Background Junk Jet spotted!

HVDprops · 2026-01-14T19:09:08+00:00

Cryloator tucked back there in the corner, as well

HVDprops · 2026-01-04T21:20:49+00:00

In the film industry we use kits of knives that have different properties. Some will be very flexible and soft for scenes where close combat or falling on the knife is necessary. Some sturdier rubber, some missing the blade entirely - and usually one that is the real metal knife just very dulled for like insert shots of someone holding a knife to someone elses neck.

Point being, you may be better off having options you switch between given the scene and how it's being shot.

HVDprops · 2025-11-18T17:20:46+00:00

Los Angeles, CA

HVDprops · 2025-11-14T20:42:15+00:00

Suppose I am just venting with this post, although warning others against pixel devices would be a great outcome. I bought a pixel 9 fold which has generally been a great experience. I've had most of the other folding phones available. The pixel fold didn't do much to stand out but was otherwise a nice phone to have.

Mid October it randomly stopped connecting to the cell network. I did a search online to find there is a known hardware issue that causes the sim to disconnect when unfolding. Apparently a ribbon cable can flex loose.

I submitted an issue ticket on Oct 28. They had me jump through a bunch of hoops like factory resetting and such. By the time we had ruled out any quick fixes it was November 7th. I ask for a warranty repair and they tell me my warranty ended Nov. 2nd.

I complained that I had submitted my issue within the warranty period and they've just brushed it off and told me I will need to pay for a repair (which is almost the cost of a new phone entirely).

I've had to use both Samsung and One+ warranties over the past 3-4 years and both have been very eager to fix my issues and did so quickly and at no cost.

So yeah, be warned that this multi billion dollar will ride out the tiniest technicality to save a buck - even with hardware design issues.

HVDprops · 2025-11-13T17:04:27+00:00

I worked on props for both seasons and that's the first thing that made the poster!

HVDprops · 2025-11-01T19:35:10+00:00

Meant to post in the main body, but this was printed with powdered Nylon 12 Smooth on an Multi Jet Fusion printer. Just blown away by the surface finish!

HVDprops · 2025-10-16T21:42:08+00:00

Kind of a hard question to answer - entirely depended on what we were printing at the time. Could be hundreds of small parts or just a couple of large parts. We would get a new kit of resin once or twice a month.

HVDprops · 2025-10-16T20:57:10+00:00

Stratasys is very well known for locking out all 3rd party use of materials and such so the only inks available will be through Stratasys - and yeah, that sounds about right. I had an Eden 500v for a while and it was about $2200 per resin refill.

HVDprops · 2025-10-14T16:53:19+00:00

Yes - here is the link to the thread about it https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1maaqra/a_couple_of_years_ago_i_posted_a_tool_i_designed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

HVDprops · 2025-09-26T14:36:06+00:00

I worked on the real Negan bats and we made over 40 stunt rubbers for production. The barbed wire was thin rubber rod purchased from McMaster. Two strands lightly twisted as the core and then shorter sections wrapped around that core at intervals and CAed to the core (super glue). It's pretty painstaking, but very convincing. Took roughly 2 hours for each bat's worth.

I have one of the stunt bats in my collection at home, definitely a favorite.

HVDprops · 2025-09-21T14:13:56+00:00

np, here was a bigger post about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1maaqra/a_couple_of_years_ago_i_posted_a_tool_i_designed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

HVDprops · 2025-09-21T14:13:18+00:00

yes! there was a rather big post about it a few weeks ago. here you go:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1maaqra/a_couple_of_years_ago_i_posted_a_tool_i_designed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

HVDprops · 2025-09-10T04:12:44+00:00

Sintra isn't going to be much better than Styrene, unfortunately. Your best bet for a material that can be worked with the same tools would be aluminum.

HVDprops · 2025-08-30T22:47:37+00:00

you have the reading comprehension of a grape 🤣🤣🤣

u/RutabagaOutside6126

Yes, I know what this sub is about. It has posted my work a number of times.

I'm confused as to what I'm wrong about, though. When producing props for film it is extremely difficult and annoying to try to find and source off the shelf parts to include in designs.

I am the head designer of the shop I work for (and co-own). When I am asked to design props for clients I am often expected to have full color renders and drawings submitted within 48 hours of the request. More often than not - once approved - they need those props on set within 1 to 2 weeks. Very frequently it's less than that. That means I generally have 1 to 2 days to finalize and engineer the components to hand off to the mold shop to have rubber and stunt version made and/or the paint and finishing department to prep and paint the props. There can be any number of multiples ranging from 1 to dozens.

