(S.O.)Nomad The Prop

[rad1701]

Awesome job man. To me it's the end result and how it looks that counts - whether you carved it out of a block of wood or used a 3D printer - either way this came out great. Would love to see more info on the plans and dimensions.

 

[Commander Max]

Thanks for the support guys.

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Awesome job man. To me it's the end result and how it looks that counts - whether you carved it out of a block of wood or used a 3D printer - either way this came out great. Would love to see more info on the plans and dimensions.[/b]

I have to update the plans. Then I will post the link. There isn't much to do I just have to do it. (To much work this week) For those of you who are cad savy, I have no problem sharing the files. The plans are available in a pdf for those of you who are not cad savy. Just print, and follow the dimensions.

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I'm sure not gonna scream foul for using a 3D printer. On the contrary, it's a great tool and if you can afford to add one to your prop-building arsenal, I say, more power to you. (Besides, it sounds as if you sanded off all your fingerprints making this thing, anyway. tongue.gif[/b]

All I need is a black suit, and some Brey-Bans(sp?).
It wasn't that bad. Just a huge learning curve.

Here is a pic of the interior.
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It's not pretty, just functional.
Left side shows the color panels, the right without.
This does show off the versitility of the printer. The torso interior was printed in 4 pieces. The boxes were printed in place. As well as the gussets, and the tube guide(center tube). This acts as a support for the parts above. Holes for the lights were printed in place.
Nomad's outer panels are styrene(I cut them out on my cnc router), they are held in place by magnets. (I found out why you don't paint panels with the magnets in place. Whats that circle? Why won't it paint away?)

More later.

 

[temponaut]

Man, this gets better and better.

I was very intrigued to see the photos of your Nomad interior and read your description of how it was printed. I can easily imagine that your messy but fuctional innards resemble the guts of the screen-used Nomad.

How much would you say your Nomad cost to build, not including the price of the 3D printer itself?

Was there a trial and error period, with prints that didn't quite work the way you hoped, before you hit on your successful design? Or did you map the thing out so well in CAD that your first print worked as planned?

You've got skills I'd love to have. You are the Creator, the Kirk. No wonder your business is successful enough that you can add a 3D printer.

Get this man some Ray-Bans and a black suit. :thumbsup

 

[Commander Max]

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I was very intrigued to see the photos of your Nomad interior and read your description of how it was printed. I can easily imagine that your messy but fuctional innards resemble the guts of the screen-used Nomad.
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What I would give to see that.
I picture something with duct tape and tin foil. Maybe a few staples. Last but not least some bubblegum and bailing wire. :lol

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How much would you say your Nomad cost to build, not including the price of the 3D printer itself?[/b]

That's hard to come up with.
If I were to venture a guess somewhere between 1-2 thousand.
Not including labor and design time. There is no way I could track the hours, I was having to much fun.

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Was there a trial and error period, with prints that didn't quite work the way you hoped, before you hit on your successful design? Or did you map the thing out so well in CAD that your first print worked as planned?[/b]

Yes there was a trial and error period, that is normal. I must have printed 3 heads. I was glad I didn't have to re-print the base. It was printed in 2 parts. Each one took about 5 hours to print. (The cool part is all the do-dads are printed in place.) For the most part Nomad was planned. I had to break it up into parts the printer could print.

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Any "found" items or did you have to fabricate everything from scratch? [/b]

Even though I printed Nomad there were still a few found parts. On the back of the head is a site from the Klingon disruptor. There are bridge buttons all over, and other items that looked like they used whatever they could find. The crown piece was driving me nuts. It looked like some kind of nozzle. On the base it looked like they used some kind of brushes. I'm sure that there is all kind found things on Nomad, since it was created about 39 years ago, there is little chance of finding the parts.

Can anybody venture a guess as to who built it(the original)?

 

[Roger Ramjet]

I've seen one other mock up of Nomad at a con in NYC in the mid 80's, but this one puts that to shame....Great work, thanks so much for sharing....

Roger

 

[Zaphod]

Well done.

This episode was on, just a couple weeks ago.

 

[boatbuilder1]

ANALIZE ANALIZE MUST ANALIZE
completely incredible you shloud feel quite proud. and the rest of us are completely jealous

charlie

 

[jerrychevalier]

cant get the image to open

 

[Reactor drone]

cant get the image to open

It's an old thread,the image has probably been deleted or moved.