tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70251950773384771332024-03-16T01:09:48.857+00:00Backwards Lamb PropsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025195077338477133.post-54467059500581265912020-05-04T10:17:00.002+01:002020-05-04T10:19:11.621+01:00Death Star Escape DVD (book) Nook <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I have wanted to make a book nook for some time, so taking advantage of the lockdown situation where we are at the moment I decided to give one a go. </div>
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I tried to think of things to make a d I have lots of ideas.</div>
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I settled with a Star Wars themed nook. </div>
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Seeing as we have more Star Wars DVDs than books (of the same size that sit nicely together) I came to the conclusions that a DVD nook was what was called for. So here it is. </div>
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I forgot to take progress shots of the making so you will just have to live with the finished item and a quick explanation of what I did. </div>
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All the materials were ones I had in the house so there are probably ways to make it better, but I used what I had. </div>
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I made the whole thing at an HO scale (1:87) as that the scale I like to work at. </div>
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The outer box was made with 2mm headboard and just glued together with the top loose to allow for battery changing etc. It is held on with magnets. </div>
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All the detail parts are 3D printed on my ender 3 in PLA and painted grey (as I only had white filament. </div>
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The walls are angled to give an illusion of depth and to allow for lighting to go behind the panels to light up the details. </div>
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The figures are HO figures cut up and customised to look like Luke and Leia swinging to freedom. </div>
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The stormtrooper in the background is not too well made but his right back there so you can see how poor the details are. </div>
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It’s about the width of 4 standard DVD cases. So it fits in our DVD rack with the prequels on one side and the original trilogy on the other. </div>
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<u>Blade Runner Water Pistol Blaster Paint Up.</u><br />
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I recently just purchased a Water pistol by Fullcock. </div>
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these are getting very costly on eBay and other selling websites, I got mine from japan for a good deal cheaper than all of the eBay selling places, and it took a good month or so for delivery. </div>
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when it came i was very excited. This gun will go with my Han Solo blaster with an idea to complete my trilogy of Harrison guns. The third being one of the pistols from Indiana Jones films. (although this may be a little hard for me as being in the UK its hard to find correct (realistic looking) replicas of real fire arms.) </div>
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The water pistol came in a rather cool looking plastic bag. All the information is in a language i have no clue how to read but it doesnt really matter here. </div>
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The content of the bag were as such: </div>
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The water pistol itself and two little clippy on things. </div>
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The orange one being for UK laws, any replica that looks like a real gun (almost anything that's gun shape) has to have an orange tip to show its a fake/toy gun. </div>
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The little black ring when clipped on looks more realistic and that is the option i will be putting on my water pistol. (im not going outside with this gun, and if i do i can put the orange tip on) </div>
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This water pistol is a pretty good replica of the blaster used in the film. </div>
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It is a fairly good size and fits in the hand really well. </div>
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I started prepping the gun by masking off the amber grips, i am masking these off as trying to remove them feels like it would crack either the grips or the body of the gun, this is not what i want to happen.</div>
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The orange handle of the gun is going to be the only bit i do not paint as the original props had lovely amber transparent grips. </div>
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Once the grips are masked off i started with filing and sanding down the seam of the two halves of the plastic shell. The reason for this is two fold, one is to remove the visual line that the join makes when painted. two is because I will have to sand the whole gun to give the paint something to grip to. </div>
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i went all the way round the guns joining seam and sanded it down feeling it and looking at it under the light to check i had removed the seam correctly. </div>
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Above is the Water pistol once i had given the whole thing (the bots i could get to with the sand paper.) a rubbing with some fine sand paper.</div>
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Once the paint was on the gun the details really came out. The detail that the designers have gone to are really great. <br />
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When the primer paint had dried i gave it a coat of silver chrome. this will be the main colour of the gun then i will remask the silver and paint certain parts black. <br />
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I feel there are two reasons for this. The paint i used was a little old and the temperature was very low when i painted it. Environmental factors play a great part of how well a paint comes out, and this is a perfect example of why you should have a good temperature when spray painting. </div>
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when the silver had dried i masked all the parts i wanted to keep silver and then spray painted the gun with a flat black. </div>
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Once the black paint had dried I removed all the tape to reveal the colours and the lovely amber grips. </div>
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In the above photos you can see some parts where the black has seeped under the masking tape, I will correct this in the weathering and finishing steps later. </div>
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Finishing the gun was a multi stage process and i totally forgot to take photos of it step by step but here are the final results. </div>
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First i used some chrome brush on paint to brighten up the silver sections (after the poor spray paint results)<br />
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I then used some black acrylic paint to weather the silver sections of the gun and to touch up parts that i masked off when i should have left it to get sprayed black. (namely the rear of the handle.)<br />
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My Indiana Solo Deckard trilogy of replica blasters is nearly complete. </div>
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I recently purchased a model kit of the robot from the film short circuit. </div>
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This is how i got the kit from the website : <a href="http://www.wantedmall.com/" target="_blank">wantedmall</a></div>
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lots of bits an no instructions what so ever. (this photo is from their website.) </div>
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The kit is ok but the molds seem old and a bit tired so there is quite a
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I dry built the kit (no glue) so i could take it apart for painting and tinkering. </div>
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<u>No Disassemble Johnny Five! </u> </div>
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So after i built him i took him apart again. </div>
