS SECTION

For ease and convenience, I've decided to use this section to post the files for things I'm working on.

STAR LORD HELMET MODEL W/ REVISIONS

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DOWNLOAD: .RAR (Contains all .stl files)

NOTES ON HELMET REVISIONS:

This model is a remix of @Helagak's original helmet. All credit should go to him, as without the helmet, I wouldn't have been motivated to even bother doing Star Lord stuff. I spent a few hours resizing, rescaling, and revising parts of the helmet to bring it more in line with the screen version. The biggest changes happened on the front and back of the helmet. The front was flattened out and re-proportioned to eliminate the large amount of curvature on @Helagak's original helmet's front plate. The back of the helmet was curved outward to leave more room for the wearer's head, and the nape of the neck on the helmet was moved up a substantial amount. This change reduced screen accuracy a bit, but also made the helmet substantially easier to get on and off as a single piece, since the opening in the bottom of the helmet was made a bit bigger.

I also incorporated @Jonny's revised cheek parts that removed the pipes on the cheek plates because they were repeatedly not printing very well for me, and I figured I could make something that'd fit in those slots just as easily by hand. They have been proportioned accordingly with the rest of the model. Likewise, I haven't actually printed the hose parts for the mask, but I'm pretty sure they're just as easy to make via other means than 3d printing. Do what you will.

This is designed to print at 100% - no rescaling is required. However, that scale is to fit my head, which I worked up by 3d scanning my noggin and referencing it against the model. I have a 23.5 inch head circumference and a prominent nose, and the mask fits me snugly - it's a bit of a process to slide on over my ears, but once on, has just enough space on all sides that a bit of padding for comfort makes it perfect.

A last note: this mask is not perfect by any means. I love Helagak's original model dearly, and I owe him a great debt for making it available in the first place, but there were some substantial problems with parts of the model. By way of example, the way my printer kept trying to slice the piping on the mouthpiece resulted in them repeatedly falling off, or needing filler applied to them from the inside of the mask to hold them in place properly. You will need to do some sanding/cutting/patching during assembly to get this thing to go together, but it's a very useful base all the same.

STAR LORD ELECTROMAGNET ORB BASE

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DOWNLOAD: .STL | .OBJ | PRINT AT SHAPEWAYS: PART ONE | PART TWO

NOTES ON THE ELECTROMAGNET ORB BASE:

This base is meant to replicate the look of the one used in the movie and was made mostly just by eyeballing things. It does hinge closed properly if that's what you want, but its primary function is just to keep your Infinity Orb from rolling off a shelf. :)

The Shapeways parts and the parts available for download above are not identical. For the downloads above, I have sectioned the parts up a bit more than the Shapeways versions to make them easier to print on a home printer. You need 3 of the flap pieces, one of the middle piece, and 3 pins for the sides. The flaps have hinge pins built onto them and should be sandwiched between the top and bottom of the middle piece; the pins then close the holes on the ends.

Due to the size constraints, Shapeways made me post all of the parts in two listings - one for the flaps, and one for the center bit and pins. As a single 'product' it was too big for their automated system. Sorry for any confusion there.

STAR LORD EARPIECE - LED READY

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DOWNLOAD: .STL | .OBJ | PRINT AT SHAPEWAYS

NOTES ON EARPIECE:

Modeled after the earpiece from the movie as best as I can see from the reference images available! This version has been prepped to work with standardized components in order to allow you to install LEDs and make your own working version! This has been sized to fit even large ears, and has a wedge-shaped design that should allow you to snugly fit it on without spirit gum if you want an easy wearing experience.

The two large cavities inside the main body of the earpiece are designed to house 1.5V cell batteries - specifically, I designed them for the commonly-available LR1130 / AG10 coin cell battery. The hole by the ear lobe is sized to fit a 3mm red LED. There is a square hole cut in the back of the earpiece to fit your standard 9mm slide switch. I also left enough room inside the body of the earpiece to fit a resistor - I used one between 600 and 700 ohms, which is enough to dim the LED down to acceptable levels. Depending on the LED you use, you may or may not require a resistor!

