Shipped this beauty to NYC today.

[synergy_jim]

1/2" plexi 8X scale Nike Air Force One sneaker.

 

[SqueeGee]

Nice!

 

[James Burke]

Wow, that is awesome. I'm sure it weights a lot. Any internal lighting on it?


JB

 

[Chasez]

very cool! great job!

Chaz

 

[Pete Moss]

slick!

 

[Speedsterbeast]

Very Cool.
Can you tell us more about the project?

 

[bigben]

wow! I would also like to know more about the project.

 

[geb]

very nice, different, more details please.

 

[decalman]

Nice going.
Does it come with a sock?

........well I had to ask....I got big feet

 

[HDvinyl]

The true definition of Nike Air.

 

[WrapSpot]

How did you cut the pieces of acrylic?

 

[Oroscoe]

Very Nice

 

[nikdoobs]

Super Badass. We need deets. How did you land this job? Did you design it or did Nike? Do you have More pics? How is it held together?

 

[TrustMoore_TN]

That's very cool! At this year's SEMA show, there was an entire car silhouette that was done the same way with "slices" of acrylic, but had edge lighting on the bottom surface so that the LED's fired up and it looked incredible. My boss was out there setting up several booths for our customers that exhibit there and took some pics. I'll see if I can find them and post.

 

[synergy_jim]

Super Badass. We need deets. How did you land this job? Did you design it or did Nike? Do you have More pics? How is it held together?

The entire project was cut from 1/2" cast clear acrylic. We used a .375 2 flute plexi bit from Onsrud for the rough pass and a .375 polishing but for the finish pass. The spacers between each section were recessed into each 1/2" rib 1/4" deep. We used weld on 16 to attach the spacers.

The toe and heel sections were bonded to each other and bolted to the steel frame to square the entire assembly up. We were very careful not to over stress the plexi when tightened and used rubber washers and steel washers on both ends. There is no lighting except what was installed at the store ( Down lighting i believe. )

Now, on to the design.

We were sent a very rough 3D mesh to work with. I spent the better part of a week cleaning up the mesh, slicing it into 152 even sections, then programming them.. Enroute Pro was used for all the slicing and tool path creation. We cut the entire assembly on our Multicam 3000 router and it performed flawlessly.

The concept was sent to us via and ad agency and we were contacted by the fixture company that was doing the build out for the entire store. Basically they sent us some sketches and the mesh and said.... " do you think this will work..?"

The answer is YES.

 

[synergy_jim]

Why in the world would someone dislike the answer to a question?

The entire project was cut from 1/2" cast clear acrylic. We used a .375 2 flute plexi bit from Onsrud for the rough pass and a .375 polishing but for the finish pass. The spacers between each section were recessed into each 1/2" rib 1/4" deep. We used weld on 16 to attach the spacers.

The toe and heel sections were bonded to each other and bolted to the steel frame to square the entire assembly up. We were very careful not to over stress the plexi when tightened and used rubber washers and steel washers on both ends. There is no lighting except what was installed at the store ( Down lighting i believe. )

Now, on to the design.

We were sent a very rough 3D mesh to work with. I spent the better part of a week cleaning up the mesh, slicing it into 152 even sections, then programming them.. Enroute Pro was used for all the slicing and tool path creation. We cut the entire assembly on our Multicam 3000 router and it performed flawlessly.

The concept was sent to us via and ad agency and we were contacted by the fixture company that was doing the build out for the entire store. Basically they sent us some sketches and the mesh and said.... " do you think this will work..?"

The answer is YES.