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I masked off the bits that couldn't deal with paint. (electronics, lights and gears etc.) </div>
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It was still quite a lot of bits! </div>
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After masking i painted the whole lot with a primer and then a metallic dark silver paint. i didn't think he should be painted chrome or bright silver so that's why i went with the dark silver. <br />
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Again i rebuilt him into a few bigger parts and masked him off again, this time leaving just the parts that are to be metallic blue uncovered.</div>
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After spraying the blue parts blue, I removed the masking and built johnny fully. </div>
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I have had a Graflex flash handle replica for well over ten years and back then i made a EL wire lightsaber and recently i dug it out and decided to make a nice crystal chamber reveal. (or at least i would try to do a nice crystal chamber reveal hilt, this is my attempt. ) </div>
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Recently my wife purchased a pair of the trainers worn by Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) in Suicide Squad, They are pretty awesome. She jokingly mentioned that I would have to make her the baseball bat that she uses in the film. </div>
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Not to take a challenge lightly I made the baseball bat :) </div>
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I did a little googling and found a few images of the screen used bat. one such image had a full 360degree view of the bat. </div>
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using this image and some others (im pretty sure they are replicas and souvenirs) they helped me work out what to put on the bat and the spacing for the main components. </div>
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Once i got a suitable bat that didnt have any markings or branding I measured the length and scaled the images i had to the right size so i could work out the size and position of the 'GOOD NIGHT' text on the front of the bat. </div>
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I traced out the lettering of 'GOOD NIGHT' and printed them out to the right size to match the bat. cut it up and taped it in position on the bat. this will be my guide for marking the words out on the bat. </div>
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Once the template was taped in place i wrapped some tracing paper round the bat and traced the words on the paper while it was all in place on the bat. </div>
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leaving one side of the tracing paper taped onto the bat so it would be returned into place, i used a soft 7B pencil to colour the back of the letters. </div>
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When the tracing paper is wrapped back round the bat and traced over the lettering again, which transferred the soft pencil onto the bat. (its like a home made sheet of carbon paper)</div>
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I then went over the faint pencil lines with a thin permanent pen. </div>
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I then used a red permanent marker to fill the letters in red. (Im using red markers as it lets the grain of the bat show through and I feel its more like something Harley would do.) </div>
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Using a non-permanent fibre tip pen and a cotton bud i coloured the edges in and blended the black into the letters to give them the airbrushed fade to black look seen in the source images. </div>
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I wrapped some more tracing paper round the bat again, this time the join is over the letters on the front. </div>
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The aim of this is to get a template for where the writing is going to be on the back of the bat. </div>
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I traced round the sides of the letters this was so i could see where they were when i unrolled the paper. This was to allow me to get the spacing correct on the bat. </div>
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Using the template i wrote out the whole quote once just to get used to writing it and to try and get the spacing correct. </div>
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I then did it with the pens i will finally do the bat with. this matters as the pens are thicker than the pencil i used first. </div>
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I wrote the words out a few times in the pen just so i knew i could do it when it came to putting it on the bat. </div>
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I wrapped the tracing paper back onto the bat (using the outlines of the letters to align the paper correctly.) this was to make sure the spacing of my writing was correct and that it all lined up. </div>
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Once i felt confident that i could write the quote on the bat correctly I went about slowly writing the quote onto the bat. </div>
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I started with the black and blue lettering, switching between them as i went along. </div>
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The red lettering in the background of the quote was written last to make sure it was in the correct place. </div>
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I took the paper off and marked out how the diamonds will look. thickening up the lines so they matched the screen used prop. </div>
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Then using the colouring the back of the paper technique again I placed the design onto the handle of the bat. </div>
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I then used some acrylic paint to fill in the lines. I started with white as other colours will go over it better if i make a mistake :) </div>
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The blue i originally used was a tad too dark once I painted the other colours so I used a lighter blue and I think it works a lot better. </div>
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I took the bat out to the shed and gave it a couple of coats of clear gloss lacquer. This is to protect the paint job on the handle, and also it will make sure the pen wont run or smudge, even though it was done in permanent marker it still might get smudged but with the gloss clear coat over it it will stay fresh. </div>
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To put the grip on the bat i purchased some white rubber tennis racquet grip. The one I got was white and i thought (incorrectly) that it was blank. I had to wrap it funny in the middle to cover the dunlop logo as i didnt want it to be visible if the grip got dirty etc. </div>
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<br />I started wrapping at the base of the grip and then worked my way to close to the black lines on the bottom of the diamonds. The grip came with some black logo tape to secure the grip but i didnt like it so i used some white electrical PVC tape. it will age differently to other grip but i think it looks good. To match the top of the grip i wrapped some tape round the bottom as well. </div>
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Finished bat is all shiny and ready to get some folk for Mr J.</div>
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Thank you for taking a look at my post about how i made Harley Quinn's bat from Suicide Squad. </div>
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If you like Harley Quinn I have another post about how I made her Mallet. see <a href="http://www.aidanlamb.co.uk/2015/11/harley-quinns-hammer.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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This prop build is a bit wordy , sorry, but there are still a few pictures for you to enjoy. </div>
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Another of the holy trilogies* that I am a fan of is the Indiana Jones films. </div>
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That being said i felt it was time to approach one of my favourite props from the films. (and one i can do while recovering from surgery) was the Grail Diary that Henry Jones sends to Indiana in the Last Crusade. </div>
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As always i started with a good old Google. </div>