The secondary piece is a back plate that holds the coin cells in place. I trimmed a paperclip and glued it to the back of mine to join contacts across the two batteries so that the 1.5V cells were in series as a 3V source. The back attaches pretty snugly, but I also sized it with two screw holes to accept M2x4mm long screws.

STAR LORD ARM BADGE

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DOWNLOAD: .STL | .OBJ | PRINT AT SHAPEWAYS

NOTES ON ARM BADGE:

Did the best I could with the reference imagery available to recreate this. I will readily admit I only eyeballed details and scale, but I think it's close enough to screen accurate that you could get away with it. Might be interesting to print this in a flexible filament so that it can move with the jacket sleeve, though I don't know what the best way to attach it to a jacket would be!

STAR LORD BELT RINGS

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DOWNLOAD: .STL | .OBJ | PRINT AT SHAPEWAYS

NOTES ON BELT RINGS:

These were modeled in a quick and dirty fashion and I will totally admit to having eyeballed the scale. However, I think they're close enough to right that most of you could use 'em! My recommendation would be to print these with a lot of infill so that they're sturdy enough to handle any movement a belt might subject them to.

NERF GUN BARREL REPLACEMENT PARTS

TOP BARREL:

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DOWNLOAD: .STL | .OBJ | PRINT AT SHAPEWAYS

BOTTOM BARREL:

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DOWNLOAD: .STL | .OBJ | PRINT AT SHAPEWAYS
Optionally, you can download the two pieces separately...
Barrel Body: .STL | .OBJ
Vent Cap: .STL | .OBJ

EDIT: 10/1/2014 - BOTTOM BARRELS HAVE BEEN MODIFIED. I observed that part of the bottom barrel was interfering with the hinge action of the lower barrel shroud which necessitated a change to the model at the bottom where it joins the base Nerf gun. The links above (including the Shapeways one) have been updated accordingly to reflect the image below:

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NOTES ON BARREL PARTS:

These are designed to replace the orange tips of the Nerf Star Lord Quad Blaster. These barrel tips render the gun incapable of firing Nerf darts, but also still allow the gun to open and close because I thought that was a really neat functionality of the base Nerf gun. You can use the exact same screws you removed from the original orange tips to affix these replacements.

Some modifications to the base blaster are required to fit the top barrel into place. Specifically, you will have to trim some of the inside of the barrel cover (the part that moves) away. I did this with a Dremel, and would recommend you do the same - it makes it a lot easier.

Each barrel is designed with two 5mm holes to accommodate LEDs. How you go about doing that is up to you, but I've discovered the best effects (in my opinion) can be obtained by filling the barrels with clear resin to help diffuse the light fully down the barrel. You could also try lightly sanding some clear acrylic with a high-grit sandpaper and cutting it to shape to fit inside the barrel.

The bottom barrel is designed to print in two pieces - the main barrel itself, and a front vent piece that caps off an underslung chamber. I separated these into two components to make printing that chamber easier, because the alternative was having supports inside the part that would be a pain to remove.

I sliced my models to print at 100 micron (.1mm) resolution. They fit right onto the nerf guns straight off the print bed. If you slice these at a larger resolution (i.e. .2 or .3mm) you may have to do some sanding to get a proper fit.

ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS BELOW...

So I have 49 days until New York Comic Con 2014, by my count. Previous years, I have gone as the Rocketeer. This year, I've decided Star Lord was going to be the costume of choice, partly because I loved the daylights out of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and partly because the wonderful community at TheRPF has been releasing some great 3d files for me to play around with on my printers.

I'm an attorney by day, so my time to do prop-making is kind of limited. My office is adjacent to an architect that I have befriended. They had a Makerbot Replicator 2 in their office that wasn't working, and one day in March I offered to fix it for them if they'd let me use it periodically. I got it running for them in short order, and they've hardly ever used it since, which has left it free for me to tool around with. After a month or two of having access to it, I also bought a 3d printer for my home, because I was enjoying it so much - a Makergear M2, which is hands-down the nicest 3d printer I have ever, ever used. As such, at any given time, I usually have two printers going making various stuff for me to play around with after my usually-long workdays are over!

