Star Trek: Into Darkness 'Cold Fusion Device' Prop Build

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Lycaon

New Member

• Nov 4, 2018

• #1

Being the procrastinator that I am, I've taken a short hiatus from the other builds I'm working on and started modelling the 'Cold Fusion Device' from Star Trek: Into Darkness.
After watching the film back in 2013 this specific prop peaked my interest, but it wasn't until the Prop Store auction last year that I could finally find enough reference images to be comfortable with starting.

If anyone has any other images, measurements, builds that they've worked on or any advice for me - I would be more than grateful as I am still very new to this forum and prop-building in general.

 

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Lycaon

New Member

• Nov 4, 2018

• #2

Here is a couple of images that I'm using. (All creds go to Paramount and the Prop Store as that is where I got them from).

 

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Lycaon

New Member

• Nov 10, 2018

• #3

Just started to model everything in Fusion360.

I'm curious if anyone knows whether the case was scratch-built or if it's a found part.

 

MangyDog

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Nov 11, 2018

• #4

I dont think the writers really understood what cold fusion was when they concepted this idea However yeah the prop was interesting and looking forward to see your build... CAD work looks good so far

 

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Lycaon

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• Nov 13, 2018

• #5

MangyDog said:

I dont think the writers really understood what cold fusion was when they concepted this idea However yeah the prop was interesting and looking forward to see your build... CAD work looks good so far

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True, I completely agree. I read somewhere that the idea was because the reaction is endothermic, the device would 'suck' all the heat from the lava making it inert. It sounds completely ridiculous when saying it out loud; they probably should have renamed it, but the prop looks great though.

 

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Lycaon

New Member

• Nov 21, 2018

• #6

Finished modelling the cubes today.