STARGATE SG-1 - T.E.R : Transphase Eradication Rod

I have been comissionned by the original production molds owner to make a limited run of 30 T.E.R.

We could have done more, but the goal wasn’t to use the mold until it dies and trash it, but to preserve it along pulling out the 30 units run.

Compare to others molds, i figured out out it was a pretty recent mold made by the production. The first seasons molds are made in order to save as much as materials as possible (matrix molds), probably due to low budget from the beginning, those TER molds are made with A LOT of silicone materials, could have saved a lot by doing matrix molds, but those take about two days to make vs dumb molds, which can take less than an afternoon using fast curing silicone and way less hassle.

So they are pretty heavy to play with.

Unfortunatly the production didn’t molded a pristine TER, casts had lots of defects such has bubbles, paint stroke, etc but hopefully no wraps.

In order to avoid the resin to bond with the wood frames molds i applied vaseline on them.

Those were cast with PU84 polyurethane resin, from Esprit Composite.

The previous molds owner had ripped off the tip of the bottom of the TER body, so i cast one, remove the excess resin, and carved the cast in order to create a void, then put the cast into the mold and poured silicone into the area the has been ripped off. What it does is filling the missing silicone and also filling the void created into the cast, that way, the void doesn’t have to be created on every casts, it saves a lot of labour time.

Each cast had to be cleaned, which means a lot of sanding, bongo filling, wetsanding, etc etc before being painted, this process take few hours per TER cast.

Painting : each casts are primmed with black automotive primer, then secret mix of paints (NDA) all the way until the sealcoat.

The electronics kit has been made by a company in UK , Custom Electronics.

A 10mm diameter hole is drilled all along the bottom body to house the led kit.

Upon Stargate Prop Shop request, the covering battery handle were attached to the main body with neodyme magnets, i would have rather like using regular screws and and metal threaded heads.

The clear tip of the TER doens’t had any mold, so SPS loan me his original TER to make a mold of this clear part, those was cast with smooth cast 325 series resin, small amount of resin do not cure as yellowish as bigger amount, it’s less agressive to the mold, and cure faster than any epoxy or polyurethane clear resins (crystal clear, epoxacast, etc)

The original TER from SPS was assembled only with araldite glue, in order to give more strenght to the casts i did, i used screws and epoxy glue to assemble the parts together, i wanted something sturdy, as the glue itself doesn’t provide enought strenght, the top and bottom body from the original TER was actually unglued from eachother.

Final results :

We auctionned off one of this TER for Sea Shepherd during the Gatecon convention in Vancouver (september 2016)