"Kardia Mechanicus"

[ejectorhead]

Hi. I'm new here. Ive been looking around the rpf for about a year and finally got the possibility to register a few months back.

I made this as a gift to my girlfriend for valentines. She is really into the whole industrial look of things, and this gift went all the way home.
Took me about 3 months to build on my spare time. Everything is completely scratch built, except for the basic heart shape, witch was an acrylic candy thing. And the cogs that I ripped out of an old cd-rom.
The cogs spin and the lights, well, light up.
The heart section has built in magnets to keep it secured to the base.
There are a few things I'm not satisfied with, there is a rather sharp line were the two heartshapes connects, but I don't dare opening the thing again to fix it. And I messed a bit with the epoxy glue under one of the aluminum plates.

More images of this can be found here.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Rhett J Martin]

WOW. Visions of Kroen dance through my head.
i'd kill to see a "brain"
Nice work.

 

[SmilingOtter]

Very cool.

 

[hollywoodhardware]

Beautiful.

Thomas

 

[juno]

If a guy gave me that for Valentine's day, we'd end up married.

How about some construction details? How'd you do it?

 

[ejectorhead]

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for your kind words.

I made most of the design up as I built this thing. Started out with the cogs inside the heart, (ripped them out of two cd-roms, as I said earlier). Painted them up, and started on the layering on the heart shape. First off I masked off the pattern that I wanted to be clear, and started building the shapes with plastic strips.
When I was satisfied, I added fine sand to represent rust, and to cover up where I messed up with the glue.
Spray painted everything grey, dry brushed everything with several coats of white. I had planned to paint the sand brown-redish, but decided against it.
Wired up some LEDs, and mounted everything together.

The base was also designed as I built it, my first plan was just to have the brass arms come out of the round plexiglas plate. But it looked too simple, so I added the 3 aluminum plates and screwed everything together with brass tubing as spacers.

Thanks again.

 

[chibigear]

That looks great.. Good job there.