Finally Finished!

I have now completed my model of the Velocity Mobile Phone designed by David Turpin.
After taking apart my model mocked up. I resprayed the screen section black with a little bit less matting agents so that it matched the shine of the actual acrylic screen. I then applied black marker to the edges of my acrylic screen. I tacked the screen in place with 4 tiny dots of super glue so that It could be removed with a scapal knife if needed for any reason. I then decided to apply black permanent marker to the loops either side of the keyboard. This worked very well with the exception of one minor smudge, which I removed with small amounts of t cut. I then check my drawings for where the screen should be placed and measured it out. I then tacked it down with some super glue, which worked very well.
I am very pleased with how the model looks with some minor exceptions, such as the paint job. I wish I had produced another colour for the keyboard section. I dont think the black of the screen section and the colour of the keyboard section work too well with each other.

There were some setbacks at the start of the this project with size issues etc. But I think I have built this model very successfully if not a little too slow.
There are some things that I can do to make this model look better, such as having a variety of photos including models in hands to show size and detail.

I think this model would have been a much quicker build If I had planned less and sorted out the size issues before the project even began. I need to stop over planning and drawing and just produce sketch models and small sketches. This seems to work better than using rhino and trying to visualise things rather than actually making and thiking about making.

Anyway!

Overall If I had spent less time planning and more time making this model would have been done much much quicker! I am happy with the final outcome and I have spoken to my designer David Turpin and he seems to be very happy with the outcome. I will talk with him further to see whether he wants the model or is interested in further work together with hopefully oppurtunities of freelance work.

Mock Up photograph

With help from my tutor who has very good knowledge of photography I used an digital SLR with a lighting kit to take some photographs of my model temporarily mocked up. My tutor then helped me on photoshop to give it simple but effective lighting effects. I am very pleased with the photo and I hope it looks even better when completely finished.

I will now finish my model and post the end results with an evaluation.

Mock Up!

I have now applied my printed screen onto the chemiwood screen section and the keyboard has been painted. I have taken some photos today with it temporarily stuck together. There are still things to do such as paint the loops on either side of the phone black and also to respray the screen section black. And in the photos i have noticed that the acrylic screens edges can be seen, so I am planning to apply permanent black marker on all four sides of the 0.5mm acrylic.

Keyboard!

I have now applied a solution of watered down black acrylic paint into the laser cut engravings on the keyboard. It was a very long and tricky process, I used a very fine paint brush and applied a small blob of paint per letter. Sometimes the paint would overflow out of the engraved area but using tiny bits of tissue to dab and wipe the excess paint worked very well. I let it dry for a full day as it was very watered down. I think it was a great success and looks fantastic. Although next time I do something similar to this I will make sure I use an even higher engrave setting to create a deeper cut line, I think this would make it much easier to apply paint into the required areas.