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Shoes: Unchanged
Pants: Bought two, because I wanted the pattern, but hated the fit, so I changed the narrow legs to somewhat bell-bottom shape, turning two into one.
Sports bra: Unchanged, needed to be there bc ...
White hood thing: Has giant cutouts from the side. Added Iron-on patch
Jacked: Turned a Motorcycle jacket into a crop-top. Just noticed that the custom made patch on the back comes across in exactly zero pictures. Oh well.
"Cyberdeck": Printed this file , much sanding, painting, cursing. No actual computing power inside, just a LED video light panel. Custom sewn lanyard (is that the word?)
MakeUp: Designed and soldered the heart-patches for the first look. Power supply came from LED-lashes (those where a short lived craze, I think). Both MakeUp looks where done by a MakeUp artist, I can do a lot, but that's black magic to me... apparently caused her to go down quite the rabbit-hole with anti-facial-recognition MakeUp. (Doesn't work in practice, do not expect to deflock the neighborhood anonymously with some camo)

It helps, of course, to attach the whole assembly to an incredibly pretty friend of mine (I was the bearded dude behind the camera...)

Just found this subreddit. Some of you are very inspirational, some posts are quite bizarre to me, as I think Punk=D.I.Y.
Looking forward to seeing more of y'all :)

strw_brry is an oc (original character) from my own cyberpunk writing project.

Hacker-girly looking for love in a cold city. So if you see her, with glowing heart stickers* under her eyes, and she smiles at you...well, then you where most likely deemed an easy mark and your money, access-permissions and personal data is currently migrating to her.

*Different prop shown here before.

The Girly3000

3D printed shell from a file I bought years ago, which in turn is based on the excellent "Mr3000" Design over on artstation.(Yes, I got very creative with the naming)

I started it then, long before strw_brry was thought off and needed equipment.

The file was evidently made by somebody (I forgot to note the creator, sry) who was very adept at making files for video-games. This doesn't translate well into a 3D print. Holes for parts shown in the render where missing, the hardware I got for it (RaspberryPi&touchscreen) didn't beginn to entertain the idea of considering to fit.

I was also much less experienced and created a frankly abhorrent paintjob.

Fast forward almost ten years and strw_brry needs equipping.

I go through my abandoned-projects pile and find the parts. Sand off the shitty paintjob, apply filler, sand it to 800grit till things get shiny. Apply basecoat, leave on balcony to dry. Come back to find that one of the hottest days of the summer has Dali-fied the PLA parts. Bite into table (Important step).

Well, I have improved much as a 3D-printer operator, and the printer I have access to also drastically improved. So reprint it is. After some very necessary edits to the file.

Starting the 20hour job, coming back the next day...print has failed halfway through due to a nozzle clog. Huh, that hasn't happened in a while. Bite into table (feel free to switch up the position).

Reprint for real.

Sand, fill, sand, make parts fit together at all, glue pieces which are supposed to be one. Fill. Sand. Basecoat, paint etc...

Notice that the electronics still don't entertain the idea of going in this.

Cut lightbox acrylic to fit and print some "screens" onto transparent plastic.

LED lamp for filming goes in with double sided tape.

Some hardware (real antennae, buttons, pink-eloxed-aluminium bolts) rounds out the look.

A whole bunch of Hello-Kitty Nail-Stickers add some visual interest. (Model was very happy, being sonewhat Hello-Kitty decorated herself, with two tattoos)

Good enough for a stage prop^^

I asked about the softness of these images over a analogCommunity, and people seemed to like it, so here is more.
Loreley, or "The Loreley" was a folklore cryptid (I guess) who sank boats on the rhine.
She achieved this by sitting on a rock in view of the river, combing her long blond hair and looking pretty. Somehow she is blamed for dudes stearing their ships onto the rocks because they couldn't stop oggling her. victim blaming, if you ask me...
Current waterlevels on the rhine not withstanding, the only commonality between my model and her story is beautiful blonde hair.
Location is, btw. a 100% artificial waterfall set up in the late 1800s. You can see the tip of the Kreuzberg Memorial, atop the Kreuzberg (Cross-Mountain, bit of a grandiose term), in the Berlin district of Neukölln...the district next to the district Kreuzberg, named after...yeah.

I am used to the Mamiya lens being SHARP. In the second image, you can see some 90s sitcom dream-sequence kind of focus.
Yeah, you can see single hairs, and there is nothing sharper anywhere in frame, so at least I didn't mess up the focus. This time.
Is it just the shooting somewhat into the sun?
Film was some Fuji RVP100 that I found in the back of my fridge, apparently best before 2017, time flies.

This gap had been filled with automotive fillter, sanded flatand decided to open again under very minimal stress.

You can see also a couple of other seamlines here, where I decided progress beats perfectionism, but I could swear my wet-sanding ~400grit pass pulled filler out of some smaller cracks and seams.

First pass was spray-on filler, btw, which sticks without issues.

