justy
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Update: Completed at last!
I've followed this site for years and finally joined, I love it. I've built plenty of things over the years and I figured it's high time I documented it well enough to post on here.
I absolutely love the Back to the Future movies and have always wanted the Time Machine, sadly I can't afford a Delorean at the moment. So, I decided to make one. (But hey if anyone wants to donate one I wouldn't turn you down haha
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For now I will make due with what I've got: a 1988 Buick Regal. It isn't a delorean and this is probably a dumb idea, but I'm crazy enough to give it a try. It is 2015 after all and I've wanted to do this for probably 15 years now.
I got started by doing a quick and dirty Photoshop with a picture of the same model just to see if it would look even close.
The result wasn't completely far off so I moved onto something a little more high tech. I found a similar 3D model on sketchup and merged it with the parts that it needed to look like my favorite fictional masterpiece. From there I figured out the measurements and traced them onto some spare poster board with my projector. I tried to stay fairly close to my original digital guestimations.
The pink poster board was leftover from some stage props I built a year ago that needed to be a specific color in order to fluoresce under a blacklight. I TONS left over from the project and I am finally getting to the end of the pink ones haha. I cut everything out with scissors and tried it on for size on my car.
Not bad. Time to add some dimension to the thing so I traced out the other pieces and taped them together.
I'm still making up my mind on the materials to use and how to attach it to the car. I'm thinking a board strapped down like a bike rack would do the trick. And possibly building the vents out of MDF? It's a work in progress and something I've wanted to do since I was a kid.
In the meantime, while I was waiting for the rainy weather to clear up I 3D printed a DMC logo for the front of the car.
I'm still sanding and painting it, but here is what I have so far
I've followed this site for years and finally joined, I love it. I've built plenty of things over the years and I figured it's high time I documented it well enough to post on here.
I absolutely love the Back to the Future movies and have always wanted the Time Machine, sadly I can't afford a Delorean at the moment. So, I decided to make one. (But hey if anyone wants to donate one I wouldn't turn you down haha
...)For now I will make due with what I've got: a 1988 Buick Regal. It isn't a delorean and this is probably a dumb idea, but I'm crazy enough to give it a try. It is 2015 after all and I've wanted to do this for probably 15 years now.
I got started by doing a quick and dirty Photoshop with a picture of the same model just to see if it would look even close.
The result wasn't completely far off so I moved onto something a little more high tech. I found a similar 3D model on sketchup and merged it with the parts that it needed to look like my favorite fictional masterpiece. From there I figured out the measurements and traced them onto some spare poster board with my projector. I tried to stay fairly close to my original digital guestimations.
The pink poster board was leftover from some stage props I built a year ago that needed to be a specific color in order to fluoresce under a blacklight. I TONS left over from the project and I am finally getting to the end of the pink ones haha. I cut everything out with scissors and tried it on for size on my car.
Not bad. Time to add some dimension to the thing so I traced out the other pieces and taped them together.
I'm still making up my mind on the materials to use and how to attach it to the car. I'm thinking a board strapped down like a bike rack would do the trick. And possibly building the vents out of MDF? It's a work in progress and something I've wanted to do since I was a kid.
In the meantime, while I was waiting for the rainy weather to clear up I 3D printed a DMC logo for the front of the car.
I'm still sanding and painting it, but here is what I have so far
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