Terminator Endoskull (New design)

Wreckhur · Apr 27, 2014

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This is crazy awesome! I love where you are going with this. Totally subscribed.

Talyn626 · Apr 27, 2014

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Awesome design. Looks to me like it would certainly fit somewhere in line of the model progression from the T-70 of the Universal Parks attraction to the T-800.

dasAdam · Apr 29, 2014

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Pumpkinhead said:
Acrylic glass for the chip design is a brilliant idea. Hopefully you can incorporate some kind of a light feature with this.

thanks for commenting =) well it would be awesome but i wont be able to build in an led directly into the cpu itself . the acrylic sheet im working on is 1,5mm.
lets say i have a rectangle middle plate with 2mm and both sides covered with 1,5mm acrylic chips. that would be only 5 mm in total. i already thought about cramming one led in the middle or something but that would make the contruction too fragile and i would also need to implement a solid system where the 2 contacts of the led would touch the - and + somewhere inside the slot without malfunctioning.

BUT im eager to install some blinking LEDS inside the slot and around the slot hole. i may wait to go into detail until i got some pictures ready

doesnt make sense to try to describe it in words i guess hehe. OH i sure plan to make the eyes fade in and fade out! =)

L0B0 said:
Awesome work!!!

many many thanks!

cavx said:
I have some varying thickness clear acrylic so might have to have a go at this tomorrow.

great to hear! you can post some pictures of your results

im curious to see what you came up with

Wreckhur said:
This is crazy awesome! I love where you are going with this. Totally subscribed.

many thanks mate! D: thanks for your interest

Talyn626 said:
Awesome design. Looks to me like it would certainly fit somewhere in line of the model progression from the T-70 of the Universal Parks attraction to the T-800.

thanks Talyn! yeah i can totally get your T-70 comparison here

i need to build the lower jaw and then it will look more human proportioned. i plan to build a neck and a base too . so with some additional room for design and form i can achieve a more advanced looking terminator bust

initially i was aiming for a prototype terminator that led to the T-X. as i plan to install some slit eyes which would look similar to the T-X's eyes ,too

Today i got my ordered acrylic glas sheets with 3mm thickness . transparent ,RED and BLUE as well

so im looking farward to create my first EYE dummies and experiment with colors, metallic sheet or foil as a mirror coverage to bounce the light like flahslights. you guys get the idea!

till then: thanks for commenting and all the encouragement!

bak9799 · Apr 29, 2014

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Not sure if this would work, but you could try using some SMD LED's and Bare conductive paint as wiring? Just a thought.

cavx · Apr 30, 2014

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cavx said:
I have some varying thickness clear acrylic so might have to have a go at this tomorrow.

dasAdam said:
great to hear! you can post some pictures of your results im curious to see what you came up with

Took a look at my stash today and I have clear acrylic in 4.5 or 5.0mm and I have a polly carb in 1.2mm and 5.0mm but it won't glue with Weldon#3 like the perspex. The beauty of the 1.2mm polly carb is that you can cut it with scissors so nice clean cuts. Maybe super glue might work, not sure. I can't use PVC solvent because that attacks the polly carb. Everything else I have is solid colour, mostly white.

My train of thought on this is 3 x 1.2mm = 3.6mm total and will give the plug in part close to the correct thickness, but in clear so it can be lit from an end.

dasAdam · Apr 30, 2014

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bak9799 said:
Not sure if this would work, but you could try using some SMD LED's and Bare conductive paint as wiring? Just a thought.

Hi bak9799
ah yeah these very tiny ones. scale wise it might work. i could also just use thin metal plates on the tip of the CPU. one being PLUS and opposite site being MINUS. , then build in such contact pins inside the walls of the pcu slot which would lead to the circuit and power. such ideas are really really cool! id like to fumble around with such details but i also plan to make a small run of this terminator head/bust so all the stuff has to work 100 percent, it has just TO WORK

dasAdam · Apr 30, 2014

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cavx said:
Took a look at my stash today and I have clear acrylic in 4.5 or 5.0mm and I have a polly carb in 1.2mm and 5.0mm but it won't glue with Weldon#3 like the perspex. The beauty of the 1.2mm polly carb is that you can cut it with scissors so nice clean cuts. Maybe super glue might work, not sure. I can't use PVC solvent because that attacks the polly carb. Everything else I have is solid colour, mostly white.

