Star Wars Mobile Control System
Prop Box Project
Animated & Static Display Cases
Animated Screen via Phone Compartment
Fellow student Harriet gave me the idea to use a phone as a screen with animation I made myself or downloaded animations. Running out of time I opted for the latter.
The phone would need a frame where it could easily be inserted, held securely and released.
I used Solidworks and my 3D printer to make this frame with some sci-fi styling that could be glued onto one of the control panels.
3D printing enabled a snug fit which holds the screen but also mean it was customer made for a Samsumg Galaxy S21 Ultra.
The frame has a lip on the top to hold the phone.
The entry and exit were done by having one of the walls as a separate part. I did look into bolting system then opted for strong magnets.
To give a smooth appearance as FDM 3D printers print with a strand of melted plastic, I used car filler then sanded down precisely with my Fein Multimaster tool.
I opted for a bronze look with primer, black and gold spray paint combinations
The Frame for the orange stencil display was made in a similar manner only by 3D Printing a black stencil.
Thin clear acrylic was used for the screen surface and a fluorescent orange piece of thin acrylic was used under this to act as a gel.
Unlike the phone a hole was cut out for light from the led strips to turn this into a light box.
Faction Colour Pallet and Kitbash Assembly on Box Body
After getting the tower combination prototyping with parts that could fit together and seemed to work, I started to work on colour pallets.
I started with the corporate dark grey metallic Imperial look with white rounded end slots.
Then thought the rebel look could be more interesting as allowed for more distressing and colour.
I first started with dirty white look then moved to more of a yellow sandy look that looked more jury rigged and old look of a device from one of the outer rim planets such as Tatooine or Jakku.
The chopped-up Nerf gun, hair dryer, Warhammer and Fastcast resin parts were painted in a mix or dirty gold, copper sand and various metallic spray paint colours before sticking such as the Warhammer parts.
In general, I mixed the various metallic sprays to get more interesting colours such as steel, gold and copper with some black and dirty down
king the part son with a mix of superglue, glue gun and epoxy glue.
The towers starter gun metal grey and I experimented with graphite powder as well as a mix of gold and black.
Then moved to chrome metallic mixed with gold and some copper and dirty down etc.
The tower parts were glued with a mix of superglue and activator and epoxy glue depending on the surface contact. There was a rotating joint on one of the parts which I kept to give the appearance of tuning the aerials,.
Once the towers were glued and built up and painted, I moved onto sticking the kit bash Nerf parts onto the surface. Firstly, preprinted then blending them in with the sand-coloured primer where it suited.
Various dirty down sprays were added. To mess it up.