I also have serious project ADD, so you'll see me bouncing all over different parts of the build as my whims dictate. Hopefully I will get stuff done in time!

I'll start with the mask, since it's the part I expect most of you have seen a lot of. Most people have been printing these files at 88% scale - I've been printing mine at 90% scale, mostly because I have a bigger head. Before I did that, I used a Kinect and my laptop to 3d scan my head so I had a rough volumetric approximation, and then pieced the parts together in 3d Studio Max to make sure it'd fit:

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It should be an okay fit. It looks like it has a bit of extra room at the front and back, and might be a little tight on the sides, but I figure I'll get it assembled and if I need to, I will use a heat gun to gently flex the curvature on the sides out a bit more, which should also result in bringing the front and back a bit closer together.

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The files that @Helagak released have been great, but do require a bit of work to get together. I wouldn't have been able to build this mask without him posting them up, though, so I am eternally grateful. I've been printing these with my Makergear M2 at .1mm resolution, which is reasonably fine, if a bit slow. The material they are made of is PLA, because I find ABS prints to be a bit cagey to work with without warping. If everything goes well, I'm anticipating making a mold and resin cast of the thing down the line for proper wear.

I've been using ApoxieSculpt to join the back seams of the parts after I superglue bits together. Apoxiesculpt is also my go-to touchup putty of choice for work on props, since I find Bondo messy.

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My lovely assistant helping to sand and sculpt one of the seams down. She's much better at sculpting than I am, but I'm wasting her talents on simple stuff like this. Still, it's nice to have company while I work.

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That'll come along on its own. More interesting might be the blasters. I started with a pair of the Nerf blasters, as many people have. I looked at 'em and considered how I wanted to handle it, since a simple repaint seemed like it wasn't enough. In my past experience at conventions, they frowned on working dart blasters, so right away I decided I could gut the guns and remove the firing mechanisms to buy a bit of space on the insides for me to play around with. To be more screen-accurate, the front and back sections of the outer shells of the gun should be connected, whereas the Nerf gun has a space in between with a bunch of plastic molded wiring detail. I will say I really liked the physicality of how the blasters opened up when you pulled the secondary trigger - the top and bottom guards on the gun fan out. This is a detail that never, ever happens during the movie, as far as I can tell, but it is really cool, and I liked the explanation in my head that maybe they would open up in such a fashion if they overheated from too much firing.

This was the first change - making it so that the tops and bottoms of the guns would be one piece, while still retaining the ability to open up. The concept:

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An intact blaster, and the gutted pieces:

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I've been cutting and shaping a plastic spacer to make the front and back orange sections into a single piece. I will be attaching them together shortly, then bondo'ing the whole thing and doing a lot of sanding to make sure they're strong and smooth.

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I also cut the front end of the top barrel up so that I could extend a more screen-accurate tip out past the top guard. I'll probably model this tip up and 3d print it down the line.

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Removing the actual nerf-dart firing pieces bought me a decent amount of space inside the guns, so I decided I wanted to add lights and sound to the blasters. The lights are simple enough - tuck some batteries in, and put an LED on a switch. The sound is a bit more complicated. The solution I've decided to go with are BigDawgs USB Multipush circuits.

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They have an eBay account where you can get their product slightly cheaper - I bought three units because I figured I'd use them on something. They're designed for greeting cards and hobby applications, and they looked small enough that I could probably get away with fitting one inside the guns. The fact that they have the ability to play 5 sounds on 5 different buttons is not lost on me - I'm going to hopefully design these so that pulling the trigger plays blaster audio, and the secondary trigger that fans the gun open will play an 'overheating' sound. I might go for a third, if I can figure out how, that will play when the gun closes back up. Aiming high, I guess. The coin cell batteries are going to have to be replaced with something with a bit more longevity, though!

Last bit produced so far is the boot rockets, which are courtesy of @xMENNENx and the files that he generously released. I printed these on the Makerbot Replicator 2 at the architect's office. Still churning out a couple parts in my spare time, but these print quick and easy.

