Lots of found junk in my garage… a trip to Axeman (local surplus supply store), Radio Shack, and Home Depot.
Total build cost probably about $50- Until I added in a sound board (so about $90) -but again, I had a bunch of ■■■■ in my garage laying around for prop building.
first mock up:
random wires, the blue ones are wrapped with blue electrical tape.
I didn’t like the thick blue electrical box on the left side, so got another skinny one and stood that on end. Made a cover for it and disassembled a $5.00 walmart stobe light for the LEDs inside it.
I used one 5 hr energy bottle and cut that at an angle, added a washer and some JBweld to attach ulimately to anotehr electrical box. Used another 5 hr energy bottle (as it was thicker) between the two thin elect boxes on top/middle… so I could fit a thicker Split Loom tubing in there then.
gray lid is from a Ceiling paint container.
Didn’t like the Red tube, so added a thicker bottle I had.
Green tubes are a metal boom handle that I used a pipe cutter on.
Next mock up;
cut up some foam, you can see the larger plastic bottle
Misc:
Cut 5 hr energy bottle at angle, add washer with JB Weld
Waiting for paint to dry:
2 electrical thin boxes, and a cut 5 hr energy bottle
Attaching:
Cut Sheet Styrene/board I had in the garage for the mother board.
attached broom handle tubes to thin Electrical box. Cut out a rectangle (ultimately added a blue cut reflector over the top of the hole and rewired a 5.00 wallmart LED strobe light to a battery box. Put the LEDs inside, drilled a hole to control the strobe and added the battery box under the Plastic bottle). Foam now painted black and added one more electrical box to the top right side
Final outcome:
added a PVC cupler to top right, screwed/rivoted/bolted everything down, Ran wires and added a Army “Suspenders” I got off ebay. basically backpack straps with hooks to attach to a pistol belt. I just added hooks at the bottom to attach it and added a peice of foam to the top for “the look”.
Last nights build:
More broom handle tubing, Some Bicycle grips cut up, monitary switches (to run sound board), 2 electrical boxes cut up and JBwelded, and some misc items laying around the garage painted up or wired on.
Just need to stop and get some wire connectors to wire up the push buttons on the wand to the wires running to it.
Little over a week here and there on the build… but I have one SUPER excited 8 yr old!!
Outside of intro… how’s that for a first post? 