Steam punk-ish Nixie Clock

Hi,

Though I'll share my latest build with you. I'm busy designing and building a steam punk-ish Nixie tube clock. I'm using IN-14 nixie tubes and did the design for my PC-boards on KiCAD and converted the gerber files tog-code with FlatCam.

Here is my PC-Board and Niixie tubes Mounted on them.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps5oyvembx.jpg

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psa3l4ceid.jpg

The design of my clock is inspired from a clock that I saw on Instructables but there was no designs shared since the designer is selling the clocks, thus I decided to design my own.

Here are some renderings of my clock design thus far, I still have one or two things to finish.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psaonir6q7.png

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps1o8wrzae.png

Got all my part printed. Now it must sprayed with spray filler and then I must sand them down. Will update once I'm done with this step.


http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psjbagdjxs.jpg

This is going to be a cool clock!

OK so I spray filled everything, sanded it down again and the copper pieces were sprayed and then "steampunked"
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I thought I'll show you how I steampunk my prints. Here are some parts I forgot about yesterday. They were sprayed with normal rattle cans (think that is what you call them in the States)
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...pspvj9hvng.jpg

The texture you see on them was done with rustoleum texture spray.

First step is paint them with a mixture of wood stain and brown ink.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...pscao4lgio.jpg

I give them about 3 coats, waiting for it to dry in between coats.
Then I dry brush them with copper paint to bring some copper color back

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psaxvwp53h.jpg

The last step is very light dry brushing with gold paint just to give highlights.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psudwbanjr.jpg

Done.

This is an awesome steel clock! Great going!

gold parts sprayed and aged:


http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...pskaxuylot.jpg

I assembled two of the nixie clock "lanterns" and then ran out of threaded rod. Will assemble the last one as soon I get 3mm threaded rod again.


After this is the electronics ... not one of my strong points


http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps7edrzlpx.jpg

I made a ISP programmer to program the ATMega328 that will control the nixie tubes. It is not pretty but it works.


http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psila1o8dl.jpg

Fantastic!! Well Done!!!!!!!

Now that I've seen the finished product, all I can say is superb! Great work!

Been many months since I last updated this thread but it was also many months of saving for the woodworking tools I needed to make the stands for my lanterns.

I'm finished with the first stand and now 2 more to go.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps3u7tcylr.jpg

So the hardware side is 90% complete. Just need to print a box for the electronics and dising and print some feet. Still waiting for the electronics and will update again once she is done.http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psix07pufk.jpghttp://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...psql21d6va.jpg

If anybody want to attempt it - files here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1145907

Last pictures of the clock. She is done at last. Made a box for the electronics and gave it feet/legs


http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps0df6hkdk.jpg

Looks like it was a great project.