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By Naptime
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Ok, so last year was my first dressing up as a Ghostbuster and I built a few props to go with my uniform. I started with the ecto goggles and came up with these:
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Not bad for a first go at it, but they were far from screen accurate. After building my proton pack using foam core and gaining a lot of experience and confidence from the process, I thought I'd give the goggles another try.
Inspired partly by DarkSpectre's excellent foam goggles and Coz_UK's dimensions, I came up with these:
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Thanks, Jay! Just putting the finishing touches on my foam core trap!
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Here are some pics of the process: the frames were made of foam core.
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Dry fitting the "lenses frames" - electrical tubing connectors:
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Then came the filling of the gaps & rounding of the edges. I use drywall compound to do this. It goes on easy, dries quickly & sands smoothly. The only issue I have with it is that it's prone to cracking very easily but I've come up with a method to dealing with that.
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After sanding:
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Once they've been sanded I put a couple of coats of primer on them to help stop the compound from cracking:
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Then I use apoxie sculp to reinforce the areas that are prone to cracking:
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Then more sanding.
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Then I hit them again with another coat of primer & then the first coat of green cammo.
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After a couple of coats of green, I sprayed a layer of clear coat over them but didn't like the glossiness they gave the goggles. Image
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I ended up putting another coat of the cammo green on the frames after I tried sanding the clear coat down. As you can see from the next picture, I added on the lense adjusters/extenders. The side knobs were painted pop bottle tops & the "battery cover" is the lid from a Gatorade bottle with a socket head screw through the middle & the cap holder is made from black squishy foam.
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joeghostbuster wrote:AWESOME
Many Thanks!
Grimmy GB wrote:Nap...those skills bro...
Dude. Your builds are epic! I'm just trying to keep up! Thanks, brother. It means a lot from you.
Farah wrote:excellent job on the goggles. Keep up the great work.
Will do! Time permitting, I'm going to post my trap build soon.
robandliv wrote:Wow, great job. I just started using drywall compound too. I like the idea you have for the cracking. I would like to see your pack. I am going to see about using some of your ideas to build a new set of goggles,
I like using the compound because I can smear it with my fingers to get great coverage and I can take my time with it. I've got a can of bondo that I'm still hesitant to use, though it would let me skip the apoxie sculp reinforcement step. One day, I'll try the bondo. Here's a link to my pack build:

http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... =2&t=38387
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spark wrote:I can't believe you did that with foam core! Those turned out great!
bustermedic wrote:Color me impressed... I can't believe that's foamcore... Incredible!
Thanks guys! I'm loving, LOVING working with foam core and throwing a bit of polystyrene in as well. Next up is a scratch built PKE meter.
By Rowan J. Zweig
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Those goggles look amazing!

Noob question, where can I get foam core and what is the difference between that and regular foam? I suspect it's more rigid, but I wasn't sure if there is more to it than that. Would love to see your trap when it's finished :-)
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Rowan J. Zweig wrote:Those goggles look amazing!

Noob question, where can I get foam core and what is the difference between that and regular foam? I suspect it's more rigid, but I wasn't sure if there is more to it than that. Would love to see your trap when it's finished :-)
Thanks for the compliment! I originally got all my foam core from a local art supply store, but my buddy PssdffJay told me about the Dollar Store selling sheets and sheets of them for cheap - but we live in Canada. You might want to try some local hobby shops or a Michael's craft supply, or even Staples.

To answer your question about the difference between foam core and regular foam, here's a link from wikipedia about foam core: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foamcore

Basically, you're right. It's more rigid because it's foam pressed between sheets of kraft paper.

I'll try to get pics of my foam core trap up soon!
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slimer01 wrote:What plans did you use for this?
I used Coz_UK's dimensions that were posted on the forums and was inspired to use foam core by DarkSpectre's goggles. As for the other bits of detail: I used visual references of the goggles from pictures on this site and pictures of the Matty goggles. As I said before, my goggles are far from screen accurate, but far closer than my first attempt.

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