MNL’s Full House of RP Services

MNL uses Full House of RP Services to produce Goalpoker Trophy in two weeks.

Goalpoker.com is an internet based poker website with very large prizes at stake. They named the site Goalpoker with a football theme, promoting poker with Premiership level prize money. In March this year they held a special tournament which deserved not only high value cash prizes but also a special trophy.

MNL was commissioned to supply the football part of the trophy. With just over two weeks to design and produce the trophy, MNL had to use a high percentage of its RP facilities.

The desired trophy was to be similar to a football with card suits arranged on the centres of the hexagonal patches and Pickles the dog stood on the top. (Pickles was the dog who found the stolen World Cup trophy in 1966).

The modern football design has its roots based on the 1970 World Cup ball. The first live televised World Cup was Mexico in 1970. Addidas designed a new ball especially for television. This new design had 12 black pentagons each surrounded by white hexagons. The black and white ball was much easier to see on black and white television sets. The Telstar (Star of Television), as it became known, formed the basis for many future designs.

As there were only sketches available, 3D CAD had to be created. The Telstar design was the starting point. The truncated icosahedron, the technical name for the shape/pattern, was drawn up and the suits and circles soon followed. Within a couple of days a design was agreed upon.

The main part of the ball was produced in one hit by SLS using Glass-Filled Nylon, chosen for its strength and rigidity. The suit symbols were produced by SLA and finished to our usual high standards with a gloss finish. They were then used as masters for Silicon Tooling, from which the self-coloured PU castings were produced. The castings were glued in place in specially shaped recesses. A grassy base-plinth and Pickles on top completed the trophy.

Since 1971, Malcolm Nicholls Limited has established itself as one of the most prestigious prototyping companies in Europe. Priding itself on the quality of its work, MNL offer concept models through to fully operational working prototypes, for all market sectors.

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