Terminator CPU brain chip.

 

Recently i was given a little glass dome as a gift and i wanted to make a little prop to go inside it.

The dome had the space for something about 8cm long, So i thought about what props i could make. 

I came to he conlution that the brain chip from terminator 2 would look good under the glass dome. 

So as usual i started by doing a little resarch on the old interwebs. 

i found a couple of screen grabs that have other stuff in the shot to give it scale.

 

from these i worked out the size and from other photos of licenced props (bad plastic recasts) i found i worked out the correct amount of cubes on the CPU.

so i drew up some plans on Illustrator and marked out where the damage on the broken chip would go.

After the plans were finished i cut out all the parts on a laser cutter.

With all the parts cut out i assembled the chips. 

i made enough parts to make a damaged chip and a complete chip.

After assembly i gave all the parts a coat of plastic primer. then the chips got a coat of brass/gold paint and the base discs got a coat of a metalic grey/silver.

after the gold and silver had dried i set about making the cubes on the CPU look like the photos. I mixed up two batches of a rust/brick red brown one slightly darker than the other. 

the lighter, more red paint went on the complete chip and the darker red/brown went on the damaged worn chip.

Once the brown paint had dried on the damaged chip i set about making it look more damaged/fire damaged/dirty.

i took a lighter with a large flame and melted/singed and just messed up the broken end of the chip.

Also with some brown and blacks i made it look rusty and dirty and weathered.

The base discs got the same weathering ttreatment. 

i made one look clean and one look old and rusty. 

these discs are based on the port that the chips are pulled out of inside the terminators head. 

i made a small wire section that would hold the chips up so they would be on show.

 

 

 I put the broken one in the glass dome as i wanted it to look like the one they stole from cyberdyne systems in the second film. 

Thanks for looking. 

If you have any questions or comments please leave it in the comment section below or you can email me and i will try to respond.