Hey guys, it's Adam from tested and today, I have a brand new one day build Where to begin Blade Runner I love Blade Runner we all know this I loved Blade Runner 20 49 and I'm kind of obsessed with deckert's binoculars and lucky for me someone on the internet did a beautiful build of Deckard's binoculars and Made all the files accessible and available to the public Here is just three of those parts This was done at Instructables by Jon-a-Tron. That's his username at Instructables He's an amazing maker whose name is actually Jonathan Odom, and I'm a big fan of his work And he included not only detailed build instructions for making deckert's binoculars But he included the STL files for 3d printing them and he built the whole thing around a working monocular magnifier from Amazon $15 this fits into this so that your Dekker binoculars can actually work. I can barely contain my excitement, I've been like I've been prepping this build all week Just thinking about little ways to make it even better And I have a few mods even above and beyond what Jonathan has included in this But first up and foremost is to wash these parts these parts were not printed on a filament printer They were printed on a carbon 3d printer Which is born out of a bath of resin and uses light and oxygen to make its prints. And there is sometimes some residue on these post the baking process and I need to wash that off if I'm gonna prime it and start assembly so here we go I haven't heard that sound before that's just me jumping with excitement Deckard's binoculars here we go Okay now while I wait for the rest of these parts to dry I have some heavy modifications to do before I even start priming and painting There are a couple of aspects to this build that Jonathan despite his wonderful Expertise as a maker got a little bit off because he didn't have enough reference material First and foremost his binoculars are actually flipped horizontally 180 from the reel so they're actually a mirror image of the actual binoculars I changed that when I had my friend run these in the carbon 3d printer, but also Jonathan didn't see the left side of the binoculars this side like that and Because he didn't he got this plate wrong so I'm going to grind this plate off and then add this this other other part and We'll get going So there's a little Ridge here that I've got a replicate and then where He has this plate going all the way across It's got a diagonal here So I've got to grind this plate off and then grind that diagonal in because I should be able to do that without Harming this thing too much. I'm gonna. Oh, I know how I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this on my mill that will be nice and stable Tighten down All right now, it's not a grind. I've actually got to take it down cool. Okay That's good, that's good. I'm happy with that. Okay time to turn it over I'm also gonna do some machining on the underside because I want to put in well any Binoculars like this would have a quarter twenty input in the bottom like a camera input So I'm going to put one in here because I want to make mine even more like real world So I made this part yesterday This is the part that will hold the quarter-inch stud and that fits right in the part that I just machine in the bottom Beautifully excellent. I just have to trim the little corners. All right. I am also putting a battery in Here and that means I've got to cut a battery door so that's the next thing I'm going to do All right got to glue the battery compartment in oh right There's a lot of little mods I'm making to this there's also a section I can see from underneath where I took pictures at the Bladerunner premiere Where this is actually a step in so I'm going to cut that out and put a little bit of styrene Behind it to create that step in Good Good, I'm happy with that now this thing is not that Tall so, I think it's gonna be One point five six I'm gonna glue these into place. That's totally reasonable to do now. No it is yes It is it is really. Yeah. It is. I'm pretty sure are you really sure I'm pretty sure all right here. We go Plug it into place All right I have completed the two little buttons on the side that are not in jhana Tron's original build now these go on the They go on a board for stuff that gets painted black let's put it that way For as sloppy as I like to say that I am as a builder one of my big failings as a maker is I tend to make my tolerance is too tight I tend to do that so I'm trying to make sure I'm not doing that so that this thing actually goes together in the right way all right And it does the battery department clears the viewer awesome So I'm trying to make the screws that will attach my battery door But I haven't given myself a lot of space which is totally customary for me And the way I'm solving that problem is by adding some baking soda to my cyanoacrylate glue now you might not know this but baking soda is an accelerant first see a glue and It It actually provides some structural Strength so take a look in here You'll see I've got a little pile of CA glue With the the baking soda in it the baking soda actually provides almost a dimensional gusset And I've used this technique many times it creates an acrylic paste if you will that I'm going to use to thread the 256 screw holes that will hold my battery compartment door onto this model there are more elegant ways to do this but This is the quick and dirty way So what I just did was there was a part on jhana trance build that was this little clearly a surface