Hey all, still working on my Frozen Empire Q-Pack MK4. Was looking at parts I wanted to lasercut out of acrylic rather than printing and painting (mostly the clear lenses :P) and decided I wanted to do the yellow lines on the powercell as a separate thin layer of acrylic. I opened it up in Fusion 360 and noticed that these lines are not actually evenly spaced!
While 3 of the lines are around 14mm wide, the middle one is only 11mm. Doesn’t sound like much but now that I’m focused on it, it looks kinda weird!
I’ve been comparing to the reference library and I’m not sure - they look equally spaced to my eye? Anyone know if the Q-Pack spacings are indeed accurate to the movie appearance or no?
Here’s some shots from Adam Savage’s inspection of the props. Doesn’t look like they’re evenly spaced to me; looks like the spacing is slightly fatter on the bottom.
Then again, what it also looks like is just a single rectangular plate of yellow acrylic pushed up from inside the powercell against the black ribs with the space between the ribs completely cut out.
Acrylic is brittle as heck. i used i.5mm styrene sheet to do exactly that. they can be sprayed seperately and then glued i and looks much better than sraaying into the recess. Also to your point on the ribs yes they vary so again styrene sheet is perfect for this.
It’s also reversable by removing the tape.