Recent content by epoxinator

Unlike those, mine are radially symmetrical. I wanted "perfect" ones, because I am anal that way, and because I don't want people to mistake these for production copies.

5 colors. The colored ones have mirrored mylar on the back. Because I snapped a few in half pressing them into my palm I have given them a little more thickness. Turns out it also has a better look with the reflective backing than the thinner ones. Oh, and I've been using 2-part resin rather...

I finally discovered UV-hardening resin. I tried to do the 2-part casting resin in the mold I had 3D-printed. I added red pigment powder that I had on-hand, but it made the crystal I cast opaque. Plus the resin stuck to the mold badly, and I had to pry them out when they were still soft to...

In the meantime, I've finished and painted bronze the head for the Morlock Sphinx. I've been tinkering with "body" designs for the building to which the head will be attached. I don't want to make it too big, and I don't want to make it look like a ruin. I'm wondering if I should make the body...

It's been a while since I've worked on these Time Machine elements. Had a bit of a direction change on the Eloi dome. I found a MUCH simpler version of the building on a film poster. I'm thinking that the dome can be a section of a hemisphere. I found a 6-inch diameter dome online, from which I...

Now real. A lifeclock positive and a 5X5 grid lifeclock negative mold. Printed through Shapeways. A shot of a lifeclock in my palm, then with aluminum foil in pack. A shot of the mold, and the a couple more of the mold, and then with quick-and-dirty pressed-in sculpy copies.

More renders, this time with simulated reflective backing.

3D render beauty shot all 5 colors.

Made another revision to the crystal. I had remembered Calico 1997's photo of the caliper measuring a crystal, in fact, I used those measurements for the final size. However, in looking at the photo again, I decided that the edges of my 3D model might be too steep. I scaled down the facet in the...

The ones I have seen usually come in a set of 5. Clear, yellow, green, red and black. I bought two sets in the 90's that had six, one being blue. That was a nod to one of the colors in the book.

I've seen that Arcade Hand cutout gun holder. In my opinion it's kind of too busy, and competes with the gun. Below was my thought for an interesting base, inspired by the lifeclock room where the computer also examines and destroys runner personal effects.

I haven't looked into batteries lately, but I wonder if there are batteries small enough now to fit within a palmcrystal and provide the power for an LED without needing to make the piece itself thicker. Plus the current flat batteries themselved might be reflective enough that you wouldn't need...

A long time after this thread ended, a facebook member of a group I belonged to mentioned making a 3D print of a palm crystal. I dug up the one I was working on for this thread, and after ironing out some bugs and rebuilding from ground up, I sent him an STL output. He had a friend with a...

Your method of wrapping with tape is the solution for how they did Box's head in the film: they covered the head piece of the costume with little pieces of metallized tape.

Oh, very nice. Sorry: I've been away.