007 Thunderball rebreather - 3D print - Finished

[ajaxjones]

I'm embarking on a mini project to make up a rebreather from 007's outing in Thunderball. I'm basing it on finding some of the cylinders discarded by the local 'yoof' who seem to have a fascination for making whipped cream late at night in car parks

I also found a fairly OK art rendition of it as well on grabcad 3D CAD Model Collection | GrabCAD Community Library

 

[8 perf]

Nice. Good luck with this. I did one a few years back as a gift for a friend who is a huge 007 fan. What the renders above do not show is the white 'checkered' section of the top of the cylinders. Your images show only the black when in actuality they are black and white alternating at 90 degrees. A quick google image search will show what I mean.
I had to guess at the sizes for mine and extrapolate the dimensions so it would fit inside the cigar tube and drew everything in Sketchup for STL output and 3d printing of the parts in the middle. After painting, I had to repaint it since my source images were a bit off in color. More a gray color than a blue.

Here is a pic of mine. Happy re-breathing.

 

[ajaxjones]

very nice, emphasis required is that they are not my pics, they are from Lysandre on grabcad. I've googled a lot so far and there are a plenty of variations out there. I havent been able to find a cigar tube, other than a full box of them. I'm probably not going to use that. I've got the film lined up for this evening

 

[8 perf]

Looks like you're well on your way. I got my cigar tube (and cigar) at a local cigar/ tobaconist shop. They were more than willing to sell me just one from their humidor. May be one in your town.

 

[ajaxjones]

After some hefty screen grabbing, I'm well on my way to redesigning The tangs are definitely squared off and not tapered , there is only one slot hole in the base and the legs are thicker too. I like the way the movie is cut from handing him the one that probably fits in the tube easily and with the black base to the cutaway that has the blue base for the close up.

 

[ajaxjones]

Also I see that the regulator dial is not flush on the flange and there is a boss under that before the flange

 

[ajaxjones]

Happier with the top now, its got a bit more meat in it and square fins like the movie version

 

[ajaxjones]

Reworked the base and mouthpiece now as well, looks a bit more to scale and approaching more the movie version. Will be priming, filling and sanding and having second thoughts now about making some cylinders (defeating the original idea of using some found ones)

 

[ajaxjones]

Next step is to give this a bit of a file and a sanding and then primer. i used to use the normal halfords filler primer, but it never really worked well for me, but I'm now using another brand of theirs called high build primer. It works a lot better and dries a lot quicker as well.

A bit of light sanding on this with some 800 grit and 1500 and then a final coat of primer and sanding again with 1500

 

[ajaxjones]

So in the end I went with sketching up some tanks as well and printed them off in ABS as the hatchbox i have takes a sanding quite well.
For some reason the internal bracing was showing through, so i had to print those seperate and glue them in. Also had to set the seam to random so as not to get vertical seam lines as well.

 

[ajaxjones]

Started to put some paint on, Molotow chrome onto the valve assembly and then will spray over that with Tamiya clear orange once it dries , and the cylinders have their black/white tops

 

[ajaxjones]

Finished up with the painting , apart from a minor mod to the files, I'm calling this one done.

 

[Topgun1984]

Nice build looking really good any chance of sharing files/ selling? I would like to build one for my James bond display