"user314" (user314)
11/21/2018 at 14:55 • Filed to: fifth element, 3d printing, multipass, Movies, movielopnik
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"user314" (user314)
11/21/2018 at 14:55 • Filed to: fifth element, 3d printing, multipass, Movies, movielopnik | 5
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We recently did away with our mag s tripe ID cards at work, upgrading to RFID readers. As a result, we all got new cards. I found !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on Shapeways a while back, and knew the time was right!
If you don’t recognize the Multi Pass, it’s a bit of futuretech from Luc Besson’s 1997 scifi epic The Fifth Element .
A M ulti P ass is basically your ID, credit card and passport all rolled up in one. The protagonist inserts his Multi Pass into a reader in his taxi to start his shift, then into another reader at a starport to board a spaceliner.
You can buy pre-made prop replicas, but where’s the fun in that? Shapeways allows people to u pload 3d files, then print them out in various qualities of plastic, metal, or ceramic. My Multi Pass arrived vapor polished, but required a bit of fine-tuning in the card slot and lanyard opening, then painting. The main body is painted in a mix of aluminum and gunship gray, accented with a black wash. I painted the two rods, the large round button and the smaller square white, then the two rods yellow and the large button yellow. A little steel for weathering, and two coats of flat lacquer to seal, followed up with gloss over the buttons and rods.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> user314
11/21/2018 at 15:25 |
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MonkeePuzzle
> user314
11/21/2018 at 16:03 |
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epic!
BJ
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
11/21/2018 at 16:07 |
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You’re just jealous, and so is everyone who stars this post.
I would star it twice if I could!
ttyymmnn
> user314
11/27/2018 at 14:24 |
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