My train of thought on this is 3 x 1.2mm = 3.6mm total and will give the plug in part close to the correct thickness, but in clear so it can be lit from an end.

3,6mm is the original cpu prop? well i didnt check it to be honest since im taking all the freedom of "FANART" here i guess

i bought some special acrylic glue too... only to realize that ma REVELL contacta glue does not harm the acrylic surfaces at all... doh!

bak9799 · Apr 30, 2014

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dasAdam said:
Hi bak9799
ah yeah these very tiny ones. scale wise it might work. i could also just use thin metal plates on the tip of the CPU. one being PLUS and opposite site being MINUS. , then build in such contact pins inside the walls of the pcu slot which would lead to the circuit and power. such ideas are really really cool! id like to fumble around with such details but i also plan to make a small run of this terminator head/bust so all the stuff has to work 100 percent, it has just TO WORK

I see. I was thinking you could use the channels you've carved out in the acrylic to put the conductive paint in so it wouldn't be seen from the top. Also the paint would be thin enough that it won't add to much bulk to the chip. Even if you don't use it for a run, you could try it with yours. Here's the link for the conductive paint just incase, Make ? Bare Conductive

cavx · Apr 30, 2014

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dasAdam said:
3,6mm is the original cpu prop? well i didnt check it to be honest since im taking all the freedom of "FANART" here i guess
i bought some special acrylic glue too... only to realize that ma REVELL contacta glue does not harm the acrylic surfaces at all... doh!

Not sure how large the actual chip would be because I read that the prop CPU that is pulled out of the port in the Terminator's head for the "switch reset" scene in T2 was in fact a larger than real size for the close up.

My idea to light the chip is to make a base with a light (LED is simple) inside and a slot that excepts the end of the chip. The cool thing about perspex is that light passes through the plastic until is hits a scratch. By default the edges are just that, so once the chip is inserted, all the edges of all the little details should light up.

dasAdam · May 2, 2014

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bak9799 said:
I see. I was thinking you could use the channels you've carved out in the acrylic to put the conductive paint in so it wouldn't be seen from the top. Also the paint would be thin enough that it won't add to much bulk to the chip. Even if you don't use it for a run, you could try it with yours. Here's the link for the conductive paint just incase, Make ? Bare Conductive

yeah the thing is these are small little acrylic squares. not touching each other. the easiest thing to go for would be REAL thin cables instead of that conductive paint i guess.
many thanks for the link! that conductive paint is something i sure will remember! it might come in handy for other builds to trigger hidden light effects =)

cavx said:
Not sure how large the actual chip would be because I read that the prop CPU that is pulled out of the port in the Terminator's head for the "switch reset" scene in T2 was in fact a larger than real size for the close up.

My idea to light the chip is to make a base with a light (LED is simple) inside and a slot that excepts the end of the chip. The cool thing about perspex is that light passes through the plastic until is hits a scratch. By default the edges are just that, so once the chip is inserted, all the edges of all the little details should light up.

yeah ive read about that close up cpu =)
building an led in the base is something i did consider so far as well. i can make that happen if ill be able to put everything i need into one circuit only

and my restriction is that 9 volts i will work with. the circuit im building is based on a 9v batterie stored in the beack of the head. i got that fade out effect going but it gets disrupted by any other led built into it.......ahhh! and im certainly no real electrician

. WE SHALL SEE!

this is how far ive come! light tests! yay
im sorry for the lit up led shots. my cam surely cant convey the real look here...

here you can see carved in panel lines! they are sloppy and not accurate. its just for the sake of testing =)
panel lines filled with black! i also sanded the front face so that the light would get affected and fill the whole surface . on top of that comes the neaty polished and clean piece. this way the panel lines will appear inbetween

hopefullly more profesionell looking once i build the real thing

and here are 2 little videos showing the fade in and fade out.
once again...sorry for the bad quality. next time i shall record it with some proper equipment!

