Ok, finally had some time to snap pics of what I’ve already got done.
The ion arm: includes fake welds. The end is a block of wood that I wrapped with aluminum tape, scuffed up, and painted. The brass rod is actually brass tubing with the ends filled with epoxy putty and painted with brass paint.
I was originall planning on making my own fake resistors out of small pvc pipe with IDE cable glued to the outside… My mockups looked great, but when I glued up my finals, the epoxy didn’t set. It set me back a few days… I was a little upset. Anyways, ended up ordering the Multimedia Mayhem GB2 resistor set and they just came in the mail today, so I’m itching to put them on there.
The booster ladder frame: 1/4 luan plywood double stacked with real honest to god pencils. Ribbing accomplished with old floppy drive IDE cable. I decided to forgo the brick pattern on the “rungs”
It is in need of a good puttying/sanding still…
Power Cell: As I mentioned before, I’m building this so that all of my lights and electronics are accessible from the front. This meant altering the plans to include some more allen screws to hold on the face of the cell.
Cyclotron/Spacer/BumperEtc: I actually started my build with the spacer. It’s scrap wood that’s layered one on top of another, I then used a hole saw to punch out the excess under the cyclotron. I then cut a nice finished piece of half inch ply for the top layer with a neat hole cut out to go under the cyclotron.
My fake clippard valve made with a plywood base, a pvc pipe, a plywood end fill piece, a dowel rod, and a Louisiana Hot Sauce cap for the valve (it’s the PERFECT SIZE!)
Bumper: Made from two layers of 1/2" ply cut to “interior dimensions” and pieces of 1/4" luan cut with “outside dimensions”. I think it’s like 1/8" shy of being perfect, but I think it turned out really well. Just cut scrap wood to make the “wings” in the center. Still in need of puttying and sanding.
N-filter: two pvc fitting glued end to end and cut to the correct height. Capped off with scrap plywood and a fake weld. The plan is to put a cut paint roller inside it and finish off the holes with gridded drywall sandpaper mesh to complete the “filter” illusion. Wish my pic wasn’t so washed out…
More on the cyclotron: To make it front accessible, I recessed coupling nuts into my spacer and used small L-brackets with allen head screws to make my cake pan removable. You can also get a better look at my bumper here.
Shock Mount: Stacked washers. Larger washers are real metal, inner, smaller washers are plastic to cut down on weight.
I’ve made fake legris elbows out of grey fittings and spare brass tubing. You can see one on my cyclotron here:
The gear box, another part I’m actively working on. Once again, this is a part I’m customizing. No Raytheon crank knob for me… had a friend find some old very large “Reset” switches, so I threw one on for looks. The blue toggle switch beside it is lighted, and will be the on/off switch for all of my pack lights. The faceplate will once again be attached with recessed coupling nuts and allen head screws. Still a lot of work to do on this part.
Any questions, comments, concerns, violent outbursts?
I rushed in getting these pictures taken, so I know there are some other angles and shots I’d like to get. If you have something you’d like to see that isn’t pictured, just let me know and I’ll snap a new pic.
