Wasn't intending to have another one so soon-- but much like yesterday, this one sort of fell together. Or rather, this one was more or less the reject pile of parts I wasn't sure what to do with. 
The body of this one is a "Life" brand (like the magazine) 2 cell Heiland knock off. It's clamp was one solid cast piece meant to screw directly into a bracket-- so there was no slot for a card-- just hardware holes. Given that, plus how shiny it was, I decided to make this the partner to the last one I posted. Something meant for a higher class function. Maybe it belongs to the partner Jedi of the last one. (Or, if I MUST say the word, a Padawan).
The grips are a thinner version of chrome trim I used before. The activation matrix is an assortment of parts I got from taking apart an old broken SLR camera. The neck is the body of a Leitz flash (a cheaper, less sexy Kobold imitation), the emitter is a bulb socket, and the shroud is 3D printed.
I got a couple shrouds from shapeways to experiment painting on to see if I could make them seem substantial. I also got some wrinkle paint, that is a ***** to work with, but can make for some decent results. I went with a brand with a review by somebody who said it makes stuff look like all "those electronics in wrinkle paint" from the 40s. That sounded like the right endorsement to me.
The Leitz neck is actually original wrinkle paint, the shroud I painted. I think it actually looks pretty decent. Where the shroud is less successful is the weathering. An actual weathered wrinkle-painted piece would be chipped away-- where as mine looks like paint on top of the wrinkle. Also-- no amount of sanding seems to fully hide the lines made by 3D printing.
Next time, I sand, paint it gunmetal silver, wrinkle paint, then chip/sand off the wrinkle to expose the silver-- or at the very least JUST paint silver into where I have chipped.
Not my favorite design of what I've made-- but for being crafted from the reject parts pile, it isn't bad.
The body of this one is a "Life" brand (like the magazine) 2 cell Heiland knock off. It's clamp was one solid cast piece meant to screw directly into a bracket-- so there was no slot for a card-- just hardware holes. Given that, plus how shiny it was, I decided to make this the partner to the last one I posted. Something meant for a higher class function. Maybe it belongs to the partner Jedi of the last one. (Or, if I MUST say the word, a Padawan).
The grips are a thinner version of chrome trim I used before. The activation matrix is an assortment of parts I got from taking apart an old broken SLR camera. The neck is the body of a Leitz flash (a cheaper, less sexy Kobold imitation), the emitter is a bulb socket, and the shroud is 3D printed.
I got a couple shrouds from shapeways to experiment painting on to see if I could make them seem substantial. I also got some wrinkle paint, that is a ***** to work with, but can make for some decent results. I went with a brand with a review by somebody who said it makes stuff look like all "those electronics in wrinkle paint" from the 40s. That sounded like the right endorsement to me.
The Leitz neck is actually original wrinkle paint, the shroud I painted. I think it actually looks pretty decent. Where the shroud is less successful is the weathering. An actual weathered wrinkle-painted piece would be chipped away-- where as mine looks like paint on top of the wrinkle. Also-- no amount of sanding seems to fully hide the lines made by 3D printing.
Next time, I sand, paint it gunmetal silver, wrinkle paint, then chip/sand off the wrinkle to expose the silver-- or at the very least JUST paint silver into where I have chipped.
Not my favorite design of what I've made-- but for being crafted from the reject parts pile, it isn't bad.