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To say that there are a few websites with information on what is inside the grail diary is an understatement, so if you are wanting to make the diary yourself do a search, you will find more information than you know what to do with. </div>
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I will share some of the links that i used and that were very helpful. </div>
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LINKS i used are listed below.</div>
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(there were more but they have been lost to the wind) </div>
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<a href="http://zenseeker.net/GrailDiary/" target="_blank">Zenseeker</a> was one of the most helpful, i got the page order and a lot of the page art work from here. </div>
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<a href="http://indygear.com/cow/" target="_blank">Club obi wan</a> is a great forum (you have to sign up to see posts) where people discuss everything you might need to know. </div>
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<a href="http://www.indianajones.dk/Webside/Billeder/Indy-side/Grail%20Diary.htm" target="_blank">indianajones.dk</a> has a great selection of info. and also a nice little <a href="http://www.indianajones.dk/Webside/Billeder/Indy-side/Grail%20Diary%20toturial.htm" target="_blank">tutorial</a> with loads of links and helpful tips. </div>
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All these places will HELP you make a diary but there isn't a place that will just give you the info for a whole diary. This page is definitely not going to give you anything of the sort. people spend years collating the info for their diary and are not about to give it out for free. I worked hard and did a lot of research and drawing and computer work to get my pages and I'm not going to give them away so don't ask. </div>
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With all that out of the way lets get down to it! </div>
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I made a hero diary. One that is as close to the one used in the filming, not one that would be a story diary. The story diary has a made up chronology to it and includes pages that are not used or seen in the film. The hero diary has a set of pages that are repeated throughout the diary, some with different inserts to act as markers for the actors etc. Mine is a HERO. </div>
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The first step I took was to look through all the websites above and get a page order list which included a list of the inserts. </div>
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In the below lists there are some pages with "set##" these are official pages from the hero diary and can be found on the zenseekers website. </div>
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As you can see (if you read it all straight off) there are 4 sets of unique Signatures (groups of pages) that have different pages that repeat through the whole diary. </div>
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Above is how i did the first four signatures of my diary. certain pages are repeated in the first four then the four signatures are repeated through the book. </div>
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I went through age by page and looked up what the page listing referred to on the links above and if i could find good quality art work i would see if i could use it. if it didn't have a good quality on i would use a low quality one and draw it and scan it myself. a lot of the pages were low quality and i had to redraw or compose them myself. </div>
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The technique i used to recreate the images in the diary was as such : </div>
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above are a couple of examples. I did tend to do more than i really needed as i found the ones I drew were better than even the high quality ones I found, Also... you know... I drew them which makes it a little more personal .</div>
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I used indesign to layout my signatures one by one. The little diagram at the top of the image was a helpful tool to work out which page goes on the back of the next and which is printed on the same page as which. </div>
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Once I had printed all the page sets, four pages of a signature on one sheet of A4 paper, i grouped them and folded them along the centre.</div>
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I made a block for the pages to sit in and all be in the same place. I used a bit of paper the same length as the pages and marked where I wanted the holes for the stitching to be. laying this inside the pages when they were in the block i pushed a large needle through all the pages from each signature. </div>
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I printed the inserts on different types and colours of paper: thick paper, thin paper, thin card and coloured cards for the tickets. There is a brown envelope which i printed the details for it onto brown packing paper. </div>
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I went through the diary and placed the inserts in the diary according to the page list found on the websites listed at the top of the post. </div>
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Attaching the cover to the bound book was easy. I printed a sheet of marbled paper out to act as "flysheets" these are used to start and finish the book. In the image above i glued the left side of the sheet to the inside of the book cover and the right hand side is glued to the last page of the book. The front is done in the same way, the spine is not glued in and is left floating so it can move when opening the book. </div>
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Once the Grail Diary is finished the only problem i can think of is that i don't know which page spread to display the Diary on. </div>
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Thank you for reading (or looking at the pictures.) how i made my Grail Diary. If you have any questions about how i made my Diary please ask questions and i will try and answer them. </div>
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When i was looking through the Prop store photos i saw a code on one of the parts, so i searched on my favorite internet search engine and discovered its a little diode readout think so i ordered some and that also helped with the scaling of the whole multipass.</div>
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Keeping all the parts face up i gave them a coat of undercoat paint. </div>
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Using photoshop and the screen grabs from the propstore i made the front and back for the cards. the fronts will all be different due to the difference in the people on the cards. </div>
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I made one for leeloo from the movie and one for me and one for my wife. </div>
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i printed them on thick paper and cut them to fit the multipass frame, both front and back. </div>
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I gave all the parts a coat of dark metallic paint. </div>
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The green/yellow rod had to have a notch taken off the end to trim it down to the thickness of the middle layer of plastic (2mm) so the rear face frame can fit correctly. </div>
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The small red rod had one side of it sanded to a flat surface so it would be easier to glue it to the main prop. </div>
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Once i had filed the domes down i printed some yellow off and cut it into circles and glued them to the rear of the filed domes. </div>
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All three of the mulitpasses without the diode or the art work. </div>
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I bent all the wires on the diodes towards the yellow button, this allows for the back to fit and the battery to be connected. </div>
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There was very limited space in the back for the battery and a switch so i just bent the wires that i soldiered onto the top LED of the diode (that was more than enough to light it up) the bottome wire was bent so it would always be in contact with the battery, the second wire was bend and taped so it doesnt actually make contact with the coin battery.<br />
