Jigsaw's Hand-held Micro-Cassette Player BUILD

[SlasherCrafter]

I have self-argued in the past over whether or not to buy a pre-existing Panasonic RN-305 as a base for my plan, but decided not to for keeping my expenses low, so I have been working on a 3D-modelled CLAMSHELL of the RN-305 Micro-cassette recorder, using actual pictures, basically, to help retrace EVERYTHING, every shape and every detail into my recreation of the prop seen in the SAW franchise. I DO have plans for it to be functional as a "Tape Player" but the recorder's shell is going to actually encase more modern tech, (Digital Recording) as opposed to using a micro-cassette, which are not much in demand, unfortunately, in my opinion. I may be over-thinking it here, but I will see about having an actual cassette look like it's playing in the player, like, putting a little motor inside to move the "transport-pegs" so recorder looks like it's playing, but it's actually from the player itself with a push of a button, tape or no tape and the tape can be eject-able. There is still a lot of work to be done on the 3D model, before I can 3D print it, but I will leave a screenshot of what's done so far. I hope you enjoyed my post!

 

[SlasherCrafter]

Jigsaw's Hand-Held Micro-Cassette player UPDATE #1: I just got more adjusting done on the 3D-recreated tape player's clamshell housing since I made my last post about it yesterday at 5:31 AM. The adjustments that were made were adding some of the contours that the actual RN-305 player had, particularly near the Microphone jack, I think? And for those who weren't aware what modelling software I've been using, it's in Blender. I've also added the embossed boxed texts on the back of the clamshell, right down to the "Made in Japan" text, which I think is kind of unnecessary, in hindsight, but would probably bug me if I didn't, darn my OCD. Here are screenshots of the progress. P.S. I don't know how accurate the final model will be in terms of the contour placement, but I am trying my best.