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WIP – Alien: Earth hybrid controller

This is the device used to control Wendy’s hearing. I’ve ddone the best I could but it’s not shown fully on screen (there’s a part always obscured by the actor’s thumb) so I’m hoping we’ll eventually see it in a display or roadshow. This has an LCD screen, 3 faders, 3 tac switched, and 3
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IBM 7090 Project

Designing and building miniature replicas of the IBM 7090/7094 system Progress so far: 729 tape drives, tape spools, card reader, and raised floor.

Strange New Worlds prop replica 3D models

Recently I’ve been on a kick to design my own versions of three (and maybe four) props from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I completed models for a Communicator, the temporal device from the episode “Tomorrow”, and just finished a Tricorder model. Here are rendered versions of each and some pics of a built tricorder.
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Jurassic Park Barbasol cryo can

I’ve been meaning to do this one for ages and couldn’t decide how to make the can. So I didn’t. This is a genuine Barbasol Beard Buster red and white can that I painstakingly emptied (seriously, such value! It takes ages to empty one of these. And my house smelled like my dad’s bathroom for
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Dungeon Map from Dungeon Divers

From Jon Rosenberg’s comic Dungeon Divers. I made two of these for Jon based on images from the comic. Some tweaking for reality was involved. They are resin printed in several parts: frame, cube, lens rings, and lenses. I dyed from clear resin green and printed solid the lenses. They were then buffed, clear-coated, buffed,
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