#4901682
Tonights Episode will be called "Fun With Circles" Thats right Ghostheads, its cyclotron time! First i laid out a 10" cirle and then a 9" circle inside it to act as the cyclotron step. I began cutting the 9" circle first using a No15 Xacto blade.....

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Took a little bit of time and effort, but I got a decent circle out of it.

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I laminatd the new circle on top of the one that I cut outta the sync/gen so I could get the right thickness to sand in the contour.

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I cut a 2" strip from the styrene sheet and bent it around a section of 3" PVC. then I used the cut out section as a jig to hold the wall in place while I glued it all together........

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Repeated the process with a .275 strip to get a .5 high step around the cyclotron

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And with that I got a rough cyclotron assembly ready for a lot of sanding and contouring....

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And now for the money shot.....its really looking like a proton pack now!

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#4901730
Once more time to feed the trolls and listen to the crickets.....lol

I tackled the "dreaded crankgen/gearbox".......

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And Hey look! Adetail part I don;t have to make or buy. The knob is from a model railroad powerpack that quit working a long time ago.......

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And the obligatory money shot........

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#4901742
Crank gens look so weird without the tube thingy on them lol. Good progress.
#4901763
Batfly wrote:Crank gens look so weird without the tube thingy on them lol. Good progress.

Yeah I know.......since I'm doing the larger pieces on the dining room table, I was trying to get the basic shell done before Christmas and go back and do the smaller stuff in my model shop after the holidays. Then Real Life reared its ugly head, I got 32 hours OT this week, and 32 hours OT next week already scheduled, but at least I'll prolly be able to order the thrower electronics after the first of the year....lol
#4904891
Had an unplanned hospital stay this weekend, but seem to be on the mend, since I had today off thought I might kick up some dust. First of all I decided to get out the sharkskin and round out the cylontron profile........Hey Look! A cakepan!!!!


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Next, I used the Mighty Batfly's tehnique of hole saws to cut the washers for the holes in the cylotron. Drill presses and belt sanders are indeed wonderful things to have....

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Took some time to cut some PVC, got the blanks done for the basic injectors for the power cell and cut the Booster tube, HGA, and PPD

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The last major shell component is th gunmount, so as I was winding down the day, I began the gun mount and spacer......

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And now for a money shot.....you can see the booster tube and HGA where they are sposed to be.......

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#4905059
And how bout another update? The last majr component of the Shell tha needed doing was the gun mount......so I took care of that........

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Then I moved on to the bumper, I admit this was a part of the build Iwas really worried about, I made a posterboard template and cut out the rails for each side.......

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I was really worried about scoring an snapping out these pieces as they are fairly intricate, but it only took about an hour and a half to make two of them
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#4905096
Wow, Nice Work!!! :-D

I'm definitely FAN of Styrene Builds!!! :-D
#4905130
Why didn't I think about styrene before?
#4905143
Wow.....with a ew more productive days like today, I could get this thing done! First up was fabricating an N filter out of a pair of 2" couplers......

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I usd the template PDF to mark out the holes and drilled them with a step bit....Also put some window screen behind the holes.

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I also finished up the bumper and cut the holes in the cyclotron.......

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thought this was as good a time as any to make the gunbox bottom and the gun track.....

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And how about a moneyshot for the day? Won't be long before I can start bolting this thing together!

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#4905208
Yesterday was alll about Round Things.......which really meant that I was cutting sections of 1" PVC to length. The beam line, filler plug, vachose and gearboxlve and the gearbox round thing. Also made up the circles that the Clippard valve and Vachose mount to.

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Afterdoing some seam work on the cyclotron I decided I would try faking a weld on the N Filter. I think it turned out pretty good. It was also the first time that I actually used all the AVES putty I had mixed up...........

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#4905334
Wow been a while since I did an update! Stuff is getting done at an incredible rate. I have a new target date of getting her servicable by May 19, but I hape to have her cosmetically ready by theis weekend.

I began by getting the top half components all bolted together.....

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Got it connected to the bottom half, and the shell is now all one piece.......

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With a complete shell I could trace the motherboard out onto 1/4 MDF

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And getting the MOBO mounted to the frame

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Used aluminum angle brackets to mount the shell to the mobo

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Needed to get some detailing done so that I can get the shell painted first up was the booster plug

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Then fabricated and detailed the ion arm and HGA

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Im the meantime, the MOBO got painted and mounted permanently to the frame

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Cut the hole for the thrower loom to access the shell

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Then I got the HGA and Iom Arm mounted to the shell

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NOW stuff started gettin real. The shell could move on to paint! First primer, then a silver undercoat followed by satin black .....I love it!!!

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Now its time to start on some detail! First up my own clippards, basically some styrene scrap from the pack build, 1" schedule 40 PVC cut to length and the cap from a Travel Size Crest Mouthwash......Hmmmm $25 for resin copies or make my own in a couple hours for less than $3????

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Looks pretty good fixin to get mounted on a thrower if I do say so myself!

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#4905350
Wow!!! NICE!!! :-P
#4906050
Bart Salmons Ecto46 wrote: June 4th, 2018, 1:29 pm And this past weekend, I took the pack to Wonderfest 2018 in Lousville Ky I garnered a Bronze Award in the modeling contest, which is not bad for a prop that is actually worn and used regularly! The girlfriend and I brought home trophies in the cosplay contest too!
Nice work, Bart. The effort shows. :)

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