Daft Punk Thomas Build

FIREWIRE · Jun 3, 2011

Thanks guys,

No iv never made any architectural models before, and infact, although i have always loved making things(and taking them apart) from a young age this is only my third or fourth model...

This is a concept range rover i made for a captain scarlet movie in my second year at college -

This sketch isnt the car i made but iv lost all the other sketches.

This first part of our brief was to make a kinetic powered car... so this is mine... made from carbon fiber rod, acrylic and powered by elastic bands. Hadent fitted the tyres at this point. took about 3 weeks to design and make...

second part was an actuall scale model of the final concept-

i did finish it but neither got pics of the build process or it built up... made it in 1 week. we had 5 months to complete the project but being a student i stayed in my bed for 4 months of that lol. fair to say when i turned up with this my tutor could not believe his eyes... lol

anyways i have no idea why i posted this stuff up on a props forum but ah well...

FIREWIRE · Jun 3, 2011

made the chin from 1.5 mm styrene today.

first made a curved template so that both sides would have similar curvature-

Then traced my cardboard template onto the styrene-

nickes were cut in the curved template to allow me to glue

My glue gun skills are by no means pretty

should be finished my buck this weekend..

Psycho Sideshow · Jun 3, 2011

Awesome work.

FIREWIRE · Jun 4, 2011

TSqProductions · Jun 5, 2011

*descending whistle of approval*

Very nice! 8D

It looks almost like the original!

KaanE · Jun 5, 2011

I love all those thread because of the hundred of techniques you learn from those guys.

Well done and I hope to see more projects in a near future :thumbsup

Sorenzo · Jun 5, 2011

Amazing work, your techniques are so crips clean and calcualted, very skillful and so well thought out, your embarrashing me with my sloppy effort, although it doesn't matter how you get there, only matters what it looks like at the end eh? lol

Looking forward to the rest of this build.

FIREWIRE · Jun 5, 2011

Sloppy effort... if thats your sloppy effort i might as well give up now haha

cheers again though, my ocd in attention to detail seems to go down well on this forum for some reason :lol

My family and Uni tutors hate me for it lol

MOGUAI · Jul 10, 2011

Well done.Looking forward to next step.

Matt Treck · Jul 10, 2011

This is just, amazing. Awesome work man!

SUPERprops · Jul 11, 2011

FIREWIRE said:

Amazing man!

dont take this the wrong way.. but if you want yours uber accurate the visor is slightly off. once again its amazing, even if you dont change it. just trying to help.

still,

thumbsup:thumbsup

FIREWIRE · Jul 15, 2011

cheers for all the comments guys

SUPERprops said:
Amazing man!

dont take this the wrong way.. but if you want yours uber accurate the visor is slightly off. once again its amazing, even if you dont change it. just trying to help.

still, thumbsup:thumbsup

Do you mean its too tall?

The picture really doesn't represent what it looks like in real life well.The pics were taken at close range with a camera phone so the perspective is really off.

I can see how you would think it looks really far off. but its more accurate in person

geordi · Jul 16, 2011

A outstanding build.

Great work

User · Jul 16, 2011

Fantastic!

MOGUAI · Aug 1, 2011

Any updates FireWire?

FIREWIRE · Aug 17, 2011

Hey guys/gals

Should have some progress pics tomorrow sometime.

Helmets almost finished, will be ordering my molding supplies on Friday and molding next week hopefully.

MOGUAI said:
Any updates FireWire?

MOGUAI, You don't happen to be one of my Favorite djs, André Tegeler do you? please please please!! :lol

Cheers

MOGUAI · Aug 17, 2011

FIREWIRE said:
Hey guys/gals

Should have some progress pics tomorrow sometime.

Helmets almost finished, will be ordering my molding supplies on Friday and molding next week hopefully.

MOGUAI, You don't happen to be one of my Favorite djs, André Tegeler do you? please please please!! :lol

Cheers

LOL I'm a Dj/producer too but not as popular as Moguai tho,I'm glad you like his music.
Did you ever got my PM?

FIREWIRE · Aug 17, 2011

lol cool, yeah its weird because i only heard of him around a month ago and since then iv seen him everywhere and listened to his stuff non stop.

Hes also playing at a small electro festival i'm going to next month in Glasgow. Should be a good laugh.

Nope never received any PM. sorry :S Send it again and ill be sure to get back to you.

Michael

MOGUAI · Aug 18, 2011

Right on.I think that I sent you that PM on TDC than, anyway I'll send again.

FIREWIRE · Aug 30, 2011

hey guys, so here's a big image update-

Getting the join between the side of the visor and jaw was probably the hardest part of this build... just never seemed to end...

Working out the front lower jaw

creating lower jaw templates

these small blocks of wood were to ensure the pieces of styrene were at 90deg to the lower jaw

i added these small styrene strips so that i would have a clean edge after the helmet was trimmed

final coat of primer

details came out well

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