Starcraft Adjutant AI by yvesvidal - 1/6 - Multi Media

[yvesvidal]

Another crazy project that I have always admired: the Starcraft Adjutant Artificial Intelligence from the video game Starcraft. I have never played the game and never will, but I find this creature interesting. It is basically some kind of very powerful artificial intelligence capable of predicting and strategizing events.

 

 

The original model is located on CGTrader and is a real masterpiece. The designer spent an enormous amount of time creating a very large number of parts and making sure they fit perfectly, requiring very little glue or filing.

 

The AI creature is ominous in itself, but the "Hangar" or structure to hold it, is almost nightmarish in its conception. One may wonder why such a large structure and so many pipes are necessary to hold a thinking head computer.... But the whole interest of the model resides there.

 

For me, the challenge was printing large parts with filaments and small parts with resin, which I have never used before. The learning curve is quite steep but that is what makes it interesting. The "Hangar" is pretty much entirely printed with filament and the hoses, tubes and AI will be printed in resin, for ultimate details.

 

The original kit comes in the scale of 1/5th and makes it for something quite large. I decided to reduce it to 1/6th which is a standard scale for resin figures of girls and other famous and fiction  characters. Each part is reduced to 85% of its original size for Filament and 89% for Resin. Yes, I am finding out that resin shrinks and parts printed at 85% are too small to match their equivalent printed in filament. A lot to learn and adjust.....

 

 

Above are all the parts required to build one side of the "Hangar".

 

 

The hangar is starting to be erected:

 

 

All the parts are sprayed with a mix of Tamiya acrylic Royal Blue and Matte Black. The white is the flat white from Tamiya.

 

 

 

In the picture above, you can see the back of the AI creature attached to its holder.

 

 

 

I printed a "Stargate" circle for the base, where all the hoses and wires will go, but I may change that. I do not think it matches the cybernetic look of the entity.

 

 

 

Upper side of the "Hangar". I will keep that large bundles, disconnected from the legs, for as long as I can.

 

 

 

The two following pictures are giving you an idea of the humongous size of that structure:

 

 

 

 

As I mentioned, I recently acquired a resin printer, an Elegoo Saturn 4 16K and its washing/curing station. Elegoo was having a special deal for the Black Friday and I decided to jump on the crazy bandwagon of resin printing (which so far is working like a champ).

 

 

On the picture above, you can see three attempts I did for printing the back of the AI creature: On the right is a resin print at 85%. In the middle is a filament print at 85% and to the left if a resin print at 90% of the original size. I think the sweet spot is at 89%.

 

Yves

Edited 20 hours ago by yvesvidal
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[Canute]

Robo Cop and Terminators popped into my noggin viewing your handiwork, Yves. I like it. A number of model railroad rolling stock developers are going the 3D print route for being able to design kits of short runs for one off models. here's a link to one outlet. https://3dcentraltrains.com/collections/ho-scale

[GrandpaPhil]

Yves,

  That is awesome!  I’m greatly looking forward to seeing this build!

[Old Collingwood]

This will be great   - I love sci fi stuff.

 

OC.

[king derelict]

This will be a magnificent project Yves. I look forward very much to seeing it develop. The combination of filament and resin printing should make for great detail and integrity.

alan