Star trek TMP phaser prop from scratch

Here is a second trial, made out of 1.5 mm sheet.
It turned out pretty badly. The rear shape looks off and misaligned. That’s an ugly one.

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I've started to rework my bucks and correct what looked wrong to me.
There's no point in being accurate here but I'd love to have something that looks right to my eyes.

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Here is a second trial, made out of 1.5 mm sheet.
It turned out pretty badly. The rear shape looks off and misaligned. That’s an ugly one.

I can see that one man's "pretty badly" and "ugly" is another man's "pretty great" because I think it still looks really good and captures some of the original handmade look really well.

I really appreciate all of the work you're putting into this, and I can't wait to see how this all turns out!
 
I can see that one man's "pretty badly" and "ugly" is another man's "pretty great" because I think it still looks really good and captures some of the original handmade look really well.

I really appreciate all of the work you're putting into this, and I can't wait to see how this all turns out!
Thank you very much !
I love the handmade look on props but I must admit it's something else when it's on your own recreation.

I sometimes wonder if price scanners were influenced by this prop.
That's what I love with some of the Star Trek phaser designs. The Dustbuster looks like a price scanner too.
 
I did another try today, after improving the overall shape of my bucks.

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This time I removed all the rounded excess to try to align the parts the best I could.
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I'd love to make a TMP hero out of it but it is likely not the best setting to build that one. There's always that light misalignement between the P1 and the P2, like the WOK hero props.
 
I'm done with it.

So here is my vacform WOK hero phaser prop.

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Vacforming process is said to be "a question of trials and errors". I had to make three trials to obtain something I was satisfied with.
1.5 mm HIPS sheet was used on that one.
I have the very impression that this mold configuration, with the separated P1, isn't the best one to keep the nice tapered shape of the original design.
That's maybe why two parts pulls were used for the TMP hero prop instead of the separated P1 configuration.

I should have let the "dilithium crystal" sits over the top without the ring and the butt plate should be thicker but, considering the inconstancies between the props I took the freedom to just go over a more classical representation of that phaser.

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Excellent job! The ring around the Dilithium Crystal is accurate …to your point, the details on the vacuform models are inconsistent.

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I can see that one man's "pretty badly" and "ugly" is another man's "pretty great" because I think it still looks really good and captures some of the original handmade look really well.
Ergo my imposter syndrome kicking in...

Still, between their complaints and me squinting REAL hard, I may be learning something, WW359.
 
Excellent job! The ring around the Dilithium Crystal is accurate …to your point, the details on the vacuform models are inconsistent.

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Thank you very much !
Even the two WOK hero props made specificaly for the movie are not identical: the side rails, the emitter stud emplacement, the trigger area, chasing LEDs, etc.
To me there's no real canon version, it's up to anyone to choose wich configuration looks the best.

Turned out great Benjo, truly a labor of love on your part.
Thank you very much :)! I did the best I could with what I had on hand.
 
A couple of weeks ago the idea of trying to model the TMP phaser on Solidworks grew up on me while watching this fantastic thread:

I'm no good 3D modeler, I just know the basis and tinker with it.
What was just a poor attempt to play with the idea of imagining an idealized version of the prop became a more serious attempt at carefully reinterpreting the prop the best I could with what I can do on SolidWorks.

I used Greg Jein's collection stunt phaser pictures and dimensions as a basis. There are some really good profile pictures of two stunt phasers, speculating the two parts dummies were the same basis used for the hero version:

So, here is what I have so far. I've carefully followed the overall shape of the prop. The fun thing is the side ribs/rails don't go straight from the front to the rear end, they go slightly up over the rear end and this can also be seen on the TMP hero.
Nevermind the handle details, I just don't know how to reproduce all the indents via solidworks.

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while following the dimensions and shape the best I could, things are still a bit off. Lens distorsion and differences between models make it difficult to have a reliable overview.

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I've made several attempts to get the taper right. It's all about interpretation as I have no good top view of the prop. Mine still looks thick while I've made it as thin as I could. Hard to say whith lens distorsion and differences from one prop to another. While these props shall have the same basic sculpt they're not exactly trimed and put together the same way.
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