Lightcycle Model Kit
Description
EDIT: I have now included individual part files per request.
Instructions
All of these parts have printed very successfully for me without rafts or support. The one place on the front wheel that needs support, has it built into the STL file. After printing you just trim off the small support wall.
This kit also uses 3mm pins to align parts. Because I am still printing with 3mm filament, I just cut short 6mm long sections to use as pins. If you have a Replicator, or print with 1.75mm filament, I have provided a file to print a set of pins.
The parts for this model are separated into groups by color to replicate the design of the movie Lightcycle. The frame and wheel hubs should be gray, the windows and wheel covers black, and the wheels and body another color like blue or red for example. Of course, there are no rules.
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This is difficult for me,
I can not get the top window right. It becomes to hot at the end.
Even printing 6 the same, to allow the filament to cool does fail, as they tip over.....
Would you consider publishing it on its side?
How about one more piece? A 0.1 - 0.2 mm light trail to attach on the back wheel? Must go fire up blender...
Awesome! This might be a good application for the new glow in the dark filiment.
Awesome!!! I used to have this toy as a kid, it used one of those zip chords to wind up the wheels that had a flywheel, then you'd set it down and watch it go. The whole thing opened up like a hinge so you could put little men in it. I think we stuffed our playmobile guys in there and watched them race.
awesome, I ran out of cream pla while printing the body so I used the pink, but still looks cool :)
That's really great, good use of the UV red. So much like the original color! 8-)
Really Great model, thanks for posting it up, I had a lot of fun printing and building them.
I had no super-glue to hand so I made them up by melting all the ends of the fixing pegs with a lighter, as you assemble each part it all sticks together, the windows are held on with double-sided tape, all the other parts just uses the melted pegs method.
Thanks again.
Rich.
It just so happens I have all of these colors! Time to start printing!
Yes I'm old. Old enough to remember when the MCP was just a chess program!
I never wrote down the scale on the instructions! It is about 1:20th scale, or 500,000,000:1 depending on what world your referencing :-D
my only regret is that i can only "like" this thing once. thank you!
I have put this project on my blog: http://www.3dfuture.com.au/201... Great Effort cbabbage!
Impressive! You have raised the bar 8-)
My kids will love it. I have the red and black filament, for the silver parts I will use either yellow or blue.
What fun. I printed 2 and a 3rd is in progress. Everything fit nicely, except the printed pins are too short, they were quick to disappear into the holes. I wish I had measured them, but the prints left my hands while they were still warm :-D
Amazing effort by cbabbage. If you have idle bot time, give this a look.
I will post photos later, when I find where my son stashed his new treasure.
Good lord, you made an assembly PDF?? You've gone above and beyond.
AWESOME! I just uploaded an MCP model @ http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... and after adding the Tron tag found your Light Cycle; man, very very nice!
Tron on baby!