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Introduction :
What’s the project ?
-Building a complete life-size Stargate replica. This thing :
-The ring itself is about 6 meter in diameter !
-The goal is to have a fully functioning Gate with a spinning Glyphtrack and a moving Chevron to engage them. Like in this video :
-Each piece is made from original props from the studios (we searched for 5 years for those) or precisely handmade to be more than screen-accurate.
-The base will be made like the outdoor Gate with fake stones.
-We’re trying to make a giant screen in the Gate with LED strips for the Event Horizon, so that we can see trough and walk trough but still have a nice effect day and night.
-I worked for 5 years on this project and the work really began 2 years ago with the creation of our association : The Children of MacGyver. Now my entire house is filled with Stargate pieces…
-We were helped by a lot of actors of the series as by Joseph Malozzi and also Roland Emmerich who directed the first movie.
There is still a lot of work to do :
-I’m finishing my chevron this week, after that, we’ll have all the needed parts to go to Paris to mold and cast all the pieces of our Gate (Around 220 pieces for a full Gate) it will be a lot of fun. It’ll be made by us in a professional workshop.
What we made :
Here is a complete description of each piece of the Gate and how we found them, what we did with them or how we made them.
Bumpy Ring (x9) :
This ring was really painful to make. 9 of them were sold around the world by Propworx but we never found any of these. There is really just a few good pictures of this part and a lot of blurry ones… we worked for something like 45-50 hours just on this part.
First of all, we acquired the blueprints used for the movie from Cheech on the RPF. These are really beautiful but not always useful for measurements as they were made before the last ones made at the workshop (sometime you have to interpret how to do something or to imagine it completely like for this ring and these sketches stays at the workshop). But it helped us to verify if our measurements were close and be sure that we were not going in the wrong direction.
Our good friend Andy gave us the first measurements for this part as he showed us how he did the base of his and it was really a good idea so we did the same.
After that we used a beamer and draw on paper on a wall all the pieces we could. It was easier than on a PC. It took something like 15h to have the 3 faces done.
Bertrand (our web designer) verified and cleaned all the pieces, it took also something like 15h to make all the lines parallel.
The pieces were then laser cut in MDF 3mm by a friend (it was not really well set so we had to hit the pieces to take it off the sheets. A few were broken, but easily fixed).
We then glued each piece in place using the marks Bertrand added to his picture. We also printed it life-size so it was really easy to place each piece.
And here is the result :
We just need to put some primer on it, fill a few holes, cut the edges and it’ll be ready to mold.
Frontpanel (x9) :
For this one we exchanged a copy of our Backpanel with Andy, who has the original upper piece of the Frontpanel.
We made a replica of the lower piece of our Backpanel (it’s the same), calculated the space between both pieces and created a new piece on a wood panel. We added the wave strips (given by Andy), that doesn’t exist on the lower piece of the Backpanel, and also the inner strips… but we found out that these strips couldn’t be divided by 9 so we removed them, we’ll place them at the end of the project to have a good continuity.
The Glyphtrack is just for exemple, but will not be cast with this panel.
Backpanel (x9) :
That’s the only piece we bought from Propworx to get started (we didn’t have the cash to buy all the pieces). We had to renovate it because it had a lot of holes made because of bubbles in the original cast. Apoxie sculpt was really useful for this job.
We did try our own mold for this one, it was our first but since it's broken.
Chevron Wings (x9) :
It was one of the pieces Andy gave us for the backpanel. He has a cast of the original ones but it’s completely unusable like this so he made new ones based on these and we should get a copy in a few times.
Chevron Crystal (x18) :
We made the inner parts of the chevron basing us on screenshots and on the blueprints, also we measured our other pieces so it could fit. We used Sketchup then I cut the pieces in Forex and I’ll assemble them as soon as possible. It’s really thick and will be cast in clear resin tinted orange.
Chevron Crystal housing (x18) :
This piece was made by Andy first, but we thought it wasn’t as accurate as it could be so we did the same thing as for the crystal itself. The Pyramidal part is a bit different than the Atlantis one. This last part will be 3D printed to save a bit of time.
Chevron V (x18) :
We had this one from Andy, who has a cast of an original one. I just filled the gaps on the upper part of it because I thought it was a mistake made when it was cast by the production maybe. Here is a test cast painted by us :
Glyphs (x39) :
All the glyphs were made basing us on the pictures of Propworx in HD thanks to Stitchloft. Bertrand drew them precisely and we had them laser cut by my friend. I then used a hand-router to make the chamfer (it only exists on the SGC one not on the outdoor one). When I couldn’t reach some narrow zones I used a column drill with just a nail under the drill to follow the shape of my glyph.
We still have to find some ABS for the texture on the glyphs it’s really difficult to order it for Switzerland. The idea is to make a mold of an ABS panel and then pour some resin in it and place the MDF glyph in it and let it cure like that.
Strips between Glyphs (x39) :
Our good friend Stefan let us use the only original Abydos glyph signed by the main actors of the series. We took good care of it and made a replica of the pieces on the edges. We verified it has the same length on the SGC and outdoor ones.