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I had some lego turbines, and just on a lark I've started tucking them into the intake end of the rockets as an extra detail because, well, why not? I'm going to hopefully put some LEDs in the exhaust end of the boot rockets so I can light myself up for the sake of saying I did.

As far as the rest of the costume is concerned, I'm probably going to suck it up and buy the fjackets version of the Star Lord jacket, but in real leather so I can put it to dual use as a regular riding jacket for my motorcycle. The pants I haven't figured out a satisfactory solution for yet, but I might be looking for a seamstress to help me create 'em from scratch so they're close enough to screen accurate not to nag me.

More hopefully tomorrow as I continue assembly with the little time I have.

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thats just what im doing also.....to the rockets...red leds from the output....batteries in the boots....
 
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Those came out great! In an early, unreleased, version of the model I actually had put some turbines in the intake but figured they'd make the print too complicated and messy. Glad to see Legos work though!
 
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Those came out great! In an early, unreleased, version of the model I actually had put some turbines in the intake but figured they'd make the print too complicated and messy. Glad to see Legos work though!

Can't thank you enough for making the files available, honestly. The only thing I'm thinking, as I work on these, is that instead of the base plate I've got that the rocket parts all attach to, I might model something up with a bit more of a curve to it so that it sits better on the side of the leg, and put some slits in the plate for straps that can go around the ankles and hold the plate on. 'Course, I might not even need those straps by the time I get to working on the boots, assuming I can figure out a better way of sticking these things on my legs!

I wanted to see if I could figure out a way to key the controls for the boots to the buttons he pushes on his legs to activate them in the movie, too, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
 
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Awesome thread! I'll be subscribing!

And yes, thanks xMENNENx for the files, I will be printing them soon!
 
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Still picking support structures out of this thing, but hey, I have two halves now!



And they're hollow, so I can put a glowing Infinity Gem inside! But that'll come after cleanup. I figure I'll magnetize the two halves next.

On the audio front, I just got my delivery of the circuits...



... looks promising. I need to figure out a better power source for them, but right now I'm digging around the internet to see if I can come up with the appropriate audio files for the blaster firing so I can load the audio onto the chips before I start looking at embedding them in the guns.
 
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I missed you, Weekend. Where have you been the last few days? I have a bit of time to work on stuff now, so here goes:



Original audo circuit on left, mine on right. I figured out the points to jump power across and used 3xAA batteries to replace the 3 1.5v coin cells, just to test. Still works.



Now that I know where to attach power to, the problem was figuring out what I could get away with inside the guns. I contemplated buying a rechargeable battery and putting it in a permanent position inside the gun with a plug somewhere on the outside that I could charge it at. Ultimately, though, I opted to go for disposable batteries for this one for two reasons: size concerns, and the ability to keep the guns working on the move at a convention. Last time I brought something with a powered element to the con, I used hard-to-source 12v batteries, and when they died on me mid-show it was a huge bummer. I want something I can easily find, replace, and continue on with my way with.

Which is why, when I noticed one spot fit a 9v battery rather cozily, my work was done:



I dremelled out the back of the upper handle and started to build a battery enclosure for a 9v in that space, being careful not to interfere with the moving parts that cause the gun hinge to move.





I had to pad the inside sides of the gun to keep the battery from jigglin' left and right, and while I was at it, I felt like putting a bit of extra detail in those capsule-shaped holes by the battery was a good start. I scoured my workshed for something that would work as a detail piece, looking in particular for mesh, until I found this instead:



Since I had a bunch of these, why not? I cut it, straightened it out, glued the back and clamped it to the plastic for about ten minutes while the glue dried.



I put a scrap piece of plastic in the clamp with it so as not to end up damaging the visible exterior surface with the 'teeth' texture on the clamp. When all's said and done...



For the rest of the gun, I filled in the remainder of the gap between front and back halves with plastic and then bondo'd roughly over it just to get that process started. I'm letting it dry for now, eating lunch, and then going back into the breach to see how much more I can get done today.




