GB1 Ecto Goggles

[Warrenzo]

So with the Uniform, Pack and Trap all built it’s time to start building something else And this time its the Ecto Goggles!! So we begin with a fiberglass mold of an original pair of Israeli Night Vision Goggles that i got off a guy from the UK Ghostbusters. And i have to say they are of awesome quality!!


I’ll come back to those in a moment. Next there is a front plate required to hold the lenses in place. It was cut from a piece of aluminnium and then holes added to house the lenses.



There’s also a back plate that goes on the inside of the goggles. This should also be made from aluminnium, but after a long drawn out dispute with someone over him not sending me the bits i needed, he soon sorted it and sent me a resin back plate as compensation. Here’s a pic of both the front and back plates.


Ok, back to the frames! To begin with, u gotta be able to see out the lenses so a hole was cut in the middle of the frames…like so…


I then moved onto the Lenses which came from Nick-a-Tron.


I had to make a little triangular type tab for the larger lense. I managed to wittle down a small piece of plastic which before hand looked very like it , but had to make it fit the round lense and glue it on with Plastic Weld.


So while that was drying i drilled a hole in the bottom of the resin Battery cover to hold it in place when installed.


More updates soon

[kingpin]

Off to a good start. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this thread as I have a couple of those fibreglass shells, and one a couple of those metal lense frames.

[Warrenzo]

Ok so i finally managed to get some more work done on these. I painted the outter (Metal) faceplate Olive Drab Green and the Inner plate black

Next i added all the snaps, side knobs and decals to the frames. Here u can see i’ve also painted the battery cover black and added it to the frames also.

After i painted up the lenses and added the knobs, decals and green perspex, i dropped the outter faceplate over them, ready to be installed onto the frames.

[venkman30]

Nice build. They look good.

[abaka]

Fantastic job Warren.

[Hammer]

I’m liking this! They look good.

[stantz]

Just about to start my goggle build so this will be very handy, great work!!

[jabberbox]

Looking great!

[ghostfan003]

I would have loved to see how you went about attaching all the button snaps. By looking at the photos it appears you epoxied them on?

[Warrenzo]

I did indeed, yeah. I used an epoxy called Plastic Weld by Bondloc

[ghostfan003]

@Warrenzo

I did indeed, yeah. I used an epoxy called Plastic Weld by Bondloc

Thanks!