detail meant to look like a spinning dial like a little spinning wheel I Replaced it with an actual spinning wheel what is this stuff? This is called pinion wire and this is a cut off chunk From the motor driver from my Hellboy, mecha hand yeah, that's how horrible going And I just installed it so that it actually fits in here So it will be a live movable part of the actual build. Yeah, just a little more functionality For me for no reason than I could figure I'm about to glue a little detail part that I don't ever want to fall off So I'm doing what's called to thing up the glue. I'm Putting scrapes where the glue will be contacting the plastic and each time I do this I'm creating if you can imagine the tiny little valley Tiny little valley attend a little scrape it increases the surface area and gives more Mm for the glue to grab the plastic All right now I have a little more engineering to do on this front plate because I am adding in an external switch so that I could turn on the electronics that I'm putting into my Blade runner' binoculars, and that there are a couple of little Doohickeys right here these two little dudes and this bottom one the big one is actually going to be a push button on/off Switch that I've got that will be play that I got here look at how tiny these little puppies are yeah? I have already wired one up and actually attached a little bit of brass to it There we go that will be my switch so time for a little engineering All right, so here's my on/off switch And that is on that is off isn't that a nice little subtle detail boop boop boop. Yeah, okay? I'm not gluing that in just yet I'm gonna glue that in after I paint this, but that is another bit of engineering done on the Front's piece We are barreling forward We started this at 11 we're now four hours in and I did a couple days of free prep on this I just like thinking through so like I wouldn't get caught off guard But it really feels like about 40 minutes has passed for me time lies with these builds I can work on that Now one of the key features of binoculars is of course the part that you look through and The binoculars in Bladerunner 2049 have a kind of a hood on them, right and jontron did this using craft foam he made a template for the hood using craft foam but my problem is as I look at the craft foam and it doesn't quite Sell as a commercial product to me, and I want this prop to work For me personally. I wanted to feel like I'm holding a real piece of equipment So I'm going to use this and I haven't used this untested before. I don't think this is Kydex This is used for things like gun holsters and knife holsters. It is a thermal plastic with a low Softening point but a higher melting point than styrene with styrene you get it soft And you're very close to having it be like taffy but with Kydex you can get it very soft and use that to press it and keep on heating it and Keep on molding it until it's exactly the way you want it It's really Pretty cool to play with so I have made I told you I did a little pre prep on this I have made a buck that fits my face That I will use as a shaping buck for this strip of Kydex Kydex tends to have a tendency in my experience to shrink a little bit When you heat it, so it is always good to give yourself a little bit of extra room I'm sure there are Kydex experts out there yelling at me for all sorts of stuff, but Those are just the simple things. I know about kind Kydex tends to cut and snap similar to styrene So it's just as easy to trim although it's a little bit more tenacious It's really good stuff. I've only bought a couple of sheets and played with it a little bit But enough to know that I really like it That's garbage I Didn't make it into it no I'm gonna heat this up, and we're gonna heat it up in a new piece of Adam Savage shop equipment. Let's check it out This is my new lab oven yeah I had to do some baking of some pieces Recently and I was looking into high capacity toaster ovens and I was already in there like over $250 for the ones that I was looking at and I realized for a little more I could get a 450 degree Capable lab oven that heats up quickly and allows me to go as gentle as a hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit Which is really nice, so I've got it set at about 200 right now And that should soften up my Kydex pretty well in about 20 minutes Most of the parts are good. Oh, I want to hit those with a gloss coat what am I doing over here? Oh, I'm just happening to check these I came over to check the oven oh Look at that okay here we go so What So I've now mostly got my Kydex bent around the forum, and I'm in the process of just smoothing it out and Going in and making sure each part is is working. There's that little bump there You can have very granular control over it It's not even hot enough to burn me, but it is hot enough to move it and give me a yeah, okay So you see how these are bumpy boop boop boop. I'm gonna fix those right now I'm really really enjoying. What a forgiving material Kydex. Is it is really quite lovely Damn That is that looks like a like a like a part Because I want really gentle curves around the inside of this I wait I made it too long so I can scale it back and make it smooth because I want really gentle curves I'm using a big fat flap Sander for the dremel at a low speed and this gives me some legs Nice fine control of sanding without doing too much removal. That's the biggest problem here is that? Too much somewhere you have to keep on removing So even though the green