Hi all, If any of you follow my videos on YouTube you may remember I announced that my next major project will be a working Stargate miniature model....
First I just want to say if any mods feel this is better in another sub forum by all means move it. I wasnt sure whether to put it here in Studio Scale Models or General or even Prop sub forum... Given that its still fairly large and being scratch built and not from a kit. I felt Studio Model is about right. Sure its not a 6 footer but its still fairly big
On and off for the past month and a bit, I've been working on a model of the stargate in fusion 360. This is based on various references I've found online, including the french teams full scale replicas thats been popular here. Focusing on the main visual details trying to make it as accurate as I can with only giving some slight consideration to making it printable and kitable later....
The plan... Make the model in F360 roughly in real world studio measurements (6 meter diameter) then lock down the scale I want to build my model at... Roughly 1.5-2 feet diameter. Once I have the scale locked down I can then start finalising the parts to print, and figure out all the mechanics and functioning parts....
Heres what will happen. The gate will function, the inner ring will move and accurately dial gate addresses. And the 12oclock chevron will do its locking effect in the Sg1 style. That is The 12 I clock chevron takes the symbols and does the locking effect and the dial chevrons just light up.
I decided not to go with the film style of gate dialing as this project is already very complicated as it is, but that may change down the line...
As the gate can be dialed, I need a DHD.... Now im sorry to tell everyone.... I LOVE stargate I'm a huge fan of the show and I love the gate.... I however.... HATE the Goa'uld DHD... The big round thing with horns on the side... Always looked wrong to me. So I have a plan... The Round Symbol pad, im going to keep. But Im doing to design a "as if made by Stargate Command" DHD... This will be a Naquida Generator and DHD all in one design... But that will be one of the last parts to design.
The vast majority of the parts will be printed on my resin printer (photon) so i need to be sure to scale the model so the sections can fit the build area. The main dialing ring gear will be laser cut, likely in 2 halves as my cutter is 40cm x 60m max. The symbols are chiplets that will fit onto the gear.
The electronics and programming will be something I work out much later. But its likely to be arduino or stm32f103 based. And with a single stepper motor... im still unsure if ill use a nema17 or some other smaller driver. Tbh Nema17 seems over kill....
The chevron locking effect is something I still need to figure out. The light and V split in there movement. So i will likely have to make some kind of butterfly/scissor mechanism there. But also not sure if I'm going to be able to fit a mini solenoid or servo in the ring space, or if ill do it using a pneumatic wire.
Anyway heres a couple of renders showing off the modeled parts so far... At this stage each duplicate part will be cloned around the model But at the last stage ill add the intersecting curve lines... Im actually very close to finishing the full scale model... I need to sort out the greeble effect on parts.
Anyway
Hope you like this start will update as it goes...
First I just want to say if any mods feel this is better in another sub forum by all means move it. I wasnt sure whether to put it here in Studio Scale Models or General or even Prop sub forum... Given that its still fairly large and being scratch built and not from a kit. I felt Studio Model is about right. Sure its not a 6 footer but its still fairly big
On and off for the past month and a bit, I've been working on a model of the stargate in fusion 360. This is based on various references I've found online, including the french teams full scale replicas thats been popular here. Focusing on the main visual details trying to make it as accurate as I can with only giving some slight consideration to making it printable and kitable later....
The plan... Make the model in F360 roughly in real world studio measurements (6 meter diameter) then lock down the scale I want to build my model at... Roughly 1.5-2 feet diameter. Once I have the scale locked down I can then start finalising the parts to print, and figure out all the mechanics and functioning parts....
Heres what will happen. The gate will function, the inner ring will move and accurately dial gate addresses. And the 12oclock chevron will do its locking effect in the Sg1 style. That is The 12 I clock chevron takes the symbols and does the locking effect and the dial chevrons just light up.
I decided not to go with the film style of gate dialing as this project is already very complicated as it is, but that may change down the line...
As the gate can be dialed, I need a DHD.... Now im sorry to tell everyone.... I LOVE stargate I'm a huge fan of the show and I love the gate.... I however.... HATE the Goa'uld DHD... The big round thing with horns on the side... Always looked wrong to me. So I have a plan... The Round Symbol pad, im going to keep. But Im doing to design a "as if made by Stargate Command" DHD... This will be a Naquida Generator and DHD all in one design... But that will be one of the last parts to design.
The vast majority of the parts will be printed on my resin printer (photon) so i need to be sure to scale the model so the sections can fit the build area. The main dialing ring gear will be laser cut, likely in 2 halves as my cutter is 40cm x 60m max. The symbols are chiplets that will fit onto the gear.
The electronics and programming will be something I work out much later. But its likely to be arduino or stm32f103 based. And with a single stepper motor... im still unsure if ill use a nema17 or some other smaller driver. Tbh Nema17 seems over kill....
The chevron locking effect is something I still need to figure out. The light and V split in there movement. So i will likely have to make some kind of butterfly/scissor mechanism there. But also not sure if I'm going to be able to fit a mini solenoid or servo in the ring space, or if ill do it using a pneumatic wire.
Anyway heres a couple of renders showing off the modeled parts so far... At this stage each duplicate part will be cloned around the model But at the last stage ill add the intersecting curve lines... Im actually very close to finishing the full scale model... I need to sort out the greeble effect on parts.
Anyway