Modelling the Elysium Carlyle Droid SMG

[scornflake]

Rear sight done. I've made the rear and front detachable so you could put some coloured sheet in there, then glue it closed. The small square thing a the back is a very small insertable clamp. The front is inset, allowing for accurate placement. There's a 0.03mm gap on the inserts.

 

[scornflake]

Clamp now tidied up, lining up with the lower rounded slot in the gun body. Also, it's intended to be printed in two parts, and bolted together using M3's.

 

[Tuckanator]

Wow! phenomenal work on this. I just caught back up on the thread and see all this progress and nearing completion .

As for the assembly/whether to use bolts etc - Tmax's awesome District 9 3d print kits just had one long internal horizontal hole. For a long dowel rod to be glued inside. Imo I would suggest that method over trying to utilise the screw holes already designed into the model. I think its easier so the model could be sliced to suit any sized printer and still have a strong central core.

 

[scornflake]

Wow! phenomenal work on this. I just caught back up on the thread and see all this progress and nearing completion .

As for the assembly/whether to use bolts etc - Tmax's awesome District 9 3d print kits just had one long internal horizontal hole. For a long dowel rod to be glued inside. Imo I would suggest that method over trying to utilise the screw holes already designed into the model. I think its easier so the model could be sliced to suit any sized printer and still have a strong central core.

Thanks It's been a slog, but the recent progres has been good!

Yeh, I used the same idea (sorta) on my other D9 model. In that case I used a number of 60mm tubes. This time around I think I'll just shove two long ones down the entire spine. I'm on the fence re splitting it in half (left <-> right). That's what the existing props look like, I'm guessing cos of how they are made. However doing that means I *would* need to come up with some other way to join them, which is kinda poo-ish. I like the tube/rod idea, a lot.

 

[scornflake]

Gonna go 10mm tubes. It'll help make it super simple to line everything up.

Something like this. Just gotta get the "rear thingie" attached to the handle, and the trigger block attache to the main body.
The cuts shown below are 195mm each. The front handle DOES bolt on, as does the rear stock, and also the rear "thingies" (behind the rear handle). Those items bolt on so you just don't have to think about it. Standard metric fittings. The rest of those can now be "mocked" using m3 4mm or similar, and just glued into the holes that are already in the model.

 

[scornflake]

Prob overkill, has slotted m3 nut inserts.

 

[scornflake]

Finishing touches to the sight, with m1.4 screws to fix the front sight plate to the sight body.

I'm intending that for FDM, the sight is printed from the REAR face (with supports), this one:

All internals are structured such that no supports are requires for anything other than the first part. Something like this:

 

[scornflake]

Now with added charge handle! (i.e: er, actually finishing it?). Chucked in a slot near the split, so can even throw an M3 nut in there. In the cutaway, you can also see that there's room for 2 x 16mm tubes, through the entire body.

 

[scornflake]

More stuff I forgot: a) the knob thingie. This part only seems to be on the droid SMGs. and b) a fake switch cos I havn't got a real one

I've sized the switch for something in reality, but there's no internal wiring channels or anything. Unsure if I'll put some kind of laser in the sight on make the gun go "zweeeeeeep".

 

[scornflake]

With painting/creating taking a while, with various problems, and some time on my hands... I've put a bit into thinking about a wall mount.
This is very much a work in progress:

The idea is to do something with "pistons". You can see there's a mount point on the yellow part, which would connect to a lower mount point on the grey (wall) part. There's another mount point somewhat hidden (back of yellow, to the 2nd grey mount point). I've yet to do the RHS. The idea is based on the exoskeleton.

Backplate itself has 3 x 5mm holes. Suitable for a mount to a wall (e.g: plaster wall plugs).

 

[scornflake]

Hahahha. This is what happens when you spend WAY to long with various parts (looking at YOU mr handle) hidden:

 

[scornflake]

And, something like this:

I just liked the idea of ball joints.
They are however completely fixed (otherwise the thing would just collapse). Which might drive some people nuts.

 

[joberg]

Wow...that looks complicated alright

 

[scornflake]

Ohhh. It is I've since keyed everything, so that I can assembly the pistons separately (so that I can also then paint them independently).

If I did it again I'd do three mount points, but it does work. It'll be better-er when it's all glued together.

Each ball joint has a unique key:

and each joint is also keyed into its piston/cylinder