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[scarmig]

My winter hobby project is finally complete:


Serenity in Paper

The plans weren't mine, found them on the internet.  Kudos to the truly insane genius who designed the plans, here's to you Mr. I-can-reverse-engineer-complex-three-dimensional-shapes-into-two-dimensional-patterns-with-a-pencil-and-some-printer-paper Guy!

[Dare2BFree]

Wow!  That looks fantastic scarmig - Good job

[Ire]

Sweet!

Now, turn it into a fully functioning CAV

 

[scarmig]

My wife repeatedly told me I was insane.  Which is, of course, merely encouragement for the insane.


It was made up of about 72 number parts, but many of those parts came in pairs.  Several pieces I built twice because I learned the right way to build them after the first try (the instructions were all in Spanish).  In all I believe it used up about 40 sheets of 8.5*11 paper, half a bottle of elmer's glue, and filled the vacuum cleaner with snippets.

It has some problems, mostly with the right wing suffering from a late-night gravity shift that left it dangling too low, but I'm pretty dadgum proud.

[Mr. Dare]

Wow, Nice Geek! How long did it take you to build? 

Well done sir!

[scarmig]

I started it in Oct 2007, finished it end of January 2008.  I worked on it most evenings, although the Christmas holidays were a big interruption.

[Mr. Dare]

Did you build it from scratch? It looks good enough to act as a "stunt double" for the real thing in a film.

[scarmig]

Sort of.  Some guy in South America, much crazier than me, drew up the plans.  All I did was construction (although I did fix the solar panels to be more accurate.  Did you know that Serenity suffers from Confused Solar Panel Syndrome?  Different shots show them in different places, although the signature ones are consistent.)

What amazed me is how the guy who designed the plans managed to make curving, wrapping pieces from flat paper that actually fit.

Link to his original.

Link to Word Doc of a copy recolored to the movie version

You'll need both if you want to try it yourself as the second link is missing the last few pages.

[Mr. Dare]

   Well, solar panels are the most fragile part of the ship, and given the rough duty they serve, the panels are bound to get damaged and replaced, so they could be expected to "move around" I suppose as they are replaced in the most expedient way...
   Ooops... is my geek showing just a little?  I'll have to check out the plans, though I doubt I'll have time to try it any time soon. Maybe in a few years I'll have need of a winter project though, and that looks like one worth trying!