templates for the Firefly Lassiter.

[jason1976]

Does anyone have templates for the Firefly Lassiter?

it seams the other threads about the lassiter have gone dead, and non of them seem to have clear templates for the add on parts. So, before I go threw the hassle have making some, I thought would see if any of you had a set, or anything to get me started.

I have wanted to do this project for a long time. I finally have the flashlight, grip, and plenty of sheet styrene, so I'm itching to get started on it.

 

[JOATRASH FX]

No templates have been release that I know of. If they had been, I'm sure they would have turned up either here or on Fireflyprops.

 

[pennausamike]

Does anyone have templates for the Firefly Lassiter?

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I finally have the flashlight, grip, and plenty of sheet styrene, so I'm itching to get started on it.

Wow! Great project!
No there aren't any templates that I know of, but there are lots of photos.
By measuring the real parts you have and then putting those measurements on the photos
(dimensioning the corresponding part),
you'll create a scale with which to dimension the add-on parts.
you can then create full size drawings on the parts you want to cut out.

So print out some good pics of the Lasseter and start dimensioning.

Good Luck,
Mike

 

[Risu]

If anybody can post those good pics here I might be able to make a template that can be rescaled accordingly to the pieces.

 

[Larry Young]

Here're some cool ones:

[2008-10-15] Lassiter antique ray gun from Firefly

 

[JOATRASH FX]

By measuring the real parts you have and then putting those measurements on the photos
(dimensioning the corresponding part),
you'll create a scale with which to dimension the add-on parts.

That's how I did my Callahan replica. Works great.

 

[jason1976]

Wow! Great project!
No there aren't any templates that I know of, but there are lots of photos.
By measuring the real parts you have and then putting those measurements on the photos
(dimensioning the corresponding part),
you'll create a scale with which to dimension the add-on parts.
you can then create full size drawings on the parts you want to cut out.

So print out some good pics of the Lasseter and start dimensioning.

Good Luck,
Mike

Yeah, I've done that many, many times before, but I'm lazy, and I was hopping that someone else had already done it for this project. :lol Plus the folks around here do much faster, and better work then I do. It usually takes me months, and the end result is never as good as most folks.

 

[jason1976]

There are some good pics over at the Firefly archives web site as well. (though your not supposed to be able to save them off to your computer. Your not SUPPOSED to be able to)



And I don't do the firefly forums, do to......... well lets just say, I feel much more welcome, and at home here.

 

[Risu]

I may have overestimated my abilities. If I had more time and a better understanding of what parts of it were found items I could pull it off. Sorry.

 

[Birdie]

I have a couple of Illustrator templates for the side details from when I made my replica way back when, but the reference available is waaaay better now.

I've got the parts to do a new improved one, but kinda stalled on the top scope, which is a biotch.

You might wanna pick up Firefly: Still Flying for decent pics of the prop, if you don't have it already.

 

[jason1976]

I have both the companions but I never heard of "firefly still flying" but hey, and book with good props pics, goes right on my too buy list.

 

[Charles Kline]

Karl Derrick is selling his Screen used one.
I highly doubt he'd share any useful info off it.

There are decent photos in the recent companion guide.

Did you find the white flashlight or the black one?

I really need to get started building mine.

 

[pennausamike]

I have both the companions but I never heard of "firefly still flying" but hey, and book with good props pics, goes right on my too buy list.

My earlier, "preview" of the book:

Awhile back I made a small contribution to Titan Books for their Companion volume, “Firefly: Still Flying”. Instead of reimbursement, I asked for a copy of the book. Well, Christmas came in May and I’m here to tell you that “Firefly: Still Flying” is a fitting wrap-up to the Companion series.

Let me start by saying that I consider the Titan Companion books to be essential reading for even a casual Browncoat fan. Firefly: Volumes One and Two and the Serenity Companion volume contain the original shooting scripts for the shows and the BDM. As often happens, there are little bits taken out or added in as the filming actually takes place. So, the Companion volumes offer little tid-bits of info and insight in addition to a hardcopy version of the stories fans love so much. The Companion volumes offer excellent and often unreleased photos of the actors, sets, props and behind the scenes artists that made Firefly and Serenity the amazingly realized vision they are.

