I just finished making myself a Megamorphix today, Its a puzzle I wanted for some time but I only just got around to making it. I made square tubing for the longer extensions using 1mm plastic sheet and capped it all with the same, the smaller triangle extensions were spare offcuts from other 4x4x4 mods.
Its fully stickered and finished, but I havent taken those pictures yet, I'll do them in the morning (its just gone midnight here).
Heres some of the progress pictures.
Cheers

A much cleaner build than my own. Well done. Can't wait to see the finished product!

Your mods are... Perfect.
Fantastic!

-Doug

That looks like so much work requiring so much precision. Good job. Way beyond what I have the time / skill / motivation for.

That looks fantastic!
I never concidered building my own tube. Thats a great idea for extensions!
Thanks!

what did you use to cut the tubes? If you use a saw to cut and then sand down, the method is like mine, but the process is very slow.

Minh Thang

Thanks everyone.

Yes Minh, I think we do it the same way.
I cut the tubes with a small hacksaw close to where they should be and then glued all the extensions on,
then using a dremel I removed any excess a little closer, and then the final shape was fine tuned using sandpaper on wood.
All the joins where the plastic sheet capping meet were filled with milliput and then smoothed.

My motivation for building like this is the enjoyment of working with my hands,
I agree, it is a lot of work, but I love the process
Cheers.

Heres the finished puzzle.

All the work was worth it, it's beautiful

Looks like you used the exact same colors I ordered from cubesmith too! I feel so one-upped! But seriously, what a fantastic job. I hope mine will turn out half as well. Did you hand-cut the stickers or are they machined?

Yours looks great already too, I was amazed when I saw your pictures last night, that I had been making the same puzzle, in the same way, at about the same time, and bearing in mind that this is quite an old puzzle now, you don't see many about.

Yes, I handcut the stickers for all my puzzles, this one doesn't take too long,
its those Gear Cube mods that test the patience in cutting stickers by hand

Colors are - Red, White, Yellow & Bright Blue.

do you have any other pictuers or the un pasted stae? I am trying to build me one, and cannot seem to wrap my head aroud it completely... any help to see how they are set when the cube us turn would be appreciated.



thanks

Wow I am bummed out, I couldn't find a good picture of the megamorphix in constructions like yours, and I really wanted to get started. My twisty puzzles account was still being verified, so I tried to figure it out myself. I only truncated on corner so far but I truncated it all the way into 2 of the center pieces, thinking that was what I was supposed to do. Is there anyway I can still continue? I hope there is. I anyone needs a picture if dont know understand what I've done then please tell me.

@ Squircifer - I'm not sure what you mean by un pasted ? Do you mean before the extensions are stuck on ?

@ PieFilmProductionsd
Yes a picture would be good. I think you can continue, you would have to make the other 3 cuts the same as what you've already done.
Andreas may know for sure, I think his version here was made by overcutting ?
http://twistypuzzles.com/cgi-bin/puzzle.cgi?pkey=2498

I was trying to puzzle out the placements for the extentions and all.... tried to wrap my mind around it.. thought some pictures of how the tubes were made and placed on the puzzle would hrlp me make my version. I am starting a nornal 3x3 morphinx for the first project. them move on to the 4 5 6 7 and mybe more... we shall see. so if you have any piccs liek that that would be appreciatred ,,,,


Mark

Here are some pictures of the truncations and extensions required to build a megamorphix.






Hope this helps

wow, those are great pictures Gus.

great!! thanks much... now i can wrap my head around it better. once i make the morphinxes i will post pics. although my mods are nowhere near the level of most builders...