Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › 3D Printed and Build Starbug Models For Order Search for: This topic has 45 replies, 13 voices, and was last updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Podey. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic October 25, 2021 at 3:09 pm #269843 Niki HutchinsonParticipant So I was just checking out YT for anything new (and good) Starbug related vids and… came across this video by Fab365 which show off a fully Kit-Assembled, Starbug 3D Printed Model. Which you can apparently you can have made ? Or at least have an order to have one printed out for you. Link to video: Link to the store: https://fab365.net/items/257 I’m gonna check out a little more about this site (just to make sure it’s all good) But, in the meantime. give the links a look and see what you lot think. Creator Topic Viewing 45 replies - 1 through 45 (of 45 total) Author Replies October 25, 2021 at 11:08 pm #269851 Flap JackParticipant The video so good you posted it twice! This does seem very cool. I was shocked initially at the low, low price of $5.49, but then I twigged that that just gives you the blueprints for the model, and you have to actually produce it yourself. I have no benchmark to judge whether that’s a good deal or not. Maybe? I think the shade of green is a bit off though. October 26, 2021 at 12:19 am #269852 GlenTokyoParticipant The video so good you posted it twice! This does seem very cool. I was shocked initially at the low, low price of $5.49, but then I twigged that that just gives you the blueprints for the model, and you have to actually produce it yourself. I have no benchmark to judge whether that’s a good deal or not. Maybe? I think the shade of green is a bit off though. It’s on the low side of average but this is a site that does a lot of easy to assemble/print in place stuff so they probably have a business model. To get it printed by someone though in good quality at that size (0.12mm layer or finer) I wouldn’t be surprised if cost about 30-40 quid. October 26, 2021 at 12:43 am #269853 Niki HutchinsonParticipant Ok, two things. One: I posted this twice by accident (Thanks to finishing off one post, wanted to change a word. And then going back a few pages that still had most of text in it already. Then posted that, without seeing or knowing the other one was done :P) Sorry. Two: You do have to register, in order to request the data of the model. (They do show off how long, each parts takes to make) But the fact this is a thing you can get, is just such a surprised to me. The fact is design to have the landing legs up or down is just a very nice added touch. I may end up getting this to see how good it is, but I will let you fellow G&T’s know ;) Although, I kinda wish they had a Starbug 1 sticker to go on the sides. Just looks so un-finished without it. October 26, 2021 at 2:52 am #269854 MoonlightParticipant It’s a set of parts you can paint yourself. It can be any color. I have a 3D printer so I am 100% doing this and will post pics when I get to it. October 26, 2021 at 5:13 pm #269855 Niki HutchinsonParticipant Great to hear that :) November 22, 2021 at 10:23 pm #270240 Me Own StuntsParticipant It looks very good. And all the snapping sounds are very satisfying in that video. November 23, 2021 at 5:50 am #270242 MoonlightParticipant I have a copy but I forgot to print it. December 1, 2021 at 8:36 pm #270439 MoonlightParticipant It’ll take another few days to reprint the failed front / mid section but I swear on all that is holy in the eyes of Cloister the Stupid that I will shoot an actual model shot with the finished ‘Bug. It’ll look like ass but it’ll fulfill a tweenage fantasy of mine. December 1, 2021 at 9:27 pm #270444 Flap JackParticipant December 1, 2021 at 10:33 pm #270445 Danny StephensonKeymaster I have tried to print a Starbug in the past, but the legs are always my undoing. December 7, 2021 at 7:27 pm #270508 MoonlightParticipant The legs printed fine. It’s the body and head that keep failing. December 7, 2021 at 7:53 pm #270509 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant December 7, 2021 at 8:32 pm #270511 DaveParticipant The legs printed fine. It’s the body and head that keep failing. December 31, 2021 at 7:07 pm #271027 MoonlightParticipant Finally got the rear section mostly printed without failing. I’ll take proper pictures when it’s assembled. January 20, 2022 at 4:44 am #271296 MoonlightParticipant He’s not quite done but he’s looking sexy. January 20, 2022 at 7:26 am #271298 DaveParticipant Wow, that looks great. January 20, 2022 at 8:28 am #271299 MoonlightParticipant Just wait until I composite a fly-by. January 20, 2022 at 11:54 am #271302 Flap JackParticipant Marvelous! January 20, 2022 at 8:59 pm #271311 MoonlightParticipant The rear section looks different in texture because it got printed at a lower density after failing like three times. January 20, 2022 at 9:58 pm #271313 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Sir Mix-a-Lot isn’t going to be happy January 20, 2022 at 10:10 pm #271314 MoonlightParticipant The white balance of the lighting is different from both sides and the rear section is out of focus and the bluescreen itself was not very good. I’ll do experiments before I actually try to film a model in motion. Too bad I own a giant green screen and only have this shitty blue cardboard display that’s WAY too shiny and uneven. Ideally I’d hang the thing from wires and use my tripod dolly to breeze past it but I’d need to do a lot of work to get that set up back. I tried it like ten years ago with a Lego ship on my greenscreen but I didn’t have the right camera to do chroma key well at the time. I probably still don’t, but a DSLR