OpenSCAD Voltron, Defender of the Thingiverse
Description
The entire model, lion heads, and even Voltron's face are all 100% OpenSCAD. Fully assembled, the model is 160mm tall from feet to the top of its head and 90mm from shoulder to shoulder.
I've used Tony Buser's pin connectors v2 and a new hinge/joint system ( thingiverse.com/thing:33426 ) I designed to create hinges that will rotate through a user specified range of motion. The model can rotate the hands, shoulder, neck, hips, and at the waist. It can also bend at the ankle, knee, and elbow. Also, the wings can also be positioned.
I had a lot of fun designing each of the appendages to match the personality of the Voltron-lions. Besides the lion heads, my favorite feature of this model has got to be the slightly-parametric fake lion legs.
Instructions
The fully printed model was made using parts from the v8.0 zip file, with an updated red-plate from v8.1 slightly modified to put the wings properly on the XY plane. I'd recommend downloading the ZIP files to make sure you get all the pieces.
Update: I changed the title to "OpenSCAD Voltron, Defender of the Thingiverse" per Cyclone's comment, because it was just too cool not to.
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this is great i am going to print it. Any chance on all pieces being separate? i want to print max size for rep2
Awesome job on the design! I was able to fit everything together by sanding down the connector pieces a bit, otherwise everything else went off without a hitch. Thanks for making my childhood dreams come true. Always wanted the Voltron Lions 'back in the day'. :-)
I love the pose in the top pic. If he had a rose in his teeth I'd say we were about to see a Tango!
Any chance of a Blazing Sword and other weapons to go with this if there isn't one already?
Yikes, i bet that took some time to do.
Are you thinking of doing anything else like this? (power rangers lol)
Yeah, designing did take some time - mostly with "sculpting" the lion parts. Printing went surprisingly quickly - I was able to print everything, start to finish, in one evening.
While I have no plans for other things like this or power rangers, I had made an entirely different set of arms that would look great as a human action figure. I think I'd like to see how feasible it is to create smaller-scale human action figures.
Once a human action figure possible, the mash-ups would get INSANE...
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Is there anyway u can seperate all the parts? I want to download individual and make each peice max size.
You could export them individually from the OpenSCAD file or you could use something else to slice them out of the printing plates.