![]() The ship was built as a miniature, and as CG. FXGuide has a great feature on the miniature work in Interstellar, and this image of the Endurance, the ship/station seen on the poster above. Below, see images of the Interstellar miniature models, and get more info on how they were used. Docking shots, a scene featuring an explosion, and the descent into the black hole all used significant miniature effects. For Interstellar, New Deal made miniatures of the Endurance, and the Ranger and Lander crafts. Scratch build models (15) Model building (13) Corellian Freighter (12) YT-1000 (12) Space Ship model (11) Star Wars (11) Millennium Falcon (9) Sci-Fi Models (9) Science fiction (8) Sandtrooper (5) 501st Legion (4) Mako (4) Mass Effect Mako (4) molding and casting (4) molding and casting small parts (4) Dlt-19 (3) Electrobinocular scratch build (3) M35 Mako (3) Mass Effect (3) PVC blaster build (3) Rogue One (3) U-Wing (3) Warhawk tank (3) greebles (3) pressure tank (3) Episode 7 Speeder Model.The company previously made a Batmobile and garbage truck for The Dark Knight, planes for The Dark Knight Rises, and a model of the hospital fortress to be destroyed in Inception. I'll post again when I have much more to show. Well that's my update for now, wish me luck. I'll make a mold and cast a pair of these, then add some extra details. Again it took me several tries to get this right. I'm currently waiting for the delivery of this part, the docking ring. I did manage to successfully print window frames that I will use in my model. So I glued four panels together and made a mold of them. I knew I would need larger panels, and fitting smaller pieces together was getting tedious. I then made a new two part mold and several casts, then I made a mold of 6 of those and was able to cast several panels at a time. The original print is the frosted one on the right, the cast (in tinted smooth-cast 300) on the left. I made a quick rubber mold to see what a cast panel would look like. I opted to send my file off to Shapeways and had them printed and the results are great. But the prints were not detailed enough for my liking. I solved that by making the panels smaller, about 20mmx28mm. I have access to a Makerbot 2, but when I tried to print my panels the program choked on the slicing stage. I needed the panels to interlock perfectly with each other and that's the part that took some time to get right. I spent several evenings on Tinkercad building cells into panels. This meant that each cell needed to be about 2.5mm. I picked a size that I wanted my model to be, 35 cm or about 14 inches. So I set my sights on another path, 3D printing my own panels. Much to big for my shelf, but perfect for a studio scale model for anyone that wants to do that. I realized my finished model would be about 80cm long or about 31 inches. But each cell is 5 mm wide, and once I started counting cells in screen captures and doing math and ratios etc. I thought I could drill a small hole in each cell and vacuum form styrene over it and it would be perfect. I bought a panel and thought I had my solution. Its a panel of honeycomb that allows bees to build their structures on. One detail of the craft are these honeycomb textured panels.Ī friend suggested something bee keepers use called Honeycomb Foundation. I did find a few things that were not quite right so I'll fix those as I go. ![]() I built the paper lander to get a better sense of what I was facing and as a visual reference. The plans are of the Endurance, but the Lander and Ranger are included. I managed to find a set of Papercraft plans for this model, without them I would not have even bothered to start this. I hope you will forgive me if I throw in the towel a few months from now, but in the mean time I'm good to go. ![]() And all those angles, what the heck am I getting into. ![]() There will be some panels that are mirrors of another, but mostly all different. I did a rough count and came to just over 100, and not one of them the same. There are obvious difficulties with this model, beginning with all those panels. I really enjoyed this movie and even though the lander is not the most attractive craft, I thought I would pay homage to this movie by replicating it.
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