golden gun (Page 3 of 7)

Im all for keeping things as we see on screen, but that is me.

Nice drawings BTW 

I'm following this thread and it's great. Thanks for all the info.

I'd like to share my own golden gun. I know it's not perfect but I assure you it was cheap and... well, I love it!   

Love it, ggl! That's probably the nicest print I've seen of the gun. Gives me a bit more confidence that mine will turn out decent.

personally i prefer the matt finish from the shiny version.

looks awesome 

Today I finished the pen design, also designed the nib, nib block and nib block ring..
It's not working, as there are no printing detailed enough for a working nib block, but I think I will modify it a bit more so it will be possible to add a empty waterman cartridge for the fun.

The box is a pretty cool idea and probably of it's time, well done. The Pen and Cufflinks look well also 

Really liking your progress on this, parfaitelumiere. Your 3D renders look great, and the display case is a very nice touch. Can I ask which 3D program you're using? I use Maya myself. Looking forward to seeing more WIP pics.

I got this in the mailbox today.

Bad points
-I know I won't be able to print it from fine detail plastic because of bending issues during printing process, shame, because it's acrylic, taking good finish and polish, even the threads are working, I will try to find a way to get printed from acrylic if issues can be solved, if not, I will have to choose professionnal plastic, still good detail level.
It seems the issue is not popping with professionnal plastic and metal cast.
-lots of design issues to solve, mainly mechanical issues, for spring loaded areas, threads
-I will change the pen assembly completely for a closer to real movie prop assembly meaning probably shortening the pen, like original prop, or maybe making 2 different body ends, for a prop lenght and a waterman lenght.
I will have to fix the gap issues, adding gap here and there so if someone purchases it, no need to sand down, I ordered the prototype with various gap, from none to 0,2mm gap to see the best option, best is 0,1mm
-I will have to order various parts, but from different materials to check if a plastic core can fit inside a waterman pen body or not, like it would fit in similar body from plastic, if it doesn't it will mean designing a complete set for brass or plastic version.

What is good
-the design is not so bad, measurments seem ok, the assembly is working even not perfectly yet, I am not so far.
-the design will be even better once I will have corrected all issues.

looking great really!

if someone is interested as a candidate, I can offer him to buy a trial version.
I will complete some design improvements, and offer to buy it for rough printing price and shipping to me for checking and assembly.
It would permit me to put it as available on i materialize website, without purchasing it, because my final idea is a much complicated version from silver and ( I hope) titanium.
The gold plated brass version will be expensive, the parts available on shapeways gan give idea of price, but I think i materialize will be more interesting regarding price for cast metal.

Tinkercad has many defects, but still a free and easy online cad.

Here is the new pen, same as movie assembly.
The nib block is removable and cap stays in place when nib is off.
Just a hole to add and provide the tip to use some scale model brass tubing to make the cartridge needle, then it will be possible to add a genuine ink cartridge, if diameter is small enough, still to check this...

Last edited by parfaitelumiere (4th Oct 2018 08:31)

for painted versions, as it will need to be saned down, I didn't add extra gap.
I admit I designed more for a realistic brass version than budget version...