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Martian Maggot

2024-01-14 11:12:16

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Summary

Why has no-one done this before!?
From the classic 1953 cartoon "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century", the original rendering of Marvin Martian's rocket-ship. Sadly most people these days have only ever seen the the clumsy CG-assisted representations from more recent animations, but when you Google it you're still shown the two images from that first apearance.
My first sketch off the TV has languished in the 'to make one day' pile for decades, until circumstances poked me recently.
My biggest challenge was the lettering painted on the sides: my hand-painting days are long passed. I ended up borrowing a Laser-cutter to make stencils from a sheet of self-adhesive paper labels. Perhaps the artwork included - a .dxf and a .psd file - could also be used with one of those 'Cricut' machines.

Print Settings

Printer brand:
Up
Printer:
Up Plus
Rafts:
Yes
Supports:
Yes
Resolution:
.1mm
Infill:
around 15-20%, denser on the wings and tail
Filament brand:
3D Fillies
Filament color:
brown, yellow
Filament material:
ABS
Notes:
To get an FDM printer to do all those little rivets cleanly, use your finest resolution (.1mm worked for me). No support should be needed on the rivets themselves, if you have that level of control in your settings.
Print the fuselage sections standing on their widest round end, except for the "NoseShroud" which works best standing on the small round end (and printing it on a raft helps ensure it doesn't fall over). The "Engine Cone" and "Engine Bell" also print best standing on thier small ends.
To avoid any 'driftwood' texture, print the wings and tailfin standing upright on their skinny little flat end, not lying down flat on their sides. Obviously this means the tail will have a long wall of support under it's tapering tip, but this didn't give me any problems. The "Dorsal Antenna" should also be printed standing upright - oriented as it will be on the finished model - at the finest resolution you have so the little balls print clearly. The web of support between the three 'fingers' may require delicate work to remove without breaking them. Tough.

Post-Printing

This is intended to sit horizontally on the wing tips and the rim of the tailcone, but as you see here, I found out too late it's actually slightly nose-heavy, so don't forget to add a small weight inside the "rear tail" section (beneath the tail fin).

PAINTING:

Masking off the body to spray the yellow bits. Note all the "Martian Maggot" stencils in the background.

For the body, all I had handy on the day was Tamiya XF60 Dark Yellow (WWII Panzer yellow), which actually looks a pretty good match. Their Lemon Yellow however has too much white in it, so I used Mr Hobby Aqueous H329, because it's all I had.
Actually I'd like to think the rocket was really a brassy/bronze colour with gold nose and fins.

Wrapped up again for the lettering. The lettering is specified as 'turquoise' on an original 1953 pencil shetch I found in my well-worn copy of "Chuck Amuck".

How I Designed This

Sketched off the TV decades ago.

As the variations between these two scenes from the cartoon show, the original illustrations can't be treated as precise 'blueprints', but have to be taken more as fairly quick sketches to illustrate the general appearance. These long-distance views don't include details like the shuttered window Marvin looks out of, or the opening for his 'Matomic Masher' to fire through. It is just a cartoon, not a 'historical document'.
(Apparently there's also a large hatch on the port side to let small saucers come and go, 'though I can't find what cartoon that's from:

This looks original - it's an early version of Bugs, but what's it from?

The "Engine Bell" I've included isn't shown in the original, but I thought something simple to draw was appropriate. I subsequently found this scene from "Rabbits Run" (2015) (dreadful - don't bother)