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The final touch will be adding a Ball Bearing Chain through the chain Hole, then you will have an awesome looking prop from the movie :)<br />
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This halloween my wife wanted to dress as Harley Quinn. She worked out the costume side and i said that i would make the hammer for her. </div>
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This post will go into how i made the hammer out of what we had around the house. </div>
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The hammer we wanted to make was the wooden style. There are many types found all over the internet and this was they style my wife wanted so i set about making it for her. </div>
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Starting the hammer with the head of the hammer. </div>
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I had a section of large cardboard tube. this tube is 159mm diameter. we had a tube that was over 300mm across but we decided we didn't want it to be too huge. </div>
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Using Some 10mm EVA foam i cut two circles the size of the ends of the tubes. These will be the ends of the hammer. </div>
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Cutting the hole for the handle. </div>
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I measured 200mm to find the middle of the large tube. at this point i marked out a circle slightly smaller than the diameter of the Broom handle that i am using as a handle, it is smaller so it is a tight fit. </div>
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I divided the circumference of the tube in two and then measured that around the center line and then i drew another circle for the handle. </div>
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To cut the holes for the handle i drew 4 lines through the circle and cut these spokes and then carefully cut around the circle and pushed the slices into the tube. <br />
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Attaching the handle to the head. </div>
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Using a smaller diameter tube, i cut the smaller tube to the diameter of the larger tube. This tube will go into the large one where the handle goes through the large tube. </div>
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This Setup stopped the tube moving up or down the handle and also stops it from tipping forward or backwards. It doesn't stop the head spinning on the handle, to stop this i poured glue into the gap at the bottom of the small tube and let it set. when it had set it secured all the hammer insides in place and stopped all movement of the hammer head. </div>
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To make the band around the hammer look like a metal band that has been hammered and nailed on to the wooden hammer i cut some card discs out of 1.2 mm card stock and glued two together and glued them around the band at intervals of somewhere between 35mm and 40mm, this was to make it look like they had been nailed into the hammer slightly randomly by Harley Quinn. </div>
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To make the Harley Quinn logo i did a similar thing to the discs, i cut out 8 diamonds and glued two together and then glued them onto one of the hammer ends. </div>
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Painting the hammer head. </div>
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Before painting the hammer head i gave the whole thing a few coats of a PVA and water mix to seal all the foam sections and give the card a nice sealed surface to paint on it. </div>
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When the glue had dried i painted the whole thing with a couple of coats of a white primer. </div>
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To make the hammer look more like wood i started the paint technique at the base coat level.( the earlier you start the paint technique the better) </div>
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I Painted the sides of the sides of the hammer front to back along the length of the hammer head and the two ends were painted in a circular pattern to mimic the grain of a log. </div>
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I painted the whole thing white to give it a good blank canvas to start with. </div>
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At this point i remembered that i hadn't decorated the other end of the hammer. </div>
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So i marked out the words 'your face here' on the blank end of the hammer and carved it out with a sharp scalpel. </div>
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I then had to paint layers of PVA and then a layer of paint over the carved words, as i had exposed the foam again. </div>
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I painted the hammer head in a mid brown. again in the direction of the grain. I painted it quite thick to leave the brush stroke indentations in the paint. </div>
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I lightened half the paint and darkened the other half of the mid brown. </div>
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I painted the ends of the hammer head with the light brown ( i didn't paint it too well i left some of the mid brown showing through to give depth to the paint work) </div>
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I painted the dark brown on the sides of the hammer (again leaving a little of the dark showing through) </div>
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Again all of this in the directions of the grains.</div>
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After all the brown paints had dried i painted the bands a dark grey. </div>
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Details on the hammer. </div>
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I thinned down some black acrylic paint and painted it into the valleys of the words i carved out of one end. </div>
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I made wash out of the dark brown paint, i made it darker and watered it down to be just a little thicker than water.<br />
This was then painted onto the hammer and then rubbed/wiped off to leave just the dark wash in the grain marks from the paint.<br />
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I love star wars and a while back i got a lot of film cells on ebay of the three original star wars films.<br />
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Using my ipad as a back light i looked through the cells that i had to choose the ones i wanted. </div>
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I measured all the film cells and found that i had six of one side and two slightly longer. </div>
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After measuring them i drew them out and got a frame. The frame i got (i got two of them) was a deep shadow box style photo frame and was 12inch square. </div>
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I cut out the holes for four of the film cells. there will be four cells in each frame. </div>
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I divided the cells in to two groups, one for the rebels and the light side and the other group for the dark side and the imperial fleet. </div>
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To mark out where to put the lights to illuminate the cells, i out the card into the frame and left the glass out so i could draw directly through the holes in the card onto the back board of the frame. </div>
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Custom Star Wars Carded figures.<br />
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Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru<br />
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As some of you reading this might know, I'm a little bit fond of the film franchise Star Wars.<br />
I love the toys that were produced for the original films and have
collected them i recent years (after my childhood collection went as
dust to the wind in many house moves) i have been collecting the
original figures, I'm not too bothered about the condition as long as
they aren't broken in some way. <br />
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a display case for the little fellas, I had the
pleasure to meet David Prowse and Jeremy Bulloch last year, knowing i
was going to meet them i wanted to get something unique for them to sign
for my collection so i looked into Re-carding my vintage Darth Vader
and Boba Fett figures. and doing so
with the re-card kit i thought it would be fun to make some custom
