Cosmic Cube materials

I did a lot of research on this earlier in the year.

The closest I came was a 2" plexiglass cube that I had to polish.

I ran the idea past a few companies, but just the materials (no engraving of any kind) lobbed it upwards of 65$ a cube (before shipping to the US, youch)

The cube has been a few colors in the comics though. Red, yellow, always glowing. It was palm sized (a little smaller) in the later years though.

If you get any leads, please let me know. I would love to get one added to the collection o "weird marvel crap" that I have going on :)

Chris
 
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I did a lot of research on this earlier in the year.

The closest I came was a 2" plexiglass cube that I had to polish.

I ran the idea past a few companies, but just the materials (no engraving of any kind) lobbed it upwards of 65$ a cube (before shipping to the US, youch)

The cube has been a few colors in the comics though. Red, yellow, always glowing. It was palm sized (a little smaller) in the later years though.

If you get any leads, please let me know. I would love to get one added to the collection o "weird marvel crap" that I have going on :)

Chris
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Sure thing. Maybe someone will chime in with something.

Now what collection of weird Marvel crap do you have ?

I have Cap's Shield myself and a DC direct GL Mini-lantern. I am working on a motherbox (DC) and getting source material for the Ultimate Nullifer (marvel)
 
GMTA :)

When I started in the hobby I focused on comics as they were my best known medium for a while. If you need decent source material on the nullifier, check out FF #544(?). Whatever the newest issue is. Not only is it a good read, you get some great shots of it too :)

Working on a motherbox myself (in the doodling stages).

My comic "whatsis" stuff :

Iron mans helmet, Thors hammer, spideys 70s webshooter, blade stakes (do they count?), cosmic cube, infinity gems, soon to be infinity gauntlet :D , crapload of "kryptonite" (any color you want, i got), Green Lantern ring, XO Manowar control ring, Wolverines skull display, WIP wolverines forearm w/claws, WIP wolverine bone claws, custom Superman Returns costume/mannequin display, SR crystals, Superman crystals, kryptonite bullets (.45), lots of other stuff i can't really think of offhand and I don't wanna go catalog it right now :lol

I did have a kinda cool "whoa" moment though. I had picked up an extra blue Superman Returns crystal, and had it out on display, and my friend asked me where I got my Final Fantasy (12? i think) save crystal from :lol. Prop "crossovers" are always a hoot.

A cheap and kinda cool "prop" is out in the stores now, from spiderman 3. They make some sort of "venom ooze" (black goo basically) that is in a little specimen jar. Makes a nifty addition to anyones collection :)

Working on a cap shield, just waiting to hear back about the graphics.

Chris
 
Yeah, I've searched and searched for clear cubes, in the 3" range; nobody has anything, it's outrageously expensive, or they didn't want to talk. I pretty much gave up for the time being.

Only comics props I have are my GL Power Battery and an '89 batarang I still need to sand and paint. No Marvel stuff. I've had some trick arrows in the works, but I was thinking more Green Arrow instead of Hawkeye for those. Got a doughboy helmet to turn into a Jay Garrick Flash helmet, still looking for some decent wings. Have a steel pot to turn into Ultimate Cap's WWII helmet.

Would the Ant-Man helmet from my Marvel Legends action figure count as a life-size prop replica? :D

Jim
 
Would it be possible to make your own out of flat sheets of polycarbonate or something?

EDIT: Oh... if it needs to be solid, this won't work.
 
I haven't read much FF in my life, but.. aren't there supposed to be like bubbles in the cube? I think then it could be cast in clear resin, and you wouldn't even need a pressure chamber
 
It varied from artist to artist.

Sometimes it had little galaxies and planets in there, sometimes it just glowed a random color.

It all depends on who was drawing it and who had it in their hand. Thanos tended to have stuff in the cube, Red Skull tending to just have a shiny cube.

Chris
 
Adolph Hitler's (aka the Hate Monger) consciousness inhabited the cube for a time, and would occasionally manifest as an image of his head, and I think he was usually screaming. Sometimes there would be "Kirby dots" in it. Sometimes it was just shiny. Like it was said above, it varied.

Jim
 
Here you go. The cube is 3 inches wide from JMK Displays. A buddy and I put this display together a few years back.

Some pictures:

cube1.jpg

cube2.jpg


Here's my design for the nameplate:

cosmic_cube_final_1.jpg
 
This is a project I was considering doing a while back and I eventually let other things get in the way.

I could certainly cast some cubes in opaque resin. Clear is also doable but acrylic ones might look a little better.
 
It totally needs to be hit with some sand paper and displayed with a lighted base and a bell jar.

Would be super rad indeed.

Nick
 
Well I am going to give it a try, Thank you so much for the supplier.

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Adolph Hitler's (aka the Hate Monger) consciousness inhabited the cube for a time, and would occasionally manifest as an image of his head, and I think he was usually screaming. Sometimes there would be "Kirby dots" in it. Sometimes it was just shiny. Like it was said above, it varied.

Jim
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Love the "Kirby dots"..
 
I put my order in, I will let you know when it comes in. It was 17$ and the shipping was kinda high 11$.

Lets toss around some more ideas on how to finish it up. I liked a number of the ideas so far.
 
I like Nick's idea. I almost did something like he said but it was impractical for my space at the time and I was done spending money. You could give it a sanding for a frosted look and color each side different with a wash of paint. Or have a colored bulb in the lighted base.
 
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I like Nick's idea. I almost did something like he said but it was impractical for my space at the time and I was done spending money. You could give it a sanding for a frosted look and color each side different with a wash of paint. Or have a colored bulb in the lighted base.
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I'm just not too sure I could sand it and not mess it up. I am going to try the lighted base for sure.
 
I'm not so sure I'd sand it either. But a lighted base would be nice - maybe with a color-changing light source. Some yellow hazmat gloves along side it or something.

Jim
 
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I'm not so sure I'd sand it either. But a lighted base would be nice - maybe with a color-changing light source. Some yellow hazmat gloves along side it or something.

Jim
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I like the color change light source.
 
Still being new to all of this. But to give it that frosted look you can go to your local Hardware store i.e. HomeDepot and purchase a glass frosting kit. I know it is for glass but it is worth a shot and I am not sure if you can remove the frost if you don't like it b/c you are not actually altering the material itself just an out coating to make appear frosted.
 
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