Ashen
GameCube Révolutionary
I know, I know.. I know what you're thinking: "GoDangit Ashen, are you ever going to finish anything else other than 100 stupid GDMF GCp's?" To which I have to say: "Well yes, eventually. What can I say? I love the GameCube."
So now that that's out of the way, on to business.
This revision of the Fusion is going to be VERY similar to the 3rd revision, with a few subtle changes as you'll see soon enough. Why make a worklog for something that's going to be super similar to the last one you ask? Well, you'll find that out soon enough also.
"Pretty cryptic man. So where the Heck are you at with this new thing anyway?"
Well, I'm not much past the starting point. but far enough to show some stuff now I guess. I've designed and made a new mold for Vac forming, got it all wrapped up and this morning I made some forms out of em. They came out pretty nice.
Here you can see the old rev 3 molds and the new rev 4 molds:
As you can see, these are pretty much carbon copy's of the old molds besides the trigger areas, which I'll be using N64 triggers for. I've made the molds roughly 2mm wider and 1.5mm taller to buy myself a bit extra breathing room for packing stuff inside, among other reasons which will be revealed later. The other cool thing I've done is indented the 3DS analog stick area's this time by using a 0.8in thick piece of Lexan (polycarbonate sheet) and pre-cutting the hole area's out and then gluing the lexan to the piece of MDF I used to make the mold. This is the result:
Trimmed up (33mm total thickness this time):
"That all looks really great man, but I still don't understand the point of seeing you do pretty much the same thing over and over again."
Well, for one thing. I plan to document everything in great detail for this portable and post it here ( even like some video logs and stuff *gasp*). Pretty much so even someone who's dumber than dogflax should be able to make a functional GCp. The OTHER and most important reason for this worklog is this:
Which I recently acquired for a pretty significant sum of spare cash. I'm going to attempt to make silicone "negative" molds out of the vac formed case you see above once its completed. This should be a pretty fun and interesting process, and if it works out right and I don't completely *Can'tSayThisOnTV* it up. I should be able to reproduce completed cases like nobody's business. Which will be great for both me, and anyone who would wish to purchase a case that they can pretty much drop stuff in and call it complete. As I said, I'm going to try to go into great detail and document this process as best I can here, so that if anyone else would want to try, they could do it also.
I learned about this process by following Bungles awesome worklog for his first N64p over on MBB.
http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/forum/v ... s&start=40
He's also documented the process already in pretty great detail. Which gives me plenty to go by. So thanks Bungle!
Next step before any silicone pouring can occur is getting this vac formed case pretty much perfect. More soon!
So now that that's out of the way, on to business.
This revision of the Fusion is going to be VERY similar to the 3rd revision, with a few subtle changes as you'll see soon enough. Why make a worklog for something that's going to be super similar to the last one you ask? Well, you'll find that out soon enough also.
"Pretty cryptic man. So where the Heck are you at with this new thing anyway?"
Well, I'm not much past the starting point. but far enough to show some stuff now I guess. I've designed and made a new mold for Vac forming, got it all wrapped up and this morning I made some forms out of em. They came out pretty nice.
Here you can see the old rev 3 molds and the new rev 4 molds:
As you can see, these are pretty much carbon copy's of the old molds besides the trigger areas, which I'll be using N64 triggers for. I've made the molds roughly 2mm wider and 1.5mm taller to buy myself a bit extra breathing room for packing stuff inside, among other reasons which will be revealed later. The other cool thing I've done is indented the 3DS analog stick area's this time by using a 0.8in thick piece of Lexan (polycarbonate sheet) and pre-cutting the hole area's out and then gluing the lexan to the piece of MDF I used to make the mold. This is the result:
Trimmed up (33mm total thickness this time):
"That all looks really great man, but I still don't understand the point of seeing you do pretty much the same thing over and over again."
Well, for one thing. I plan to document everything in great detail for this portable and post it here ( even like some video logs and stuff *gasp*). Pretty much so even someone who's dumber than dogflax should be able to make a functional GCp. The OTHER and most important reason for this worklog is this:
Which I recently acquired for a pretty significant sum of spare cash. I'm going to attempt to make silicone "negative" molds out of the vac formed case you see above once its completed. This should be a pretty fun and interesting process, and if it works out right and I don't completely *Can'tSayThisOnTV* it up. I should be able to reproduce completed cases like nobody's business. Which will be great for both me, and anyone who would wish to purchase a case that they can pretty much drop stuff in and call it complete. As I said, I'm going to try to go into great detail and document this process as best I can here, so that if anyone else would want to try, they could do it also.
I learned about this process by following Bungles awesome worklog for his first N64p over on MBB.
http://www.made-by-bacteria.com/forum/v ... s&start=40
He's also documented the process already in pretty great detail. Which gives me plenty to go by. So thanks Bungle!
Next step before any silicone pouring can occur is getting this vac formed case pretty much perfect. More soon!