This illustration is by DaveKeen on instagram.
I am a self-taught CAD user, and I like to make props for my photoshoots, which brings us to these goggles.
How do professionals approach something that is hard, yet conforming to the human body?
I had some old 3D Headsets to disassemble, sadly they are super bulky, owing to the reality of optics. Same for Goggles for FPV-Drones.
The closest I found was historic Inuit snow-goggles but even then: How to figure out measurements that are somewhere close to "fits on an actual human"
Decades of wearing glasses have taught me that designers do not consider my head-width, so measuring myself is kinda out.
Sorry for rambling and if this isn't the scope of the group, but I figured you are the kind of people that design swim-goggles and such^^

Life story part of the recipe blog:
So, I do photography quite a bit, and I wanted something Cyberpunk-esque. I have more classic looks on that topic coming up, but my favourite book in the genre is "Walkaway" by Corey Doctorow.
In that, the protagonists do live in a world full of future tech and corporatism, but instead of joining a gang of criminals, they walk away from it all, into places nobody wants to live anymore, taking their 3D-printers, and Medication-Fabbers with them.(Which, of course, makes them criminals.)
First problem: It's a book with zero fan-art, scarce descriptions of outfits, and most of the time, the characters dress like somebody who lives in the woods. Because they do.
So I largely left outfit choice to my models, which left us with some rather fashionable walkaways.(Not complaining, it was fun working with them)
I am also kinda fond of the Nomads in Cyberpunk2077, so I wanted a desert environment, courtesy of the local botanical garden.
Hot tip: The greenhouse is not the place to be during a record-breaking heatwave.
They opened the windows and started the ventilation in the desert-house.
As it turns out, the "barely covered" outfit was the right choice, as she was the only one not completely drenched in sweat by the end.

Actual prop making:
The design is loosely based on the Cyberpunk2077 Radio you use in one of the earliest scenes.
I actually had a 3D printed version of that before, it was terrible to assemble and I found no way to light it.
This one, I designed around a cheap Aliexpress RGB-Lightpanel, simplifying the in-game design a little. Printed in PETG
Spray-filler, and sanding (Which idiot put all these little recesses in the design?? Oh, right...)
Sprayed it with "Gobi" from the Montana - Black line. I haven't got the fuzziest clue why one of the parts started developing scales. re-sand and re-paint.
Hit with matte-varnish, also by Montana.
The outer parts I wanted to look rubberized, so they got spray-on rubber (sold for car-rims).
Then everything got assembled and doused in thinned acrylic paint, some black, some brown.
The spray-on-rubber didn't appreciate that much, but it came out okay.
Everything is held together with a bunch of magnets, allowing me to put the LED light in and out.
My local print shop offers printing on overhead-projector-foil, so that's what constitutes the "screen"
I also put a thin piece of felt between the light and the "display" so the hotspots from the LEDs aren't that prominent.

I heard "weirdly shaped screw slit" every old japanse camera has was originally invented to fit some specific yen coin.
I have a camera where that thing is plastic and already rather mangled, I would like to figure out the intended size and 3D print a mangle-less screwdriver for it.
Anybody got an idea?
Otherwise I need to turn some weebs in my friend group upside down, shake, and compare what comes out their pockets....

Image stolen from https://www.camerasbymax.co.uk/

Sally Mann - At warm springs,1991
Do you think there is anything more than what I very artistically rendered in paint?
Am I off by a mile?
Heading to the lake on saturday and I can't get rid of the feeling that I'm entirely wrong.

EDIT:thanks to u/focusproblems who pointed out that I was right with the direction, but far off with distances and light source, as warm springs refers to baths with cutouts in the ceiling-domes

How do I put a fake screen in here? I'm thinking plexiglass, Foil-print, white diffursor and a LED strip around the perimeter?
Anybody fakes something like this before? Tips, Tricks, Pitfalls?

While there is technically enough space for a RaspberryPi and an actual screen, the combo I have doesn't fit right side up. Wrong way around the ports are covered... Frustrating mess. Also not willing to drop a lot of money on a thing I will use for 1-2 Photoshoots

Edit: I am reasonably certain I badgered this gentleman for the fiels, back in the day...
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XL6eL

Taught myself PCB-design* for this one.
27 tiny** LED placed and soldered by hand on transparent material curtesy of JLCPCB***
Hopefully soon going on the face of a model for a cyberpunk shoot... Model that hopefully looks less grumpy than me, in the process.

*I got called names in the KiCAD subreddit, so please don't ask me for design advice, apparently this will somehow burn my house down (They have many reasonable people there, but the unreasonable ones are REALLY unreasonable)

**0402 red (I also tried purple and pink. Purple turned out to be UV LED and kind of faint, Pink is best enjoyed wearing welding-goggles)

***Not sponsored, but damn they take care of people who don't know what they are doing. Also I need like 2 of these, minimum orders being what they are, I ended up with 125 for less than 40€

Shot on paper negative, attempted to develop on sight, first turned largely black in less than 5 seconds, it's the more streaky one.
Second I pulled through the developer and watched it turn much slower.
Both hampered by the fact that I didn't consider the tray size before starting.
Turned positive digitally