- October 28th, 2015, 6:13 pm#4846990
This is how I made my PKE meter using a clothes brush, scraps of Sintra and foamboard. The only real cost was the £1 for the brush and my time.
There were no plans I could find that gave sizes so it's all built by eyeballing the actual PKE.
I got the pivot points and basic shape of the wings from Sarge's PKE plans.
I started with a clothes brush from Poundland, the one I chose has a lever to flip the brush round. I removed the brush part.
Trimmed the excess to leave the handle. Using far to much hot glue I attached it to the bottom of my shell.
I screwed the wings into the top of the shell (the screw holes will be hidden by the screen etc), using paperclips I then pierced them through the smaller part of the wings.
I drilled a hole in the side of the handle and fed an elastic band through to make the wings close when the lever is released. I also drilled holes for the paper clips to be held in place. After a few tweaks to allow the wings to move in sync I used hot glue to hold them in place.
I then attached the top part of the shell and using filler smoothed over the gaps and attempted to make it uniform. A few more scraps of Sintra later and it's ready for painting and applying the smaller details.
The screen is a clear window from the clothes brush packet. I found a good close up of the Mattel PKE to get the screen display.
Although not 100% movie accurate I'm very happy with it.
There were no plans I could find that gave sizes so it's all built by eyeballing the actual PKE.
I got the pivot points and basic shape of the wings from Sarge's PKE plans.
I started with a clothes brush from Poundland, the one I chose has a lever to flip the brush round. I removed the brush part.
Trimmed the excess to leave the handle. Using far to much hot glue I attached it to the bottom of my shell.
I screwed the wings into the top of the shell (the screw holes will be hidden by the screen etc), using paperclips I then pierced them through the smaller part of the wings.
I drilled a hole in the side of the handle and fed an elastic band through to make the wings close when the lever is released. I also drilled holes for the paper clips to be held in place. After a few tweaks to allow the wings to move in sync I used hot glue to hold them in place.
I then attached the top part of the shell and using filler smoothed over the gaps and attempted to make it uniform. A few more scraps of Sintra later and it's ready for painting and applying the smaller details.
The screen is a clear window from the clothes brush packet. I found a good close up of the Mattel PKE to get the screen display.
Although not 100% movie accurate I'm very happy with it.
"Are you sure you're using that thing correctly ?"
My scratch built pack and then upgrade build
My scratch built PKE meter
My scratch built pack and then upgrade build
My scratch built PKE meter
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