Heavy/Scratch: 3D Printed Catapult from Transformers The Movie

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  1. Dustritis

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    This looks fantastic! Cool sculpt and great features!
     
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    Man, this is brilliant-work and video was fun to watch, but your end-card in the video blocked the most critical-part of the launch-demo for the last 20-seconds of the video, is there any way you can remove that or move it around? :cool: 
     
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    Thank you!

    Silly me did not realized the youtube end card was sooooo long (somewhat new to the functioning of youtube!), but have banished it to the last few seconds so it should all be good now. Thanks for the headsup! :) 
     
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    I bought this and started looking at scale and closely comparing to the movie. I am a novice with meshmixer, so I've been working on making it a bit more screen accurate (although as with most of the rest of the movie, it changes from scene to scene).

    Anyway, I've attached my work in progress. the long cylinder next to it represents my Seige Springer (7 inches) for Scale. If I print this out and display, I may decide to cut it in half lengthwise and maybe cut off the front and put it in the corner of my display otherwise it will be 2 feet long....

    I am taking a little liberty with the back as there are not a lot of good clean shots of the whole back, only some close ups. I also opted for non-launching to be a bit more accurate with the movie.

    -og
     

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    That's an interesting approach to scale things up and must say it's looking good so far! Can't wait to see how it turns out in the end! :) 
     
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    Given how thin the "launch arm" is on the screen model, I almost wonder if you wouldn't be better off using a sheet of foamcore or layers of styrene at that scale. 3D print the body of the launcher, but then cut that big flat arrow-shaped part out of something that's thin enough that it will stand up to handling.
     
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    Depends on the angle, really. Here is another shot which shows that the launcher arm is pretty thick. Right now, on the 3d model it's about 1.5 inches thick.
     

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    We needed that.
     
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    it looks good, but it's WAY too small
     
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    Actually this was released as a digital 3d print file, and can be resized to any desired scale before being 3d printed. ;) 
     
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    masterpiece mp-55 springer is $500 just because he comes with a giant f*cking brick of a rail gun
     
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    Thatswhatshesaid! :( 
     
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    I don't know why this showed up so late after it came out, but dang this thing is freaking sick! Play features and everyhing.