Jumanji - Blu-ray sized replica

I might be wrong (had to happen eventually, haha).

I guess it's just another reason to rewatch the film, and I'll ask for some more pictures from people with the original props. I will get back to you, and it's all too likely it'll just be me going "well then time to eat my words!" :)
 
Bringing this back up: With us moving to a new apartment, my wife's pregnancy, and our baby girl being born, I had to take a long break from this project, but now I'm back on it and made a lot of progress already.

Designing for a 3D printer is difficult if you don't actually have a printer to test on, so I finally got myself a Creality Ender 3, which seems to be a very fine machine (especially for its sub-$200 price point). I'm still learning the ins and outs of 3D printing, so right now I only ran several smaller test prints of fragments of my Jumanji box:

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But this has already taught me a few things that informed my 3D model, which is first and foremost: Make this printable as easily as possible. So I split up the model into several smaller pieces (not as cut up as my test prints above, mind you), so that each can be printed at a good quality. This of course requires glueing a few pieces together, but I've tried to make this as foolproof as possible. Take the main lids for example: The top of the box (with that wonderful main artwork "carving") gets printed separate from the rest of the lid. So both pieces can be printed laying down, without any of those dreaded supports needed. To make alignment of the two halves easy when glueing, I've added holes to both sides which, through small "nubs" (printed separately) line up perfectly. This split approach also allows several slots added to the lids, to make adding magnets easier, and hiding these completely once assembled:

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This approach is also true for the compartments in the lids. The dividers are separate pieces, as are the hinges and lids. All pieces slot into each other nicely (that's my goal at least) - they still need to be glued of course, but at least you can't glue them in the wrong place:

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To make the hinges on these work easier, my biggest deviation from the movie board is the rounded top of the compartment divider. But the good thing is, with this modular approach, the divider can be swapped out easily. So I might as well design a flat-top one, to which "real" hinges can be added. The pin for these hinges might be a kebab stick (or in case of the Blu-ray sized version a toothpick), but I need to test that out once printed. As you can see the compartment lid also has a hole for a magnet in it, which will then cling to the metal bead or screw added to the inside of the lid.

Many smaller pieces are "slotted" into the main pieces as well:
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My other design change from my original idea is the placement of the Blu-ray case. I don't know why I originally wanted to place it on top of the board, so now it'll go beneath it. This has the positive side effect of adding a lot of empty space underneath the playing field, for adding electronics - maybe a tablet or smartphone (in place of the Blu-ray, obviously):

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So yeah, things are moving along again.
 
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Another test print showed that the separate hinges for the compartment lids are too tiny to make working with them any fun, so I redesigned them slightly:
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The hinges are now part of a larger backside, while the top of the lid got accordingly thinner. Glueing them back to back results in a lid at the correct thickness. I've also made the hinges a bit narrower to give them a little more clearance in the notches of the divider. A toothpick turned out to be too thick as a pin, so I used a straightened paperclip. The uneven bends in it provide a bit of friction so that the lid can stand open on its own. At this moment I am printing a section of the main box lid, to see if the divider will fit into its slot.

Edit: It did not fit, so back to the model, making the divider slightly shorter and its slot in the main lid a bit wider. That should give it enough clearance in both directions.

Also I am considering removing the central compartment hinge, since the original model seems to only have two hinges.
 
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After another round of adjustments and test prints, the compartments now fit together as intended. As you can see I took out the middle hinge, just to be more in line with the prop:

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I've also re-printed one of the carvings, this time lying down, an now the thing is perfectly straight. I think I'll use this one in my final build.

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There will be one bigger change to the two lids though. Watching the movie again I've noticed that the round cutouts in the sides of the lids are actually shaped more like on VladMartin's plans, and not like I did them according to Audrey2's plans:

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Granted, the original prop is hand-carved with a bit of variation, so it's not entirely clear (for example the cutouts at the bottom left of that screenshot seem to be straight first, with the curve starting only later), but I think I'll stick to VladMartin's plans here. Sorry Audrey! ;)

EDIT: Here's another closer shot, showing the slope of that cutout:

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More progress:

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Some parts still need to be cleaned up, nothing is glued or sanded yet. The biggest thing missing is the main part of the box, of course, which calculates to be a 24-30 hour print. I'll try to get that going on the weekend. For the playing field and the compartment lids I am planning to switch to a smaller nozzle, 0.3 or 0.2 mm, depending on how further testing with these goes. If anybody here has access to a DLP printer, please send me a PM and we might work something out, because that would probably be the better option for those parts.

What I found out is that the bigger pieces should better be printed with a brim, so that the edges don't lift from the bed, as they did on my lids (if very slightly). I think it's fixable with some liquid green stuff - since the parts need to be sanded anyway, I think those fixes won't be noticable once painted.

Also, as a tiny change to the compartment divider, I've made the top straight on one side, so it's not as obviously changed to make my hinges work, and looks closer to the original when the compartment lid is open:
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Around 5 hours in... maaaaaany more to go. Let's hope this works out! (this is the main box, by the way)

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Edit: Almost 16 hours and looking good.

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Well, so that's that settled :D

As a little (non-)update: I found out why the lids aren't fitting my base box, and it's not because of cleanup. For space's sake I've printed the base of the box rotated 90 degrees from how I printed the lids. I.e. the base of the box was printed with the long side along the X-axis, while the lids were printed with them along the Y-axis. And now the base of the box is half a mm longer than the lids. So it looks like my printer isn't calibrated properly to print exactly the same size in X and Y direction... bummer.

So I will have to do this 25 hour print again.
 
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Just a reminder that this is not a sales or interest thread (those belong in the Classifieds Forums) so please no buying/sales or interest posts, thanks.
 
Regarding the main playing field, I am still experimenting with different levels of detail.

Here's the lower detail version, which should be easier to print at smaller sizes and on FDM printers:
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And here's the high detail version, which would be suitable for full-size printing (if your printer can handle it):
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Both versions will be included in a potential set. Also both of them will come with and without the center hole (the recess for the crystal and the ring around it are present in both those versions, of course).
 
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