Nintendo! (Now 1:5 SCALE) Miniature Consoles

[Doctor Octoroc]

The famicom and super famicom i actually have minis of from japan. Probably cheaper to 3d print yours lol. Suckers are expensive for being 1/6 and i don't even have all of them. Closest thing to the original famicom i have right now is an alarm clock and a box of famicom games i got cheap.

That's possible, although theirs are already finished so you'd have to take cost of paints and other finishing materials into account, but for the hobbyist and gaming fan, the 3d prints are perfect! They're just the right size and price IMO. They range from about $10 for the smaller handhelds up to $20 for the largest ones, like the Intellivision and Coleco Vision. I'd love to do them all 1/6 scale but between the loss of detail and the fact that the bulk of the price for any 3d printed object at this scale is labor costs, I think it's much more desirable to have them a bit larger and with more details showing even if they aren't in scale with 1/6 scale figures.

Send me the famicom so i can test them lol. Actually i got quite few doubles in the lot. These mini consoles are making me want to open up some shelf space in my collection big time.

Be careful, that's a mighty slippery slope. I started a modest collection of handhelds back in 2008 and now I have over 600 in the collection - useful for making scale replicas but very expensive!!!

Also, new model is done. Playstation! I've had comments on deviantArt to the degree of "no offense, but it just looks like you took a picture of the actual system" lol.

 

[Mike J.]

Ah, PS1, so many fond memories...

Maybe some wireframes would quiet the naysayers.

 

[Doctor Octoroc]

Ah, PS1, so many fond memories...

Maybe some wireframes would quiet the naysayers.

But then they would see into my soul...

And I'm going with the assumption that it was a compliment to the realism of my model haha.

 

[stigmorgan]

Amazing work. Cant believe I've only just found this. I totally love Nintendo and playstation, would love to get one of each, are these available yet?

 

[Contec]

Are you doing the Game&Watch games as well....They might need to be a little larger for the details to show up.

 

[Doctor Octoroc]

Amazing work. Cant believe I've only just found this. I totally love Nintendo and playstation, would love to get one of each, are these available yet?

Not yet as a run of any sort, which would probably be the best way to do it. As of now they are on Shapeways so you can browse them but I haven't sold anything through the site yet, just ordered from them myself.

Are you doing the Game&Watch games as well....They might need to be a little larger for the details to show up.

I've thought about it, naturally, but as with those, Tiger and Konami handheld one-offs, every game is different between the shape, buttons and decals, so I wouldn't be modeling many of them, probably just the most common shapes. I have yet to physically print any of the smaller handheld models so I have no idea how the G&W would turn out - they may be too thin to shell out and to do as halves.

 

[stigmorgan]

Awesome. The price is very good, I have a couple of friends that would likely be interested in these too, I will wait for when you do a run of them if you would prefer it that way.

 

[Doctor Octoroc]

Awesome. The price is very good, I have a couple of friends that would likely be interested in these too, I will wait for when you do a run of them if you would prefer it that way.

That's probably the best way for everyone, truth be told. Although I would never want to deny an anxious interested party from being the first to buy! But seeing as 3d printing is still a relatively new and sometimes unpredictable technology, the last thing I was is for someone to purchase a model from Shapeways directly and something to go wrong that I have no control over fixing!

For example, when I did my second round of prototyping for the sonic screwdriver 3d printed kits, they altered the process for printing the plastic I used and all of the tolerances were off so the parts didn't fit right. In a run based scenario, and as a maker on the site, I was able to contact them myself and have the problem fixed and get a reprint on their dime, but with a bunch of customers buying a model made by someone else, there isn't much recourse for saying "this isn't how it's supposed to be".

 

[Wes R]

Doing the handhelds would drive you insane, there's so many of them.

 

[Doctor Octoroc]

Doing the handhelds would drive you insane, there's so many of them.

I know that better than most, haha. I've collected a ton of variants of every handheld, at least those that I could get my hands on for a reasonable price. I have every original Game Boy and I'm a few shy on the Colors, Pockets, Advances and only one short on the Lights. The GBA SP's are another story because they still go for a hefty price and there are so many variants. In addition, the special editions were mostly bought up by resellers so you can only get them in sealed boxes and I only collect loose. I like having systems with history behind them so I actually prefer that they've been played before.

 

[Wes R]

This spring once i remodel we'll have to get photos of our collections. Mine is more games than systems though i did manage to put together an original game boy with a box (the one that came with the box was shot to crap) and i got the battery pack from japan in the box for less than the US version used. My one buddy keeps finding me stuff for the collection at yard sales. Got me a perfectly good gameboy color for .50, i just had to order an aftermarket battery cover and it had a game in it lol. The problem is displaying the stuff when half my room is taken up by my bed. I should model a pair of Powerglove sensors for my display until i can find a real set.

 

[stigmorgan]

That's probably the best way for everyone, truth be told. Although I would never want to deny an anxious interested party from being the first to buy! But seeing as 3d printing is still a relatively new and sometimes unpredictable technology, the last thing I was is for someone to purchase a model from Shapeways directly and something to go wrong that I have no control over fixing!

For example, when I did my second round of prototyping for the sonic screwdriver 3d printed kits, they altered the process for printing the plastic I used and all of the tolerances were off so the parts didn't fit right. In a run based scenario, and as a maker on the site, I was able to contact them myself and have the problem fixed and get a reprint on their dime, but with a bunch of customers buying a model made by someone else, there isn't much recourse for saying "this isn't how it's supposed to be".

Thats fair enough, I'll keep watch and wait, no rush.

 

[Doctor Octoroc]

This spring once i remodel we'll have to get photos of our collections. Mine is more games than systems though i did manage to put together an original game boy with a box (the one that came with the box was shot to crap) and i got the battery pack from japan in the box for less than the US version used. My one buddy keeps finding me stuff for the collection at yard sales. Got me a perfectly good gameboy color for .50, i just had to order an aftermarket battery cover and it had a game in it lol. The problem is displaying the stuff when half my room is taken up by my bed. I should model a pair of Powerglove sensors for my display until i can find a real set.

Here are all the photos I've taken so far. It's about 80% of the home console collection and 20% of the total collection which is mostly handhelds.

http://www.doctoroctoroc.com/classic-game-console-museum.php

Also, I forgot to post the Wii and Wii U 3d prints all painted up! I got a nice shiny finish on them both (harder to see on the Wii due to the white color) by coating the 3d print in a few layers of varnish first, them painting them with gloss enamels.

 

[Contec]

Any updates?

 

[Doctor Octoroc]

This project sort of hit a brick wall. Within the month that I was working on all of these, Shapeways changed their pricing structure in a way that hurts miniatures the most. Basically, instead of just charging for material use and labor they're now charging for unused space inside and around the model, which means that for smaller items like these, they charge for the empty area inside of the parts which is some instances increases the price from what it used to be by up to 1000%!

Unless a model has a 40mm or greater opening that can fit other models inside to use the space within them, they charge for it. It does make more sense as far as what their costs are, but it's asinine in terms of a 3d printing market. I'm probably not going to use them anymore but I do have a few connections with people that have direct access to other printers, so I'm currently exploring my other options.