This is my first prop replica attempt ive enjoyed seeing what others have done just through the use of cheap materials picked up from wherever and I thought I would try my hand at it.
I picked up some cheap materials from a store here called "Hot Dollar" I already had a bit of old electronics and other junk here I could scrap for parts also.
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I thought I could use the snow globes as the lenses, the frame as well.... the frame, and the cable tie for the knurling on the lens. However I found these snow globes are ridiculously brittle once you remove the water and they simply crumbled in my hands so for the glass I went back and bought the following,
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after some cutting of the photo frame and cannibalism of an old cd player I had the basic shape and speaker.
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Now onto the lense, I had various sized rings and more parts from the cd player to plunder after which I had my lense roughly mocked up! here it is glued together (cable tie cut to size and glued) ready for paint.
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All parts painted and loosely put together so you could get an idea of the finished product, I used a gloss black spray paint on the lens, matte black on the body, silver on the trim and finally flat 50% grey on the speaker grill.
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I salvaged a red LED from a old PC case then glued him all together.
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...dave.......
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Things to do/fix:
Print out the decals (HAL 9000 logo and Nikkor lense details)
Putty corners where it does not fit exactly
re-paint speaker grill (I got silver on it :doh)
Make a display box
You should find a way to diffuse the red light a bit, other than that it looks awesome.
Why do you feel it needs a display box? It looks neat hanging from the wall like it's the real thing.
Really neat. I do agree with latin_geek, it looks really good hanging on the wall like that.
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