:cheers:cheers:cheers cheers!!! =)

cavx · May 3, 2014

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Mine won't be that complex. I'll just use s 3V setup and a single LED. I'm using the same set up in my MAGs and just hit 40 hours of use and whilst dim, are still going. The LED will will be stored in the base stand and only light the chip when the chip is plugged in.

dasAdam · May 3, 2014

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40 hours is neat for a single led =)

hey guys ive been working on the eyes today. i did build some proper eye "bodies" sadly i cant show you the skull with lit eyes today BUT ,y bro came over bringin his neat camera along so we did a little skynet lab fotoshoot

OH! and i was brave enough to cut off the back head piece and work both parths seperately

cheers! =)

cavx · May 4, 2014

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That looks sweet and will be amazing once lit.

Wreckhur · May 8, 2014

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This is my favorite build to watch hands down. I love Terminator and I really enjoy when someone applies their imagination to a piece and comes up with something top notch like this. I'm sure you could find work in a lot of places with this as the only project in your portfolio. Keep up the amazing work!

Cerberus442 · May 12, 2014

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Styrofoam Head... revisited...!!!

The Barn Owl · May 13, 2014

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INCREDIBLE. The progress is beautiful

dasAdam · May 14, 2014

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cavx said:
That looks sweet and will be amazing once lit.

i cant wait to be honest

...but still so much to dooooooo..... ahhh!! many thanks

Wreckhur said:
This is my favorite build to watch hands down. I love Terminator and I really enjoy when someone applies their imagination to a piece and comes up with something top notch like this. I'm sure you could find work in a lot of places with this as the only project in your portfolio. Keep up the amazing work!

.....wow you made my day :cry thats so encouraging! it is so great to hear someone being that interested in my project. i will try to speed up and finish it in the next following weeks =) thanks man!

Cerberus442 said:
Styrofoam Head... revisited...!!!

styrofoam for president

thanks for visiting!

The Barn Owl said:
INCREDIBLE. The progress is beautiful

thank you The Barn Owl.im happy you like it so far! =)

update!
it might not look like much but i actually was able to revisit many areas and adress spots /pieces i didnt flesh out so far like the back head and the mouth

first some photos of the left ear. its almost done =)

the next images show the back head piece

this back head piece will hopefully fit nicely into the carved out sockets i worked on this afternoon

the last shots show the updated mouth/teeth. im pretty happy how it turned out

i was worried the middle tooth would look silly.. well it really did in the beginning before i cut in that bevel edge

happy happy!

thanks for all the interest and comments guys!

dasAdam · May 17, 2014

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Wreckhur! thanks for the like and the reputation =)

here is a lil update
this time i got BOTH ears ready to show. i added some more little details. hopefully i will be able to mold em and cast them without much trouble :wacko

i cleaned the edge where the ground plate will sit on

AAAND i dug my way through the styrofoam to the back of the eye holes

this way i was able to sand these areas and hopefully will be able to pinpoint the eye pieces in their final position. this will sure be a deliacte task later on. so being able to detach the plate of the eye sockets will be a plus. also i now might be able to add some detail to that said plate as the origianl t-800 eye sockets have some nice techy shapes and holes in there too

forst time seeing the eyes sockets without that white wall there is kind of a difference *happy*

next big thing to tackle: lower jaw!!!

opcorn im excited and scared at the same time...considering how long it takes to not only build that thing but to design it and change stuff on the fly.... my brain is going in circles already

cheers guys! a great sunday is ahead of us

Sean · May 17, 2014

Kept scrolling down wanting more. your doing amazing stuff with this. keep at It please....when could we see the lighted eye's In the skull?

dasAdam · May 18, 2014

sean said:
Kept scrolling down wanting more. your doing amazing stuff with this. keep at It please....when could we see the lighted eye's In the skull?

Hi sean. ill keep at it! roger that!:thumbsup

here is a quick mock-up. please dont kill me for the rather poor image quality. the LEDS are 3.2 volts and very bright and my cam cant simply handle it. its a snapshot cam and even with manuel settings different timings and ISOs these were the only ones that worked ;_;

here we go

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