With regards to the audio the blasters will be playing, I think I have my solution. Star Lord is a playable character in the free-to-play game Marvel Heroes, so I've gone ahead and ripped the audio files of his blaster and other attacking sound effects from the game to .mp3 format, which I will load onto the chip in short order. Not necessarily screen-accurate, perhaps, but certainly canonically consistent! :D
 
Re: Guardians of the Galaxy: Star Lord with lights and sound.

how about posting the audio files here for thosr that wanna follow you..
 
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I had to pad the inside sides of the gun to keep the battery from jigglin' left and right, and while I was at it, I felt like putting a bit of extra detail in those capsule-shaped holes by the battery was a good start. I scoured my workshed for something that would work as a detail piece, looking in particular for mesh, until I found this instead:

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Since I had a bunch of these, why not? I cut it, straightened it out, glued the back and clamped it to the plastic for about ten minutes while the glue dried.

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I put a scrap piece of plastic in the clamp with it so as not to end up damaging the visible exterior surface with the 'teeth' texture on the clamp. When all's said and done...

What are these things called? I like what you're doing with the element guns, and I plan on doing the same thing one of these days, but I don't know what those are called.
 
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What are these things called? I like what you're doing with the element guns, and I plan on doing the same thing one of these days, but I don't know what those are called.

Hose clamps.

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Gratuitous, but I had to make sure everything was still capable of moving! More body work to go.
 
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Great work on the blasters and thanks for posting the information on the usb sound board.

This video on youtube shows a guy using vaping cartomizers to produce a smoke effect along with a mini aquarium pump. This is the latest progress video. I may try this in my build. It may be a cool effect for the overheating sound and blaster coming open (if everything could fit inside the gun):

Effect shown with his ironman build:
 
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Smoke is great, and I've bookmarked that for some ghostbusters stuff I'd like to do down the line, but there just isn't enough room in the gun to have it do everything. :p As is, I'm struggling to make the lights, motion, and sound all come across intact. I'm about to buy a handful of smaller speakers to replace the ones that come with the audio circuits I've bought, as the stock speakers are too big to comfortably hide in the gun.
 
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Started rough assembly of the Star Lord helmet print and I've encountered some issues. I may have made it a bit too big, but I usually have trouble getting my giant noggin' into things. Side-to-side, it fits snugly, no issues; the problem is front to back, where I have way too much room.







I'm thinking the best course of action is to use my heat gun to flex the sides out a little bit so it's not as miserably snug on me side-to-side, and then to cut both sides of the mask in front of the earpiece and remove an inch or two of material, then stick it back together and resculpt the hell out of the seam. Not thrilled that I have to do this - I could just reprint the helmet - but that'd be like 10+ days of printing just to get back to where I'm at.


In the mean time, I fashioned a more screen-accurate tip for the quad blaster that plugs into the old nerf gun barrel. Printing it now to check for scale!


 
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Wow. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous of your ability to print some of these things.
 
Re: Guardians of the Galaxy: Star Lord with lights and sound.

Wow. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous of your ability to print some of these things.

It's expensive to own and run one of these things, but I work a lot during the day, and the money I spend on having a printer running while I'm at the office lets me be more efficient with my time. I can set something up to print, go to work, come home, and pick up where I left off with a new part to play around with. :D

Speaking of which...









First test of the gun barrel looks okay. It's a hair shorter than I intended, and I noticed a couple things that could be improved, so I went back into 3d Studio and just tweaked some of the dimensions - added a tiny bit of length to the end, moved the ribbing down, and resized the holes in the bottom to take LEDs properly.

The ribbing on it is a detail I've kind of abstracted from the reference images marvel has made available. It seems to only be on the right gun, and on the barrel shroud instead of the barrel itself, but whatever, I'm working a tiny bit loosely with the visuals to get the same effect across.







I think this is the final version of the barrel plug I'll need, so I figured I'd make it available for anyone else trying to do the same thing to their nerf guns. Note they only fit if you drill out the front of the top barrel cover like I have on mine!

http://www.fusedcreations.com/adam/starlord_nerf_top_barrel_extension.STL
 
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Oh wow, love the idea of the "plug" for the Nerf gun. Awesome!
 

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