Crashin for the camera!

We had to re-mold the beer tap handle as there were 2 small air bubbles in the small text. The worst place for air! So we had to scrap the mold and re-make it today. Sometimes things just work out that way!
We started the machining on the crash test dummy head this morning while we were waiting for the truck to pick up the last portion of the cruiser tables.

The model was imported into Aspire, where the toolpaths were quickly assigned. I decided to cut it with a 1/4" ballnose with a 4% stepover. This was a good combo of finish and machine time.


The machining didn't take very long, as usual, with our Techno cnc.

The neck pieces were pretty quick to fire together. I cut a series of disks from 3/8" rigid pvc, as well as the 1/2" black sintra from the cruiser table leftovers.

I wrapped the rigid pvc in brushed aluminum vinyl for the metal look the neck seems to have in the reference images. The neck is a little long, but this should give them some compositing room after they shoot him.  I had our Techno cnc make two small divots where the approximate eye locations will be.  These will insure that when we put the eyes in, that they will be accurately placed in relation to the nose and brow. I still have to drill out the holes in the back of the head for the two bolts that "hold" the rear head plate on. The crash head will get primed and painted tomorrow, then he'll be off to the studio for his acting debut!

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JO