Everyone involved in the latest volume deserves to be congratulated for a simply wonderful job.
I long ago sent an email to Titan Books listing what my expectations/ hopes were for "Still Flying".
They have done a fantastic job of balancing everything I hoped to see in the book.
I don't mean “Firefly: Still Flying” was able to include literally everything.
But they struck a great balance of touching on all the aspects of the show I hoped to see covered.

I mentioned behind the scenes info on the sets, locations, props and CGI city-scapes and ships.
The section on the stunt work was a neat and unexpected bonus.
I mentioned that I thought it was necessary to include sections on the principle actors,
but that I thought that would be a tough thing to pull off because we fans have heard it all before.
I think the info the “Still Flying” team presented and the way it was done was an inventive, informative solution to a tricky problem.
I loved the varied insights culled from various sites, sources and time periods.
I think they avoided the sense of rehashing old ground.

They touched on fan activities, fan films and for-fan merchandising.
Given the breadth of Browncoat activities, they didn’t hit it all, but they gave a nice introduction that points folks in the many directions Firefly fandom points.
The inclusion of four new stories by Firefly story contributors will give fans a little bit of new content to enjoy and discuss.

The presentation of photographs and artwork in the book is beautiful.
The quality of the shots and the lay-out is top-notch!
I appreciated the use of a significant enough quantity of the storyboards to "feel" their usefulness.
And, now I have another amazing picture of Inara to frame.

And-on-and-on-and...

I highly recommend the Firefly and Serenity Companion volumes and “Firefly: Still Flying” meets or exceeds the standard of the first three.

Mike

 

[kurtyboy]

Who was it that was planning on offering machined parts for the Lassiter? Rylo, Lemarchand or mbmcfarland?

 

[jason1976]

Yeah, I love the first 3. I have about worn them out, since I have read, and used them for reference pics, so many times. And if I'm not using the reference pics to guide me in what a prop should look like, I'm taken them out to show some one else when they say "did it really look like that on the show" Or "I don't remember that being in the show", etc. I love books like that.

Since they didn't call this new one Firefly companion volume 3 I had no idea it was out there, but now I do, and I will have it, before the end of the year 2010.

 

[jason1976]

Karl Derrick is selling his Screen used one.
I highly doubt he'd share any useful info off it.

There are decent photos in the recent companion guide.

Did you find the white flashlight or the black one?

I really need to get started building mine.

The white one. I picked up the toy gun off ebay, a year, or two ago for the grip.

After looking, and looking, and looking, online, and off, for years now, I figured I would never ever find the flashlight. I had one guy on here off me one a couple years ago, for like $60. or $100. and when he showed me pics it was a totally different model. When I pointed that out, he said some thing like "Oh, there is no right model. it got reworked so much, it doesn't mater witch model you use." Of course I passed, then a few months ago, I was walking through my favorite thrift store, looked up, and there it was. I hadn't looked at the prop in so long, i though for sure this was a different model, but I figured for $2. I could handle it being off a little bit. However, when I got home, and brought up the pics of the actual prop, this is totally it (or so close no-one would be able to tell) I mean it has the correct ribbing around the part that holds the lens on, and everything.

I know the add ons should be metal, but I don't have the tools or the skills to do that much custom metal work. That, and a hobby shop went out of business near me, so I loded up on sheet styrene, in a bunch of different thickness's, for like 50% off. I don't have a wear house of the stuff, but I have enough to do this projects a a hand full of others I've been wanting to do for years.


Since the buttons on the back end of the props seem to b e so pricey, I may just make some thing that looks like them, unless someone wants to do a group order from some place that has them cheep.

 

[JOATRASH FX]

If we could get a bunch of people together, say 5-10, I could probably draw up some plans and see if maybe Russrep or someone else would be willing to machine at least some of the parts. (I need to completely rebuilt the Lassiter I have too.) They're really not that complex compared to Vera, a PPG or a MiB Neuralyzer.

 

[F-N-S]

I'm sure we could find at least 5 who would be willing to buy parts for a Lasseter. I would definitely be in.

The screen used Lasseter is a bit too pricey for me :lol

 

[Birdie]

Count me in too :thumbsup

 

[jason1976]

If a kit could be done in metal, with all the side parts, the front parts, and the scope, with mount, for less then say $100 (maybe $150. most, but I'll be hopping for well under that) I would be in. Any more then that, I'll just stick with making my own from plastic.

It would be really nice to have accurate parts made of metal, though. I mean, it would give it a nice look, and wait.

So, yeah, I'ed be in if the price is right.