Inner gate Strips (x180) :
I already mentioned it in the frontpanel, Andy gave us a copy of these and we have to cast a lot of them for the entire Gate (we'll make longer strips to cast it).
Base :
The idea is to make it in wood, polystyrene and resin, it’ll be really easy to achieve once we’ll have the structure of the Gate. We want to be able to dismount it in pieces of 2m x 2m max, but first we have to finish the Gate.
Lighting :
The enlightenment of the chevrons will be managed by DMX (norm used for the light on all the shows you can see today). We bought dimmable white LED strips and all the other pieces needed. Normally it’ll be managed by computer, but it’ll also be possible to use it with a light desk as used on stage usually.
Chevron Movement :
We’ll use only one stepper motor for the two parts. The opening motion and closing motion will be programmed in advance, but to activate it we will use a DMX command.
Spinning Ring :
You have to be a bit of a rocket scientist to understand how it works, we have a motor specialist in the team who will do some magical things with a motor and a computer once we’ll have the structure.
The main idea is to have pipes in the Gate to lead the glyphtrack attached to wagons so it’ll be easier to set.
Event Horizon :
We’re still searching a good way to achieve that, but the main idea is to use a LED screen made of addressable LED strips like in this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hU_WYXxnvo
And… voila. That’s it for now, it’s the 1:1 Stargate Project as it exists for now. We’ll have to finish the few parts that are missing and then we’ll be able to go to Paris in a professional workshop to mold and cast all the needed pieces. Then a friend of mine will work on the structure and we’ll just have to assemble and paint the whole thing… the paint will be a bit hard to do, but I figured out how to do something really close when I painted the Test-Cast of the chevron V.
I hope you enjoyed reading about our work, please feel free to give us any advice, to criticize anything or to congratulate us.
You can follow us here :
Facebook : Les Enfants de Mac Gyver / Children of Mac Gyver
Intagram : Login • Instagram
Twitter : EMG / SG 1:1 Project (@EMG_Sg11) | Twitter
TikTok : TikTok - Make Your Day
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/LesEnfantsdeMacGyver
We are often LIVE on Twitch, but most of the time it's linked to our work sessions, so be sure to check our social medias!
Website : www.emg-team.fr
Thank you.
Quentin
Please note that every picture shown here are made for sharing our work with the community only. If you want to copy or use any of them for any purpose (your own replica for example) please contact us BEFORE. Thank you for your understanding.
Introduction :
What’s the project ?
-Building a complete life-size Stargate replica. This thing :
-The ring itself is about 6 meter in diameter !
-The goal is to have a fully functioning Gate with a spinning Glyphtrack and a moving Chevron to engage them. Like in this video :
-Each piece is made from original props from the studios (we searched for 5 years for those) or precisely handmade to be more than screen-accurate.
-The base will be made like the outdoor Gate with fake stones.
-We’re trying to make a giant screen in the Gate with LED strips for the Event Horizon, so that we can see trough and walk trough but still have a nice effect day and night.
-I worked for 5 years on this project and the work really began 2 years ago with the creation of our association : The Children of MacGyver. Now my entire house is filled with Stargate pieces…
-We were helped by a lot of actors of the series as by Joseph Malozzi and also Roland Emmerich who directed the first movie.
There is still a lot of work to do :
-I’m finishing my chevron this week, after that, we’ll have all the needed parts to go to Paris to mold and cast all the pieces of our Gate (Around 220 pieces for a full Gate) it will be a lot of fun. It’ll be made by us in a professional workshop.
What we made :
Here is a complete description of each piece of the Gate and how we found them, what we did with them or how we made them.
Bumpy Ring (x9) :
This ring was really painful to make. 9 of them were sold around the world by Propworx but we never found any of these. There is really just a few good pictures of this part and a lot of blurry ones… we worked for something like 45-50 hours just on this part.
First of all, we acquired the blueprints used for the movie from Cheech on the RPF. These are really beautiful but not always useful for measurements as they were made before the last ones made at the workshop (sometime you have to interpret how to do something or to imagine it completely like for this ring and these sketches stays at the workshop). But it helped us to verify if our measurements were close and be sure that we were not going in the wrong direction.
Our good friend Andy gave us the first measurements for this part as he showed us how he did the base of his and it was really a good idea so we did the same.
After that we used a beamer and draw on paper on a wall all the pieces we could. It was easier than on a PC. It took something like 15h to have the 3 faces done.
Bertrand (our web designer) verified and cleaned all the pieces, it took also something like 15h to make all the lines parallel.
The pieces were then laser cut in MDF 3mm by a friend (it was not really well set so we had to hit the pieces to take it off the sheets. A few were broken, but easily fixed).
We then glued each piece in place using the marks Bertrand added to his picture. We also printed it life-size so it was really easy to place each piece.
And here is the result :
We just need to put some primer on it, fill a few holes, cut the edges and it’ll be ready to mold.
