Archive For The “replicas” Category
A 3D-printable scream canister from Monsters , Inc. Designed in 123Design and available for your (non-commercial) use here: Thingiverse
This model of Robert Kinoshita’s brilliant Robot B9 (Lost in Space) was created from scratch using various reference sources. It is put together more like a model kit as most joins need to be glued. You can download this design for free.
More pics later, but here are several Blade Runner 2049 prop replicas I’ve built. Except for the tablet and pen, which are built from the same parts used to make the originals (although, the smaller tablet never made it on screen), all these owe their origin to designers from the Replica Prop Forum who designed…
Things I’m working on or haven’t posted pics of yet. HAL 9000 Samaritan (full-sized)
This is a replica of the eye exam device from the film Bicentennial Man. It was originally fabricated by Adam Savage (see http://adamsavage.com/film.html) for the film and eventually also showed up on the TV show NCIS… for some reason. At any rate, I love art deco, I love props and I love Adam Savage’s work….
2022 version: So let me just get this confession out of the way. I love Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I love it to death, warts and all. Roger Ebert said of the film, “It’s like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass…
I’ve put this one off for ages. I’ve always wanted to scratch-build a Space:1999 Commlock but I’ve seen it done by real masters of scratch-building. I’m calling it a prototype in that the idea was to figure out how to build one well by building one at all. And, yeah, I was nervous about not…
UPDATE: The STLS for the psrtas for the stand shown below can be found in my designs on Thingiverse. UPDATE: I’ve since built another Samaritan. This one full-sized and finished more realistically. More pics later, but here’s a shot of it right after finishing it. Back to the original post… I probably implied I was…