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Re-carded Original kenner figures signed by Jeremy Bulloch and David Prowse. <br />
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Custom made Lars figures. <br />
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THe fisrs step i took was to do some googling of card backs to make the custom ones as authentic looking as possible.<br />
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I found the highest quality images on the googles. <br />
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I also searched for screen grabs of the scene when luck comes back to the Lars homestead to see the burning skeletons. </div>
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In Photoshop i removed the original character from the card backs and replaced it with one of the two skeletons, and on the back of the card i replaced the bottom half with a screen grab and a little bio of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru from Wookipedia.<br />
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i printed the images out onto some high quality medium gloss paper. I gave each of the images a large bleed and very faint markings so if i misaligned them when sticking them to the card it wouldn't be so noticeable. <br />
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After printing them i glued them to some thin Card, i started with the back side of the cards and then cut it out and aligned the front half and stuck it down, then i trimmed all the excess paper away from the card.<br />
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To make the figures i purchased two "fantasy skeletons" from a local toy shop. These figures are great as they are almost exactly the same size as the vintage kenner figures. </div>
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The axe/spear they hold is easily removed just by pulling it out of his hands, im pretty sure they are designed to hold a large variety of weapons. <br />
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using a lighter and a knife i heated, bent , cut and glued the skeletons into shape to make them look less like the fighting stance they came in. <br />
The singing and melting of the plastic from the lighter doesn't matter as I'm going to paint them anyway. <br />
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Once the glue had dried and the plastic had cooled i used acrylic paint to darken the skeletons down to make them look like they had been burned by some evil stormtroopers. once the layers of brown and dark red paint had dried i gave it a little coat of bright red to make them look a little bloody. <br />
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The figures are almost exactly the same size as the original kenner toys. <br />
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I applied a thin strip of double sided tape to the edges so i could stick it down around the figures. <br />
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I placed the skeleton on to the coloured section where the figures sit and placed the blister over the top of the figure. this section was a little tricky as i only had one shot at getting it in place as the tape sticks it almost instantly. <br />
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For christmas my brother got me a doopydoos Han Solo blaster, the Empire Strikes Back version.</div>
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This is how i built it up and painted to my liking :) </div>
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first off i got the kit out and laid it out and worked out how every thing went together, i also did a google search and got some screen used shots and some replica shot as references for the painting.</div>
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The main parts go together pretty well. some tiny little detail parts were a little harder to know where to put them (this is where the reference pictures come in handy)</div>
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The barrel of the gun slides ontop of the body of the gun (this will be glued later)</div>
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I also drilled a matching hole in the bracket and counter sunk the hole so the screw head would sit flush to the bracket surface, the screw head is hidden under one of the smaller parts of the kit.</div>
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the scope mount can be held with just the screw but i am going to fill the hole with glue and screw it together once everything is painted. I'm painting the the scope and bracket and the rest of the gun in two parts as its difficult for the paint to get into the gap behind the scope and mount. </div>
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I used a epoxy resin glue to glue the barrel to the gun body and the scope to the mount. The elastic bands are to hold the parts in place while the glue set.<br />
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Once the glue had dried i assembled the parts to see what the gun would look like and to make sure it was all in the right place.<br />
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I gave the whole kit a coat of white primer and then a black coat. (i forgot to take photos of these stages)<br />
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once the black had fully dried (i left it for two or three days as the cold weather here slows the drying time and it stays tacky for a long while.) i masked off the rest of the gun and left just the flash hider and sprayed it with a nice metallic silver paint.<br />
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I glued the thumb screw part over the screw head after gluing it into the hole for extra security. <br />
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The white marks in the black paint on the main body are from where i hung the gun to paint, i retouched these.<br />
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I painted the handles with a light brown, the brightness of the brown will be dulled down in the next stages.<br />
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I gave the handles a wash with black to dull down the brown. this gave the effect of a grain in the wood and aged it making it look dirty through use.<br />
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The scope and scope bolts were dry brushed with a gold. The bolts and screws on the scope were to be painted to look like brass fixings. the scope was dry brushed to look like a brass scope that has been painted black and the paint has weathered off over years of use.<br />
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The body of the gun was weathered down with a dry brushing coat of silver paint to give it a worn effect.<br />
The flash hider was weathered with black to make it look like it had been fired and been smoke damaged and dirtied up.<br />
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I gave some of the silver a wash with black to knock it back down if it was too bright to make it look dirty.<br />
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I was tempted to paint it up and have it look factory fresh, but there were some little defects in the resin cast and in my painting so i went with a weathered used look, i feel that it looks much better used.<br />
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I will make a stand and it will be displayed with my E-11 Hasbro conversion. <br />
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A while back i got hold of a nice little C3PO helmet kit, its not perfect but its still pretty damn good, and i love it.</div>
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The kit came with all the parts you need to make the head of your very own protocol droid.</div>
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You get the front and back shells of the head (vac formed) </div>
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The first step i took was to cut the flat section out of the rear shell to the same size as the raised detail section of the rear 'plug' i then glued the detailed plug in to the hole and made sure it was the correct rotation. </div>
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I then glued the halo into the rear shell at the right depth, there was some extra plastic around the halo as the vac form was pulled with extra which was perfect to get it in the right place and flush against the halo. </div>
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I started by trimming them out to the line in the shell and test fitting the eyes the holes were slightly too small so i then began slowly sanding the edge of the hole until the eyes fit inside the shell. </div>
