This gives you the advantages above, plus it has a deeper aluminium ring. Moebius replacement, version B: a deeper replacement set for the Moebius kit. However it does not have the correct deeper ring interior since that would require enlarging the ~80mm hole in the black plate. That gives you the engraved lettering, the simulated lens threads, and an aluminium ring with a lower ring wall. Moebius replacement, version A: a simple drop-in replacement for the Moebius kit. I am working on four variants of the 3D printed design: This has to be cut off, and the remaining area has to be carefully rounded to match the rest of the ring. There's a spurious rectangular tab sticking out the top of the outer ring. The kit "lens" is a shallow dish, and doesn't look much like the real lens, which is actually quite deep. These threads were used by the lens cap on the original Nikon 8mm fisheye lens. The “lens” rings don’t have the correct threads in them. The plastic lens barrel ring can’t easily accommodate the substitute glass lenses that were recently marketed on eBay by a certain seller.
The two thin clear plastic “lenses” aren’t very convincing and don’t look much like the original, which was an actual camera lens from Nikon that had solid glass lenses. Even VAG Rounded (the old Volkswagen font) would've been closer since it has even strokes.
It looks to me like the decal uses Rocko, a cheap font from the 1990s which is a sort of round typeface. The decal for the lettering doesn’t emulate the original engraved lettering.
The lens barrel doesn’t have engraved lettering on it - they just supply a waterslide decal. As a result the Moebius lens isn’t recessed correctly. The bottom of the ring interior should be below the level of the black plate. The aluminium ring interior isn’t deep enough. I think that might be a bit low, though - not sure) (fortunately this does mean you can probably get the aluminium ring a bit closer to prototype by carefully cutting off the protruding outer edge of the aluminium ring, and sanding the top surface smooth and flat. ie: the visible part of the ring sticks out too high past the black plate. The top of the aluminium ring is also too high. A superfluous extra groove or recess was added to the inside of the aluminium ring. So here are a few notes about the Moebius representation of the Nikkor fisheye, and the lens model I've been working on. So - hope this latest addition to our current glut of 2001 prop replicas is of interest to someone! But I'm not going to add speakers and audio players at this point. I'm going to light it, since the red glow is essential to the look of the piece. I'll therefore use modern construction methods and materials, so long as they look reasonably convincing on the outside. I'm not concerned about attempting to replicate the construction methods used for the original props. So if I come across an affordable Nikon lens somewhere down the line I can drop it in. While my replica will contain a fake 3D-printed lens, it will be modelled as closely as I can afford to the real lens, particularly the sizing. However, those lenses typically go for £1000-$1300 USD each, and I can't justify the expense at this point. This may seem to contradict the previous goal, and of course it does. Will not contain an actual Nikkor 8mm f/8 lens. Must look as close as possible to the film props. The basic parameters I'm using for my replica are:
#HAL 9000 REPLICA YOUTUBE MOVIE#
I'm basing my work on the ludicrously detailed research I did on the original movie HAL 9000 faceplates, published in the link below: Basically I'm aiming for as screen-accurate a replica as I can make, matching the HAL brain room sign I made a little while back. There are quite a few going on here right now, but they all seem to have generally different focuses, and I didn't want to keep adding my own comments hijack-style to other people's.Īnyway. Yes, this is yet another HAL 9000 faceplate thread, I'm afraid.
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