Re: Duke's Pipboy 3000 pep *WIP +photos! (First Build)
Photo dump! I've got it 99% complete.
First things first, I have a new work station. No more switching between the garage and living room floor. Now a proper station to do my crafting.
Sorry for the lack of progress pics on the painting, but I got a new phone and did not feel comfortable taking pictures with it until I got a screen protector and case. Anyways, here it is primed, painted, dry brushed and clear coated. I also filled in all of the bondo divots (from not doing another coat) with a little silver paint. I liked how it turned out with the divots, made it feel like an aluminum casting.
Now to make it truly my own.. adding my own knobs, lights and switches! I took a shot of each on as I installed it. All of the components came from a really neat store in Tacoma, WA called Electronic Dimensions run by two retired military guys.
Here is the switch I hope to turn the lights on and off with. (Also two hinges that I picked up at a hardware store)
Radiation gauges may not be common in our time, but I was able to find this awesome Radicator... not sure what that is. Lol
Lights! The three already include bulbs and the one is just a diffuser that I hope to wire up with an LED.
Re-created the phone holder, this time using packaging material from computer packaging from new computers we got at work.
A gear and a resistor? (i think that's what it's called) to create a sweet dial that actually spins!
This side of the Pipboy doesn't actually have anything, but I saw this gauge that moves depending on the angle you hold it. I loved the idea of having something that moved without power and it turned out the be the perfect size for the indentation on the right side.
My first attempt at soldering was a success!
The other three lights are going to take more technical experience that someone at Radioshack said that they will help me with this Friday.
I had plans to use a clasp, but one side of the clasp seems to be doing the job of holding the backplate on, kind of a pinching mechanism.
One of my customers at work gave me some thin foam that was lying around when I showed him my progress. Not the prettiest, but it fits well and holds the pipboy tight enough on my arm.
And it all comes together to make one crucial companion to surviving an apocalyptic wasteland!
Now with lights!
A little big, but I'm glad to have it.
Thanks to everyone on this site for the pool of knowledge and the support to keep on creating.
