SO I kinda fell in love with this beauty over the holidays. The phaser rifle, built as a one-off for the second TOS pilot and then never filmed again. Only to reemerge at auction to sell for a quarter million dollars.
I dove into research and measurements. It wasn't long before I came upon Ryan Nagata's build here on the RPF. I'm stealing a couple tricks from him, but mostly charting my own path.
After building R2D2 I'm pretty comfortable boxing out complex forms in styrene so the bulk of the build will be sheet styrene. One new technique I used was to get the 2" diameter curves out of my styrene sheet I created a jig from a couple sizes of PVC pipe. I heated pieces of Styrene in my oven then pressed them between the two pieces to get a perfect curve.
My new job gave me access to a 3D printer, so a couple of the small bit will be 3-D printed.
I dove into research and measurements. It wasn't long before I came upon Ryan Nagata's build here on the RPF. I'm stealing a couple tricks from him, but mostly charting my own path.
After building R2D2 I'm pretty comfortable boxing out complex forms in styrene so the bulk of the build will be sheet styrene. One new technique I used was to get the 2" diameter curves out of my styrene sheet I created a jig from a couple sizes of PVC pipe. I heated pieces of Styrene in my oven then pressed them between the two pieces to get a perfect curve.
My new job gave me access to a 3D printer, so a couple of the small bit will be 3-D printed.
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