Everyone visiting the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition in London - be sure to look up to the ceiling in the 2001 section.
Way up high, in front of the enormous Discovery One, is my hyperdetailed and minuscule model of an EVA pod. Probably the tiniest exhibit on show!
The model has working headlights and a HAL light (ringed in black and underpowered to avoid the bright red light that people often put in) and is powered by the magnet wires used to suspend it.
I wanted to transform the model of the Discovery which, while awesome, looked kind of static before. By adding the tiny pod, its headlights illuminating the command sphere, I felt the Discovery could look more like a diorama, portraying a narrative.
Designed from scratch, 3D printed, and laboriously hand-built and painted by yours truly.
Not quite finished in this shot. My 65mm tall pod is missing the handmade decals, the LEDs, and the headlight lenses at this point.
A last-minute change to the pod installation was the addition of my 3D-printed Frank Poole.
Of course I realized after I'd installed him that I'd put Frank on backwards - his head was on the right side in the movie, not the left. So I had to go back and turn him around before the show opened.
The pod next to Scott Alexander's model of the Discovery One.
Part of the reason the model took 4 months to build is because I made a full lightable interior for it. Almost all of the interior buttons are in their correct locations.
Unfortunately I dropped the interior from the model for the Design Museum in the end, because it interfered with maintenance and people couldn't see it anyway. But the main thing was I needed to make sure that I could get into the pod (the sides are held in with magnets) and replace any LEDs that might burn out, as the exhibition is on through to September.
Hopefully that won't happen, as LEDs are pretty long-lasting and each one is on a separate 15 mA current regulator. But you never know what might happen.
Way up high, in front of the enormous Discovery One, is my hyperdetailed and minuscule model of an EVA pod. Probably the tiniest exhibit on show!
The model has working headlights and a HAL light (ringed in black and underpowered to avoid the bright red light that people often put in) and is powered by the magnet wires used to suspend it.
I wanted to transform the model of the Discovery which, while awesome, looked kind of static before. By adding the tiny pod, its headlights illuminating the command sphere, I felt the Discovery could look more like a diorama, portraying a narrative.
Designed from scratch, 3D printed, and laboriously hand-built and painted by yours truly.
Not quite finished in this shot. My 65mm tall pod is missing the handmade decals, the LEDs, and the headlight lenses at this point.
A last-minute change to the pod installation was the addition of my 3D-printed Frank Poole.
Of course I realized after I'd installed him that I'd put Frank on backwards - his head was on the right side in the movie, not the left. So I had to go back and turn him around before the show opened.
The pod next to Scott Alexander's model of the Discovery One.
Part of the reason the model took 4 months to build is because I made a full lightable interior for it. Almost all of the interior buttons are in their correct locations.
Unfortunately I dropped the interior from the model for the Design Museum in the end, because it interfered with maintenance and people couldn't see it anyway. But the main thing was I needed to make sure that I could get into the pod (the sides are held in with magnets) and replace any LEDs that might burn out, as the exhibition is on through to September.
Hopefully that won't happen, as LEDs are pretty long-lasting and each one is on a separate 15 mA current regulator. But you never know what might happen.
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