Harry Potter - Golden Snitch - DH version, Opening snitch modelling

[bennygorilla]

Ah, I was going off the largest dimension on shapeways models for my comparison, looke like it's a fair amount bigger.

That's odd you say that about the cast, cause my detailed ring shows errors for all materials except frosted detail plastic, but from experience the cast metals retained better detail than the plastic prints. Probably cause it's printed in wax first.

Your ring space is smaller? Wouldn't have guessed.

Yeah the ring space is smaller, annoyingly. I played around for ages. But I guess its the way the ring holder moves in the channel to raise up that takes away the space available. Oh well.

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[jailsoncordeiro]

OK, I took a slightly different course for the opening than in the movies, for printability, but i think i prefer it anyway:

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The 2 shells meet perfectly, there is a simple sliding hinge to make enough room for the shell to rotate inside the other:

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inside there is a strut and channel with which i use to raise the ring inside, its raises about 4mm currently:

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Here are some renders of the parts separated:

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The only thing i think I will struggle with is the ring falling out of the holder, but surely sugru will fix that??

What do you think?

Send the archive ?

 

[bennygorilla]

Send the archive ?

what do you mean?

Benny

 

[jailsoncordeiro]

what do you mean?

Benny

Can you send the Archive 3D ?

 

[bennygorilla]

oh right, it is available through shapeways.

Benny