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The front plastic shell has to fit inside the halo so the halo will have to be sanded and shaped to fit the shape of the front of the head. </div>
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At this point i made the dent on his forehead. i did this by heating a small section of the front shell with a heat gun and then i pressed it in when it was pliable. </div>
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I painted the whole lot (everything that's going to be gold) with a base coat of black and then a layer of chrome silver from plasticoat. i sprayed the sliver on top of the black in phases i did a light coat of silver when the black was still wet, then once all that had dried i gave it a full coat of silver. </div>
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I let the all the paint dry full for a good few hours. (the chrome paint takes a long time to dry and it may feel/look dry but if you hold it for to long you will leave fingerprints in it.) </div>
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Using silicone i then dabbed it on places that i thought would be where the gold paint would have flaked off, high places, parts of him that would have been hit or scratched.</div>
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Then i gave everything a coat of gold plasicoat chromed gold. (which is a lot higher gloss than i thought. much much better. ) </div>
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The bumpy sections on the eye brows and nose etc. are the sections that have the silicone under the gold. The silicone will be rubbed off when dry and reveal the silver underneath.</div>
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you can connect it to your computer to load up what ever sound you want. </div>
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This video was filmed before i did the final weathering of the head. </div>
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I weathered the whole head, the idea was the make it look like he has been through the wars, scarred up and like hes been blasted in the desert </div>
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i did the weathering with different techniques, i started with a very fine sand paper to dull down sections of the gold, mainly round the silver flaked sections and high points. </div>
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once i was happy with the paint dulling i started with colour washes, doing lots of light dry-brushes of different coloured yellows light browns and dark browns for dust rust and dirt. </div>
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With the new trailer for iron man 3 coming out i thought i would do a little pre film model of the arc reactor shown at the end of the trailer. </div>
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This is the end screen of all the trailers and this is what made me want to give it a go at making it. </div>
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Im sure once the film comes out and there are more prop photos and detailed making of books and extras i will work out that i've made some mistakes about the arc but going from the front on shot i have this is the best I could do. </div>
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The main ring magnets. 1mm and 3mm plastic. </div>
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I gave all the parts that were to be painted a coat of plastic primer and then each set a different colour to match the source photos. </div>
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The oval ring and hex mesh are painted a dark gun metal and the rear casing and ring magnets are painted silver. </div>
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the front bezel and parts that sit on top of the oval ring are painted black and the rear ring assembly are painted gold.</div>
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I glued the fronts of the ring magnets to the clear ring.</div>
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when the glue had set i turned it over and glued the backs on and then i had the main Arc ring. </div>
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I glued the hex mesh (which is made from 0.7mm card) on to the rear of the oval rings. </div>
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I kept the offcuts from the ring parts to assist in the placement of the parts on top of the oval rings. </div>
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This was to give the design a more 3D feel as it looks like in the source images i have. </div>
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I put all the parts together to see what it will look like. </div>
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I then cut a disk of EL panel inside the rear case of the Arc and glued it all together.</div>
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As you may have seen from other prop posts on here, i like making Arc reactors from the Iron man Films.</div>
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I have Previously made the first Arc <a href="http://backwardsprops.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tony-starks-iron-man-arc-reactor.html" target="_blank">here</a> and I've also made whiplashes second Arc <a href="http://backwardsprops.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/whiplashs-arc-reactor-mk-ii.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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So this time I thought i would try and make the Iron man Arc reactor mk VI</div>
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So as always i started with a little google and found this rather nice screen grab of the arc. </div>
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I cut a disc of EL panel and placed it in the rear of the casing of the Arc. </div>
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The dome had the space for something about 8cm long, So i thought about what props i could make. </div>
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I came to he conlution that the brain chip from terminator 2 would look good under the glass dome. </div>
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from these i worked out the size and from other photos of licenced props (bad plastic recasts) i found i worked out the correct amount of cubes on the CPU. </div>
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so i drew up some plans on Illustrator and marked out where the damage on the broken chip would go. </div>
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With all the parts cut out i assembled the chips. </div>
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I put the broken one in the glass dome as i wanted it to look like the one they stole from cyberdyne systems in the second film. </div>
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This is how i made my floating death star</div>
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I thought it would be fun to change what hangs in the space of the globe so had a think and came up with the thought of making a Death Star replica. </div>
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so i started by getting hold of a floating globe, i got mine on the electronic bay.com.</div>
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It was a nice little globe. the base was domed and had some little LEDs in to give it the space/future/star wars feel. </div>
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The globe had a little Equator sticker holding the two halves of the globe. <br />
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The detail of the globe (the countries and seas etc.) were on a thin plastic layer that seems to have been heat shrunk around the plastic domes. it wasn't glued down, it was only held by the top and bottom metal caps.<br />
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Once i had the covering off i printed some plans of the Death Star from the Internet at the right scale of the globe i had.<br />
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I cut out the "eye" of the Death Star and placed it on the dome in the correct place.<br />
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I carefully cut the "eye" out of the dome and flipped it round and placed it back into the hole it came from. (the same way the actual Death Star in the movies was done.) <br />
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I gave the whole globe a little sand and then a coat of light grey primer.</div>
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I made a very simple press switch cell battery LED circuit. then i gave it another test float.</div>
