Hitchikers Guide: The Guide

[KevinD]

Just finished this scratchbuild of the Guide from the tv series of The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. The model is made from plasticard, perspex and milliput and contains the workings of a digital photo frame to give the different images on screen.

 

[Snow Builder]

Excellent!

 

[breen2057]

Nicely done, it looks great.

 

[userd1402]

Fantastic!

 

[MangyDog]

I was strangely hopeing it was going to be the movie book, i really liked that.... This is still really cool though

 

[nick daring]

I've always this version of the guide! Killer job!

 

[13doctorwho]

Really cool. Loved that miniseries!!

 

[B-Movie Zombie]

Great build!

 

[userd1402]

Any pictures of the build in progress?

 

[KevinD]

Sadly no, I used to document my builds but I've given up doing that generally.

 

[nick daring]

Next?

 

[KevinD]

Very tempting!

 

[LeoCor Replicas]

Always love seeing a replica of this version of the Guide! Fantastic work!

 

[KevinD]

Thanks very much.

 

[Bad Wolf]

that is too cool! great job!!

 

[KevinD]

Thank you, much appreciated.

 

[Teckno77]

Hey how did you build the case please I'd love to replicate this. Also did you use an arduino or RP for the system etc. Thanks

 

[Teckno77]

Just finished this scratchbuild of the Guide from the tv series of The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. The model is made from plasticard, perspex and milliput and contains the workings of a digital photo frame to give the different images on screen.
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[Teckno77]

Brilliant, what is plasticard though did you mould sheets of it into shape? Also where did you get the plans or dimensions from please assuming it wasnt just a guess from watching the show. If so bravo! I'd like to replicate this with a raspberry pi in for sound and actual function etc. Regards Dave

 

[KevinD]

Hi, Thanks. Plasticard is styrene sheet. I cut it into bits and superglue it into roughly the right shape. To get the effect of the slightly rounded edges (the original might well have been vacuum formed), I used milliput.
As for the dimensions, they were judged from on screen images, but not from the episodes, where oddly, it doesn't feature that much, but from the making of documentary on the dvd boxset, where it crops up a lot!