Frontpanel (x9) :
For this one we exchanged a copy of our Backpanel with Andy, who has the original upper piece of the Frontpanel.
We made a replica of the lower piece of our Backpanel (it’s the same), calculated the space between both pieces and created a new piece on a wood panel. We added the wave strips (given by Andy), that doesn’t exist on the lower piece of the Backpanel, and also the inner strips… but we found out that these strips couldn’t be divided by 9 so we removed them, we’ll place them at the end of the project to have a good continuity.
The Glyphtrack is just for exemple, but will not be cast with this panel.
Backpanel (x9) :
That’s the only piece we bought from Propworx to get started (we didn’t have the cash to buy all the pieces). We had to renovate it because it had a lot of holes made because of bubbles in the original cast. Apoxie sculpt was really useful for this job.
We did try our own mold for this one, it was our first but since it's broken.
Chevron Wings (x9) :
It was one of the pieces Andy gave us for the backpanel. He has a cast of the original ones but it’s completely unusable like this so he made new ones based on these and we should get a copy in a few times.
Chevron Crystal (x18) :
We made the inner parts of the chevron basing us on screenshots and on the blueprints, also we measured our other pieces so it could fit. We used Sketchup then I cut the pieces in Forex and I’ll assemble them as soon as possible. It’s really thick and will be cast in clear resin tinted orange.
Chevron Crystal housing (x18) :
This piece was made by Andy first, but we thought it wasn’t as accurate as it could be so we did the same thing as for the crystal itself. The Pyramidal part is a bit different than the Atlantis one. This last part will be 3D printed to save a bit of time.
Chevron V (x18) :
We had this one from Andy, who has a cast of an original one. I just filled the gaps on the upper part of it because I thought it was a mistake made when it was cast by the production maybe. Here is a test cast painted by us :
Glyphs (x39) :
All the glyphs were made basing us on the pictures of Propworx in HD thanks to Stitchloft. Bertrand drew them precisely and we had them laser cut by my friend. I then used a hand-router to make the chamfer (it only exists on the SGC one not on the outdoor one). When I couldn’t reach some narrow zones I used a column drill with just a nail under the drill to follow the shape of my glyph.
We still have to find some ABS for the texture on the glyphs it’s really difficult to order it for Switzerland. The idea is to make a mold of an ABS panel and then pour some resin in it and place the MDF glyph in it and let it cure like that.
Strips between Glyphs (x39) :
Our good friend Stefan let us use the only original Abydos glyph signed by the main actors of the series. We took good care of it and made a replica of the pieces on the edges. We verified it has the same length on the SGC and outdoor ones.
Inner gate Strips (x180) :
I already mentioned it in the frontpanel, Andy gave us a copy of these and we have to cast a lot of them for the entire Gate (we'll make longer strips to cast it).
Base :
The idea is to make it in wood, polystyrene and resin, it’ll be really easy to achieve once we’ll have the structure of the Gate. We want to be able to dismount it in pieces of 2m x 2m max, but first we have to finish the Gate.
Lighting :
The enlightenment of the chevrons will be managed by DMX (norm used for the light on all the shows you can see today). We bought dimmable white LED strips and all the other pieces needed. Normally it’ll be managed by computer, but it’ll also be possible to use it with a light desk as used on stage usually.
Chevron Movement :
We’ll use only one stepper motor for the two parts. The opening motion and closing motion will be programmed in advance, but to activate it we will use a DMX command.
Spinning Ring :
You have to be a bit of a rocket scientist to understand how it works, we have a motor specialist in the team who will do some magical things with a motor and a computer once we’ll have the structure.
The main idea is to have pipes in the Gate to lead the glyphtrack attached to wagons so it’ll be easier to set.
Event Horizon :
We’re still searching a good way to achieve that, but the main idea is to use a LED screen made of addressable LED strips like in this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hU_WYXxnvo
And… voila. That’s it for now, it’s the 1:1 Stargate Project as it exists for now. We’ll have to finish the few parts that are missing and then we’ll be able to go to Paris in a professional workshop to mold and cast all the needed pieces. Then a friend of mine will work on the structure and we’ll just have to assemble and paint the whole thing… the paint will be a bit hard to do, but I figured out how to do something really close when I painted the Test-Cast of the chevron V.
I hope you enjoyed reading about our work, please feel free to give us any advice, to criticize anything or to congratulate us.
You can follow us here :
Facebook : Les Enfants de Mac Gyver / Children of Mac Gyver
Intagram : Login • Instagram
Twitter : EMG / SG 1:1 Project (@EMG_Sg11) | Twitter
TikTok : TikTok - Make Your Day
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/LesEnfantsdeMacGyver
We are often LIVE on Twitch, but most of the time it's linked to our work sessions, so be sure to check our social medias!
Website : www.emg-team.fr
Thank you.
Quentin
Please note that every picture shown here are made for sharing our work with the community only. If you want to copy or use any of them for any purpose (your own replica for example) please contact us BEFORE. Thank you for your understanding.
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