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I drilled an array of little holes all over both domes from the inside. the reason for this will become apparent soon.</div>
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I thought i would look for the biggest ship in the star wars films
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In my research i found the size of the first death star to be loads of
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So with a size of 160,000,000 mm for the death star and the length 19,000,000 mm for the star destroyer.<br />
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the globe i got was around 105 mm long. So with some quick maths i
worked out that it is at a scale of (roughly) 1 : 1,500,000 (it comes
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so the star destroyer of 19,000,000 at the scale of 1:1,500,000 makes
the scaled version come out at 12.666667 mm so i rounded it up to 13mm
and made a little , well tiny, card model of the super star destroyer. i
attached the star destroyer to the death star with a small length of
fibre optic strand, i just glued it to the destroyer and drilled a small
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I also used some lengths of Fibre optic strands to make the laser
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Since i had a lot of fun making my Iron man Arc reactor i thought i would make another one.</div>
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Which one? this was the question i asked myself, Whiplash! I what i answered!</div>
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So as per usual i did some research and found a few screen used props at yourprops.com</div>
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The second didn't have the 'heatsink' blades in so it was good to see the LED array in the centre.</div>
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I started off by making some plans in Illustrator and cutting them out on the laser cutter. </div>
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i designed the parts cut out to be made in to a few elements that will go together and form the Arc. </div>
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The first part i made was the LED bank. </div>
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i made the heatsink by cutting 25 blades that could be strung up in a circle. to stick them together i made a JIG with slots for each blade and ran a 1mm styrene rod through the holes. </div>
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Just a test assembly of all the parts. </div>
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The Whiplash Arc reactor next to the Iron man Arc i made. </div>
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*bloody White EL wire is actually blue :( </div>
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but when the movies did come out i loved the Arc reactor prop they used. </div>
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especially the mark one version that pepper pots makes into a gift for Tony.</div>
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so i thought i would give making one for myself a go. </div>
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This prop took me a long time to make (not because it was hard just that i got side tracked and forgot about it until i moved and found it in a box.)</div>
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i cut the main ring out of green glass acrylic as the mark one had a slight green tint to the glass.<br />
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The central rings were cut out of thin 2mm acrylic, they were clear because thats all i could get hold of. </div>
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I got some EL sheet and cut it to match the size of the arc reactor. i chose the white/light blue to give it that electric glow look.</div>
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i made a stand and cradle to hold the whole arc reactor , this was made out of acrylic and and a perspex tube. the box at the bottom of the stand holds the electronics that power the EL sheet and the battery. </div>
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I love the game bioshock and have always been terrified of the little sister character and her weapon. </div>
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when i found a vintage petrol pump in one of my strolls around the internet and electronic bay i thought it would be fun to try and make a ADAM syringe. </div>
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so i set about trying to get some screen grabs of the syringe.... Google provided me with a good selection.</div>
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so to start i got the petrol pump in the post. this is how it came. nice and dirty. </div>
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N.B there will be doubles of some of the things in the photos as i got two pumps and i was making these in parallel.</div>
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i cleaned it up. </div>
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First i took the top cap off the pump and drilled a hole so i could fit a pipe coupler through it, this will be how the jar is held to the top of the pump and how the wires get to the LEDs in the jar. </div>
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I then screwed the top cap back onto the pump and added the LED housing made from clear acrylic tube. this is to keep the LEDs away from the red goo that will be in the jar. </div>
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i drilled a hole in the jam jar lid and used the coupler to clamp a washer either side of the lid and i sealed the whole thing with silicone, to make it water tight. </div>
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i took some 1inch pvc pipe and cut it to the same length as the original nozzle of the pump.</div>
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I sharpened a 10mm dowel into a point to make it look like a needle.</div>
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In the reference photos i found i could see that the top jar was meant to look like a baby bottle, the little sisters drink out of it after they have stolen the ADAM. so i made a mount for the baby bottle nipple. this was done by making a plastic ring and sanded down the top edge to make it rounded and then i glued the rin to the top of the jar. </div>
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all the excess wires and the battery are housed in a pear pvc pipe coupler. </div>
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Rear end cap was needed to hold the batter in, so i made a hexagon and sanded it down to look like a pipe end bolt of some kind. </div>
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leaving the needle assembly silver. not gold.</div>
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Now to fill the jar with the red goo (ADAM) (bubble bath)</div>
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This is a short video of the light turning on and off. (sorry for the bad sound)</div>
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N.B i have two of these. if you would like one please contact me and we can discuss prices :) </div>
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A film making friend of mine came to me and commissioned me to make him a Lollipop Chainsaw, at that point in time i had never heard of the game or seen anything about it.<br />
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So i set about goggling.<br />
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After a very strange 30 minuets of wondering around the strange part of the Internet i worked out i could do it and how to do it (roughly)<br />
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I found this pic on the google and it was a great start as it showed me exactly what i needed to make. </div>
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I also found a lot of pictures of the chainsaw being held by real people (cosplayers) but all of these were either real chainsaws that had been painted to look a little like the Lollipop chainsaw or they were cardboard boxes or the like.<br />
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I found a great rear handle and top handle on the electronic bay.com which was a great base and structure of my chainsaw. I also got some blue insulation foam and a bike chain, this was my starting point. </div>
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Using the images i found i drew up some plans and cut them out to trace them onto the blue foam.</div>
