TND's Death Star Detention Block Camera

theyrenotdolls

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Hey all. I'm starting a thread here to chronicle my detention block camera build. I've been having a dozen of the Patterson trident slide viewers for some time now. But as no other parts were known or available they've just been sitting. now that Phillip and Devin, blue realm studios have lenses, bezels and greeblies available I decided to move forward with this and build two cameras.

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I disassembeled led them and removed the inner lens and the bulb and diffuser...just to decrease the weight.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do w all those spare parts tho. Somebody let me know if they have any ideas or anything

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also for posterity sake, I snapped some good pics of all the graphics and stickers on the different versions of the trident. Here's an example. Let me know if u want to see more.

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Heres my backplate , that ms to Philip for the dimensions and the graphic

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I just gave the viewers a warm soapy bath as they seem to have attracted quite a bit of basement butter over the years.


More soon.
 
Thanks for the info lichtbringer. I have a bunch of the inner lenses if any one wants them.


Got my greeblies from blue realm. They look great. My viewers are in primer. Need to find a paint now.

Attaching them hem to the backplate is a little screwy tho.

Testing 1-2-3

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Ive had the paint sample from blue realm folks for a while but haven't had time for this particular project, However, I went to the auto paint store (Napa store here in town) to have them mix up a quart of paint but it was lunch time and the paint peeps were out. I started looking around on the shelves and found what I thought was a pretty close match, right out of a rattle can. See pics below



I sprayed a black primer before, then used the darker blue one as a base, then sprayed the lighter blue one on top,
This duplicator auto paint lays down nicely and I think the color I achieved is more than close enough for me. I just need a nice gloss coat now.
Im curious too see what you guys think.

 
Do you have the measurements for the rods, I cannot think of the correct word for them.

Thanks
 
Some updates on my camera build.
Almost done actually....after about 5 years since I started gathering slide viewers.

For the blackout of the lens, I just painted a sheet of styrene black and taped it to the interior of the lens of the slide viewer.

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Here is a front and back/top shot of all of the viewers attached to my backplate (wood, primed black, painted with plastidip)

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For the bezels, I drilled the proper hole on the outside and then cleared out the plastic on the inside and then inserted the bezel base and the plastic screw from Bluerealm.
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I need to get those acrylic white cutouts for the front of the viewers, as masking those areas in order to preserve the white color proved terribly difficult, so i just masked the outer lens and painted the whole front blue.
For now, I think they'll sit on top of a bookcase but I'll hopefully figure out a mounting solution eventually.

Thanks to the Bluerealm folks for cool greeblies and figureing out those colored bezels. They also shared with me their file for the backplate, which was immensely helpful.

-Den



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I was able and I mixed the 2 to get this color so thank you. Until you posted this I had forgotten that I never posted my finished set. I was asked about the reflective rectangles and white dots and they are both present on the original prop.
 
Cameron

whats your reference for the rectangular stripe and the white dots ?
Also what did you use to recreate them ?
What size red dots did you use ? 0.5 in or 0.75 in?
How about your backplate...what did u use there?
 
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@Cameron

whats your reference for the rectangular stripe and the white dots ?
Also what did you use to recreate them ?
What size red dots did you use ? 0.5 in or 0.75 in?
How about your backplate...what did u use there?

There were at least 3 different cell block cameras and probably more for the explosions. Each has slightly different placement of the stickers and the coloured lights vary as well. If you look closely at these images you will see the rectangle stickers and the white stickers as well. The first image shows them best. Also, I froze the images on my comp and went frame by frame and did some digital enhancement. I don't have those files handy. I cut the stickers from grey reflective tape. The same kind used on the training remote inserts. I believe its made by 3M. My backplate is metal and is from a run here. The white stickers are .5 and the Red are .75.

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So my Detention Block Cameras are pretty much done. I didn't mount them to the walls yet, I think i'll keep them on the shelf for now.
Thanks to Phillip Wise for the cool greeblies and the white acrylic face pieces.
I think I started gathering slide viewers in 2012 or 2013.
I hope you enjoy!

Here is before I added the white face pieces:

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Here's after:

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Now with the hardware attached:
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