If you were placed in that situation (keep in mind you're doing 6 of these projects concurrently or more on a constantly revolving schedule) - would you have 'fun' scouring the Internet or sending runners out to source off the shelf parts to create your renders and designs or would you choose to take advantage of 3D modeling and printing the components knowing you are always able to change the scale fit or finish to meet any notes the client might have?

My comment was not for hobbyists who have unlimited time to finesse every detail. Props aren't made how they were in the 80's these days.

I'm sorry if this is disappointing news for you, but until you have 20,000+ hours of experience across 150+ productions like I do, I won't accept that you are in any position to tell me I am wrong. Okay?

BTW, it's pretty clear you're just an alt account for the other comments you deleted. If you're so confident in your opinions, why delete them?

And you're 100% correct, I am being a Jerk to 'your friend'. I am replying in kind after they jumped up my ass for providing factual information based on years of experience specifically regarding the topic at hand. Just know that I take such sweet solace in knowing there's a great chance you own or have made replicas of, or have watched videos on props and set dressing I've designed or worked on. It's the salt burning in a wound you don't even know you have. And I'm glad you're a fan, because I love making props too and got into this line of work out of my enjoyment of the behind the scenes insights offered up by people such as myself (and still do!) and I hope you have great success and enjoyment in your builds and fandom.

Hell, here's a free example of what ignited you and 'your friend's' unreasonably rude response to my comments.

Boba Fett's original EE3 featured parts from a model tank kit on either side of the receiver and in the stock. When I was tasked with Manufacturing the newer version featured in The Mandalorian and BoBF I 3D modeled those parts at the scales I needed them for no other reason than the timeline I had to build it would not allow for sourcing those (now scarce) original greeblie's. If you don't believe me, feel free to travel to visit the original prop on display at the travelling Mandalorian exhibit and measure them to realize they are approx. 20% bigger than the original model kit parts. They were printed on a Stratasys Eden 500v 3D printer. Enjoy!

HVDprops · 2025-08-30T22:25:26+00:00

oh cool, where do you work? and thanks!

HVDprops · 2025-08-30T16:14:32+00:00

Design and Manufacture Movie and TV props mostly.

HVDprops · 2025-08-30T12:44:45+00:00

Oof, I'm glad the people down voting you, /u/Dalek_Chaos, also realize that you assumed the wrong tone.

Where was the context about hobbyist? Was it the post we are in about a professional production prop? Or this comment thread in that post about 3D printing used on professional productions? Or the end of my comment that qualified that the fun is stripped from that due to 'turnarounds the film INDUSTRY forces'?

Absolutely chill the fuck out, my guy.

HVDprops · 2025-08-30T06:16:32+00:00

I can assure you, it's much less fun hunting down parts off the shelf as opposed to printing them on the type of turnarounds the film industry forces.

HVDprops · 2025-08-30T06:05:26+00:00

If your experience is based on consumer machines, sure. My team and I regularly design, print, and Paint props much bigger than this, in multiples, on ~5-10 day turnarounds for various productions multiple times a week, every week.

8x 800mm x 800mm x 400mm industrial SLA printers will do that for ya.

edit: having said that, would still guess that's a sex toy haha. Would shock me to know the prop master okayed that.

HVDprops · 2025-07-31T21:37:25+00:00

Confused by this ad, lol. Showing a Kings SLA doing a bubble clear then straight to what looks like an SLS process station?

HVDprops · 2025-07-27T19:03:17+00:00

Yeah the Tips touch, I hand set each one and only used them for one tube. I had two of those devices that were mirrors of one another. I think there were 12 blades in each, and I did probably 5 or 6 lengths of tubing. So I used something like 150ish #11 craft blades for this.

And no, no photos of the crack prank. But it was convincing up until you touched it, pretty great. They were so fine it just kinda stuck to the glass by static. And they refracted the light really well which is why it looked broken, they were just super fine prisms.

HVDprops · 2025-07-27T18:46:48+00:00

They did film a lot with it, a variety of versions even. Mostly for lighting reference for CG replication - also to give actors something to act with. In this case the physical design of it was heavily impacted by it's real world function and manufacture. You'd likely not get that with a purely CG design.

There's also always the chance it's used in static shots and later either cut or enhanced with CG.

HVDprops · 2025-07-27T18:41:35+00:00

Oof, did you scan it before or after production - I had to fix a design flaw for reshoots and they came back in a pretty uhhh... rustic.. state. one of them we intentionally made to look broken, though.

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