is better than a shitty blurry 720p camcorder from 2009. (I had to clean up the Starbug matte a bit with masking, to be clear. It’s only this clean because I did extra work.) January 21, 2022 at 8:02 am #271320 GlenTokyoParticipant Could you film against black? Then you might have less cleaning up, can fiddle with the contrast and crush it down a bit, and then screen it onto a starfield. January 26, 2022 at 1:19 am #271384 MoonlightParticipant Filming against black would require as much work to set up as just getting a bluescreen, and a proper one would eliminate much of the issues I’m having anyway. January 27, 2022 at 8:23 pm #271422 MoonlightParticipant BIG FINISHED STARBUG IMAGE DUMP ^^^^ “The leg must have got twisted man! This ‘bug is really good!” Apologies for taking so long. The rear section failed to print days into the process multiple times. January 27, 2022 at 8:32 pm #271423 MoonlightParticipant Here’s the raw version of that Starbug in space shot illustrating why I had some cleaning up to do. But not as messy as you might think. This is the matte I was able to get before masking out the garbage. All that junk definitely lands on the spots you’d probably expect looking at the first image. I really want to hang this from a wire and do a proper fly-by but I need a better setup. Ironically I used to have almost everything I need 10 years ago, minus the decent camera. But the large chroma key screen I have is green instead of blue. Dammit. January 27, 2022 at 8:38 pm #271424 DaveParticipant That looks great! Fantastic work. January 27, 2022 at 8:41 pm #271425 MoonlightParticipant To be fair, my dad actually did most of the work in printing and especially painting it. I’ve been using his 3D printer, and I have no idea how to operate it. But I’m going to try to do some cool things with the Starbug. Could you film against black? Then you might have less cleaning up, can fiddle with the contrast and crush it down a bit, and then screen it onto a starfield. Come to think of it, these are all things I could just do to the bluescreen to clean up the matte. No need to introduce a black background I couldn’t possibly light correctly. January 27, 2022 at 10:44 pm #271428 Flap JackParticipant Looks great! January 27, 2022 at 11:01 pm #271429 RunawayTrainParticipant It’s gorgeous! January 28, 2022 at 12:49 am #271430 GlenTokyoParticipant If you got a less reflective surface, you could key Starbug out and then set it as silhouette alpha and then use that as an inverted alpha for Starbug. Bit of a stack like but when it gets these results who can argue :P https://i.imgur.com/ez2117n.mp4 January 28, 2022 at 12:59 am #271431 MoonlightParticipant I did consider having the matte as a separate layer from the actual bug so I could do more processing shit for a cleaner matte that might impact the foreground object I want to keep. Obviously, the lower quality of the video I’ll be shooting (same camera though) will make the keying more difficult. January 28, 2022 at 1:14 am #271432 MoonlightParticipant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfeimxV3hpQ Might as well do my own 2D one. February 21, 2025 at 8:19 pm #302939 MoonlightParticipant I built myself a friend. February 22, 2025 at 3:17 am #302943 TechnopeasantParticipant Well, if you can’t find any in the normal way. February 22, 2025 at 3:26 am #302944 MoonlightParticipant The advantage of having a skutter is I can carry it around and remaster everything I see. February 22, 2025 at 5:26 am #302946 TechnopeasantParticipant I was going to say you could do that with any old piece of grating, but then checking back realized the conversation was of how that WAS in the original version. https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/refresh-for-the-memory-series-1-byte-1/page/2/ February 24, 2025 at 3:24 pm #302973 PodeyParticipant Moonlight’s posts reminded me of the Starbug I made when I was about 9 years old. I seem to remember filming it whilst flying past on a bit of string. Sadly no video of that exists, as far as I’m aware, however I do still have the Starbug…. this is what it looks like now (the sellotape was transparent back in 93!) February 26, 2025 at 12:39 am #302986 MoonlightParticipant I feel like the degree of transparency was lesser on my mind than the question of why it’s covered in Scotch tape at all. February 26, 2025 at 5:14 am #302990 TechnopeasantParticipant I feel like the degree of transparency was lesser on my mind than the question of why it’s covered in Scotch tape at all. You mean it isn’t on the show? February 26, 2025 at 11:26 pm #303006 GlenTokyoParticipant Moonlight’s posts reminded me of the Starbug I made when I was about 9 years old. I seem to remember filming it whilst flying past on a bit of string. Sadly no video of that exists, as far as I’m aware, however I do still have the Starbug…. this is what it looks like now (the sellotape was transparent back in 93!) There’s something weirdly organic about this. Like its a Starbug moth that died half out of it’s cocoon. Nice detail on the windscreen. March 1, 2025 at 10:39 pm #303047 MoonlightParticipant What does a Starbug metamorphose into? March 1, 2025 at 11:23 pm #303050 TechnopeasantParticipant A Starmoth. March 2, 2025 at 11:40 am #303057 Nick RParticipant It’s all explained in that famous movie A ‘Bug’s Life. March 2, 2025 at 3:59 pm #303063 TechnopeasantParticipant March 9, 2025 at 8:13 pm #303297 PodeyParticipant I feel like the degree of transparency was lesser on my mind than the question of why it’s covered in Scotch tape at all. Those bits don’t all stick together by magic, you know! Author Replies Viewing 45 replies - 1 through 45 (of 45 total) Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In