{"id":539,"date":"2013-08-05T03:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=539"},"modified":"2013-08-06T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T03:29:10","slug":"whats-next-or-should-i-say-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"What’s Next? (Or Should I Say ‘What Now’?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my satisfaction with my Blade Runner Offworld M2019 Blaster Display Base print<\/a>, I decided my next print would be my Space 1999 Stun Gun Display Base. One problem: I had to model it first.<\/p>\n

First, the Stun Gun itself. I bought a very nice resin model, (pre-painted and pre-assembled) of the iconic Space 1999 Stun Gun, and I really like it.<\/p>\n

If you’re not familiar with the TV series or this gun, you should get familiar. This was the<\/em> TV show of the mid 1970s, and certainly the most popular Science Fiction show of that time. Here’s the gun:<\/p>\n

\"space-1999-martin-landau-stun-gun\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I set out to model a base that the butt end of the pistol would sit firmly on, with the bottom (which has a hole in it) fitted into a slot for stability, and the front little nub sitting on its own little bed.<\/p>\n

The goal was to angle the gun a little, allowing for the angular title logo from Space 1999, shown here:<\/p>\n

\"space1999-year-1-title\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I downloaded a similar font a while back in anticipation of making Space 1999 models.<\/p>\n

I then printed out the “Space 1999” (without the colon… it just took up unnecessary space) in neon yellow, which I will probably use for the base when done. I could use white, but I’m not sure it would stand out properly. I may change my mind on that later.<\/p>\n

So then, after three or four test prints of just the chucks that the gun fits into (for spacing, accuracy, fit, etc.) I noticed that my Afinia H479 printer is not heating the print bed for me.<\/p>\n

It is recommended that the bed be heated to 100 degrees Celcius, and I always do pre-heat it. However now it wasn’t heating past 25 degrees. Sigh. Nothing I did, restarting, rebooting, reinitializing the printer, nothing worked. But I decided to print anyway, and I found that the results were as good as if the print bed was<\/em> pre-heated.<\/p>\n

I fired off an e-mail to Afinia to see what can be done about this. But until then, I was able to test-print the chucks for the gun, and the logo, both in yellow for now.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

The final base will be in black, with either this yellow logo or a white version. We’ll see about that later.<\/p>\n

Tonight, with the base not pre-heating, I decided to print the base model of the gun anyway.\"space-1999-stun-gun-display-base-model-ready-for-printing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the model in the Afinia printing interface. The yellow “Space 1999” logo should fit into the slots left for the letters you can see cut into the base.<\/p>\n

Weird thing: When I finished the print, the bed was hot. Somehow it had decided to begin heating again, but not before part of the base had peeled up off the print bed. I guess it somehow kicked in part-way through the print.<\/p>\n

Anyway, despite the warping, the result wasn’t bad. Here is the finished product, or at least a good first print of it, with the resin model of the Stun Gun on the stand:<\/p>\n

\"stun-gun-display-stand-printed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not too shabby. (That little black thing sticking up by the butt of the gun is actually a WiFi antenna on the back of the DVD player… not part of the model.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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