I have a small heads-up for y'all on that shell. The place I get my electronics from (ELFA) have that same part but in two different variants for different cable thicknesses. One is for 28mm cables and the other is for 17mm.
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I have a small heads-up for y'all on that shell. The place I get my electronics from (ELFA) have that same part but in two different variants for different cable thicknesses. One is for 28mm cables and the other is for 17mm.
I'm pretty positive that the one we want is the 17mm.
I concur.
Also... I've spent the evening scouring the net for centrifuge tubes. Now, I'm guessing that the fingertips are somewhere around 34-37mm OD width. There are c-tubes available around the same size and I'm thinking a glass retailer would be able to cut them down to size for a small fee.
I'm considering modeling most of the metal parts and having them rapid prototyped. Since it's going to be weathered, it'll still look good and none of the metal parts are "grip" areas so there's no "feel" lost from having them in plastic.
Also... I've spent the evening scouring the net for centrifuge tubes. Now, I'm guessing that the fingertips are somewhere around 34-37mm OD width. There are c-tubes available around the same size and I'm thinking a glass retailer would be able to cut them down to size for a small fee.
I'm considering modeling most of the metal parts and having them rapid prototyped. Since it's going to be weathered, it'll still look good and none of the metal parts are "grip" areas so there's no "feel" lost from having them in plastic.
I'm quite sure that I've found the small motor gear. It's pinion wire (exactly how they would have found such a gear) which means, for the uninitiated, that the gear teeth are machined along a long piece of brass, and you can cut the gears you need. This one is pretty exactly what I spec'd from the close up photos I had.
https://sdp-si.com/estore/PartDetail.asp?Opener=Group&PartID=441&GroupID=439
Here's a screenshot.
Hey- if you have some stuff done in 3d printing, I'd go in on that with you. PM me.
https://sdp-si.com/estore/PartDetail.asp?Opener=Group&PartID=441&GroupID=439
Here's a screenshot.
Hey- if you have some stuff done in 3d printing, I'd go in on that with you. PM me.
Thought I might chime in... It looks to me as though the braided wires on the forearm (as opposed to the ones on the backside of the hand) are some form of an engine ground strap. The ones on the backside of the hand are tube-like whereas the ones on the forearm are flat. Here is a pic of what I mean.
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i don't know if this has been posted on this thread, but here is a vid of the props and costumes being made for hellboy. they feature the mechglove some in it too, being built and working.
they show the glove starting at 5:35 i am not sure if this is in the special features on the DVD.
YouTube - HellBoy - Bastidores
they show the glove starting at 5:35 i am not sure if this is in the special features on the DVD.
YouTube - HellBoy - Bastidores
I agree with darkside, on the earth straps, the others obviously contain the wires for running the lights on the hand it saves putting them separately inside the glove. The braiding on the cables attached to the weird valve doohickey on the cuff is most likely PET braided sleeve unless they went old school with some cotton.
I was also wondering if those 4 metal attachments on the spinner and the one on the wrist are found items, they look like NRV's or the male side of a hose quick connect.
I was also wondering if those 4 metal attachments on the spinner and the one on the wrist are found items, they look like NRV's or the male side of a hose quick connect.
Agreed. I think that the wires above the wrist are in fact, housings, when all below seem, I think Darkside is correct, to be 1/8" grounding.
I've made a diagram for clarity.
(I love diagrams, can ya tell?)
I've made a diagram for clarity.
(I love diagrams, can ya tell?)
Here's another diagram for clarity. Of all the terms I'm using to describe things.
And here's some of the research I did today.
And here's some of the research I did today.
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You dirty dog! You got to hold the actual prop! I'm unbelievably jealous...
The diagram is fantastic and will be a huge help- thanks so much!! I thought those were frogs in there but I wasn't 100% sure. So tubes 1,2,3,4 are actual vacuum tubes that have been modified? Does tube 7 have anything else in it other than the orange liquid?
There's an electronics surplus shop by me that has tons of old vacuum tubes- I might have to go have a poke around.
I'm also planning on 3d printing a lot of my parts- as soon as I finish my printer/CNC- http://multi-bot.blogspot.com
IDK... if you watch the video on youtube (YouTube - HellBoy - Bastidores look at 6:00), you can see that the tube filled with liquid seemed to move around. Was the final product actually filled with liquid? In the YT video it looked more like some kind of gel. It looks like it has a strange sheen to it as if there is something else in there moving around so you can see that the gel is moving. Maybe a bunch of metallic flakes or something like that. Something is pushing the gel around.
Superb diagrams!
Tube 7 looks like it has some sort of mass with runs on it... not unlike those on the RHOD.
Haha... I never even saw that frog in there.
I was actually thinking of starting a 3D model of the Scorpion Box soon and see where it goes from there. Might even give it a go this weekend. The only thing I see being a little difficult to model would be the knurling that most of the parts have.
Tube 7 looks like it has some sort of mass with runs on it... not unlike those on the RHOD.
Haha... I never even saw that frog in there.
I was actually thinking of starting a 3D model of the Scorpion Box soon and see where it goes from there. Might even give it a go this weekend. The only thing I see being a little difficult to model would be the knurling that most of the parts have.
All the tubes were custom blown glass.
Tubes one and two have, inside them, the guts from a real vacuum tube.
Tubes three and four have a construction of etched brass from model train supplies in them.
Tube 7 is filled with a liquid, I think something like the liquid that's in those bouncy balls filled with the liquid that has something metallic in it.
IN an earlier incarnation, tube 7 had a sphere in it with designs drawn on it that were not dissimilar from RHOD.
I think the three bus-bars are black delrin.
The cages are custom machined.
The Millenbaugh Motivator is named after the machinist that built it. It's truly a little masterpiece of engineering.
I went by Spectral Motion yesterday and everyone was incredibly nice. I spent about 2 hours there getting a tour.
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Tubes one and two have, inside them, the guts from a real vacuum tube.
Tubes three and four have a construction of etched brass from model train supplies in them.
Tube 7 is filled with a liquid, I think something like the liquid that's in those bouncy balls filled with the liquid that has something metallic in it.
IN an earlier incarnation, tube 7 had a sphere in it with designs drawn on it that were not dissimilar from RHOD.
I think the three bus-bars are black delrin.
The cages are custom machined.
The Millenbaugh Motivator is named after the machinist that built it. It's truly a little masterpiece of engineering.
I went by Spectral Motion yesterday and everyone was incredibly nice. I spent about 2 hours there getting a tour.
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That's awesome.
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Cant really add to the discussion but those pics were awesome. Why the hell didnt he dial in C'Thulu instead of Hellboy!??!
Have they got rid of the engraved glass that Mignola did for tube 7? And does the tube have a small motor to froth up the orange liquid?
.:MirrorminD:. Hellboy gets you 7 old gods for the price of 1.
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.:MirrorminD:. Hellboy gets you 7 old gods for the price of 1.
cheerio
I stand corrected then
That central rod works like a crankshaft, the rounded "valves" fit into black plastic arms that are pivoted at their center. They have an open slot at their end that goes around the crankshaft, and when that shaft turns, it rocks the plastic arms up and down on their pivot.
Super beautiful mechanism
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