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Then i carved out the outside sections of the body. </div>
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Once the body had been complete i chamffered the edges of the body to match the images i found. </div>
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Then to the process of painting and sanding and filling and sanding and painting and sanding and filling and sanding until the whole body is nice and smooth. </div>
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once i had the body completely smooth i could move onto the blade and the rest of the prop. </div>
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I used the plans i drew to get the blade cut out on a laser cutter. <br />
The blade was three layers of 3mm acrylic. The central layer had pegs on to hole the bike chain in place while gluing, this was the make it more secure. <br />
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I drilled holes along each side of the blade to add dome nuts. This was partly for decoration and partly to give the blade a little more strength.</div>
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A coat of grey primer on all parts helps you see where (if any) the imperfections are. </div>
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I created two side panels that are for detailing. one is stuck to the body and the other isn't as the removable side will cover the holes where i will bolt the blade into the body.</div>
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I sprayed the dome nuts a bright pink and lacquered them with a matte spray. </div>
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Once the black had dried i masked off the top heart and sprayed it pink. Then i bolted the Pink dome nuts onto the blade. </div>
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Once the pink heart had dried i set about getting the chain stuck to the chainsaw bar.<br />
I did this by doing half and half i spread epoxy along one side and placed the chain on and used tape to keep it in place.<br />
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Once all the glue has set i had a finished blade. </div>
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I painted the body in three stages, first was to paint it black. </div>
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While waiting for paint on things to dry i wrapped the top handle with a couple of layers of red electrical tape, i did it this way as the tape would be harder wearing than paint and i had doubts that the paint would take to the plastic handle any way. </div>
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I made some plastic detail parts. Two small twist knobs and one large one, a large turn switch, an air vent and a small slide switch. I painted them all a metallic silver grey. </div>
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On one side of the blade at the body there is a small blade guard. The above picture shows the guard with a long rear section, i made it like this so i could cut it off is i needed to. turns out i needed to cut all the rear section off to fit it to the chainsaw.</div>
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I stuck all the detail parts onto the body and side panel of the saw.</div>
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I bolted the blade in by mounting two L brackets onto the handle which were inserted into the body. the blade was then placed inside the hole at the front of the body and i drilled through the L bracket and into the blade which in turn had bolts threaded through and tightened to give the blade full support.<br />
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The plans for this prop are for sale if you wish to purchase them please leave a message or contact me and i will reply with details.<br />
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The voice over guy in the game 'Cave Johnson' spouts off about life giving you lemons then goes on to say how he wants his engineers to make combustible lemons. </div>
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So for my Halloween costume i decided i wanted some combustible lemons.</div>
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I found some very cheap grenades in a toy shop for 99p each, they have a pull pin which when released and the spoon depressed there is a ticking sound then an explosion sound effect. </div>
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I got two fake lemons from the interwebs. </div>
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I unscrewed the two halves and cut the shell off above the patterned body of the grenade, keeping the speaker and wires intact.</div>
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I did this on both sides of the grenade shell and screwed the remaining parts back together. </div>
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I cut the top off the fake lemon and found that it had concrete of some kind in the middle so i had to carve that out so that the batteries and wiring could fit inside. </div>
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Once dry i drew up some warning signs and hazardous signs and stuck them all over the spoon and lemon to make it look more realistic. </div>
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these are the imperial equivalent of handcuffs. </div>
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i came up with a design where there were four layers of plastic with two extending on the outer two and two extending on the inner two layers to make the hinge. </div>
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I stuck 3 A4 sheets together in e T shape as i didn't have any larger paper. <br />
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I drew out a net that would fold up and hold the cuffs. <br />
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once i had the net correct taped it down onto some leather effect vinyl.<br />
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I was waiting for supplies for another project (coming up later) so after seeing the film Prometheus i thought the little projection data cube, that was used to project the old dude near the start of the film, would be a fun little project to do while i wait. </div>
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So as always i started with looking at research images, i found some screen caps from the movie trailer.<br />
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using the images of the finger pressing the button i worked out the buttons would be around 20mm square.</div>
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i did this by drawing squares and putting my finger on them. </div>
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So knowing the size of the buttons i could work out that the cube would be 60mm with a 1mm gap between and either side of the buttons so the main cube would be 64mm cubed. </div>
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I drew out the cube in illustrator and cut them out on a laser cutter. </div>
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i also made a small emitter lens housing for the front of the cube. This was dine but cutting out one of the square and placing two triangles either side and a small rectangle on the top. </div>
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I also drew out the three detail buttons on the top of the cube. the two side ones were cut from 1mm styrene and the centre button was etched into 2mm acrylic. </div>
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the rest of the cubes small squares were cut from 1mm styrene. </div>
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i did a test of how the squares would look on the cube.</div>
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The clear cube was sprayed with a glass etch frost spray to make the light diffuse around the box. </div>
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I sprayed inside and outside, two coats on each. </div>
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After the test were done i masked off the whole cube leaving the corners and edges and also the sides of the emitter lens uncovered so that when it is sprayed they will get painted but the main body of the cube will still light up later. </div>
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The plans for this Prop are for sale. if you want them leave a comment or a message and i will reply with further details about them. </div>
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thanks. </div>
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