and the red are matte in color and the final product is matte I'm still giving them a coat of clear matte finish because it tends to deepen The the paint job a little bit It makes it look a little more dimensional and that also makes it look a little more pro I am also going to know less of it. I am also going to clearcoat some of these black parts be Almost ready to assemble like ten minutes Now there is a strap as part of the binoculars and while all animal products are gone in the Bladerunner Universe and clearly the strap in the movie must have been rubber I have used leather because I couldn't find any neoprene that was exactly the right thickness so I'm about to make the strap, and I'm gonna make it on the Strap hanger here, and I'm going to rivet it all together Beautiful exactly, right One Nice Now we're getting we're getting somewhere I have battery power I have switch There you go a working lens and the ability to focus it which is pretty freakin cool if I say so myself All right actually before I heat shrink these I'm gonna test... Hey! They work, totally work! Awesome. Now I have lights. Now it's a real thing. Awesome This is awesome. This is really coming in just great. It's really real. I'm really pleased with this this Yeah, it totally actually functions And you've got the range-finding. I made that a little smoky because I thought that was look better if it was smoky now It's time for some painting reference there excellent There are some dings over here It's like rub 'n buff dry-brush So here's what I have to do the final black weather wash on here which is some black acrylic paint a little bit of water a little bit of rubbing alcohol and a Towel what I'm gonna. Do is I'm going to make up a wet mixture of the acrylic paint I'm gonna just paint it slather it on I'm gonna try and pull it back off and I'll keep on doing that When I feel like I have it kind of close But it might be a little too broad in its strokes because of my big brush I'll hit it with a little bit of Rubbing alcohol and that will help thin out the paint and make it go into the corners It's got to go into all these little intricacies. That's what makes it look right when it gets inside that stuff so Here we go yep already Already working. I love this process my favorite part. It's the most scary. I'm not kidding I'm always I always I'm like I have no idea what I'm doing. I hope this looks good One more thing to add to this to weather it and it is dirt There we go this is is this yeah, this is some Fuller's earth and I hit this and Yep, give this a little bit of a dusting mm-hmm there we go There you have it Deckard's Bladerunner 2049 Binoculars, I know they're a little bit dirtier than the originals, but that's the way I like it. That's how I roll I want a a big shout out to Jonathan Odom from Instructables for building these beautiful STL files and making them open to the public. Thank you That was awesome I had so much fun adding details to this and lights weee and Lastly, thanks to Carbon 3d for printing these parts out. This is my first experience working with parts from your printer, and I Truly, hope it's not the last this was some fantastic plastic and fantastic resolution to work with this has been a 1-day bill and see See you guys out in the field But wait wait wait wait I realized the whole videos been cut, but I totally forgot one key part And that is the graphical element of the binoculars There are two: there are ruler markings around the edge of this lens And there is a little optical viewer sticker that goes here I have worked them up in Photoshop and printed them on a couple of different silver papers and this is some cool stuff by the way this is sort of a matte silver which is perfect for the optical markings for the ruler markings around the lens And then I found a high-gloss silver paper that you can print from inkjet excuse me from laser Onto and that is freaking awesome because sometimes I have the need for metallic sticker details especially in some of my apollo Hardware, and I just didn't realize until I looked it up that you could print on silver paper, so I printed these out It's time to apply them and finish this thing once and for all Whoops ah It's not working it's totally rubbing off okay, so my problem solving for the high silver toner Printer paper will have to wait I went with the mat, so I also have that Yeah, I like that. Okay, let's see how it fits all the way around and I'm happy with that That's great. I have my two graphics right here I'm going to need to give them some glue so I'm going to lay down some paper and spray glue them Excellent ah it it totally finishes it. Okay, and now the last part So because I did not make the divisions of this absolutely perfect to the Circumference of this lens I am hiding the crime of the slight lack of alignment by starting this sticker bottom dead center, which is the least viewed part of this It is a reasonable guide for exactly that kind of obfuscation of the lack of precision Often accompanies prop making. And look at that Fantastic I am really really pleased with how that looks There we go sorry for the false ending now the binoculars are done. I will see you guys in 2049
What a beautiful build. I'm so glad Adam Savage is such a blade runner mega geek
Wow I didn't even really notice that prop when I was watching the movie. In review it does have a really fitting design for that universe. I'm not a huge fan of the colors, but that body is tight.
This is fucking amazing. Wish these were for sale.