Look forward to your report!
Just tried my hand at making a disc holder from stuff laying around the house. I used 3 different tupperware containers cut to fit the disc's inner diameter. I made it a snug fit that requires almost a "snap on" kind of action. I'm going to mount it to my Jacket with magnets and have some in the disc as well, just in case. It still needs some clean up to get a smoother finish. Also, I'm pretty sure I'm going to remake the center top piece with the notch cutout from something thicker and smoother so the depression looks deeper. Over all though, I think it turned out decent.
Just peeled all the plasti-dip off. I'm going to make it a flat black instead. Took off the center cutout piece too. I may use a thicker foamie piece.
Hey up there...with the avery tape. Here is what the blue looks like with a very nice flash.
I wore it into Best BUy today when I picked up my copy of Tron Legacy. The store manager came up and jokingly offered me a job at the store to promote the movie.
Now onto serious business. I am hard at work setting up a diffusion method Tron costume, using what I have as a base. For those of you that have done this, what is the best method to add the black "edge" along the clear plastic, el wire, and reflective tape base?
Thanks everyone! I finished up version 2, but somehow it isnt quite what I had wanted. I made the center piece the same height as the outer ring which looked SA, but then it made my notch look weird, so I took it off.
I think I'm going to give it one more shot with the notch at half height or the outer ring (original style but taller) with a new set of pieces so I have this one just in case.
You have to think in 3D. Those peices are from left to right, arm torso, arm. The wrap around so that there are minimal seams and so that the pattern lines up with no mismatched edges. I know it looks odd, but thats how all the Spidy guys do it.
Yes, it's the same size as the tape they sell on their eBay listings.
'Difficult to attach' is a relative term these days. :lol The hard part is getting the glue to set enough to keep the wire in direct contact with the phos material surface, once the back coating is carefully peeled back away and the wires are in place. It's a bit of an experiment with placement, pressure, stable glue addition, and waiting 3-5 mins for a base setup.
Yes, the white lines seem to be the scribes for this particular type of tape. As you see, I have the wires, one touching each area on a side of the 'middle' white line. That does make placement and size of wire used a bit of a consideration as having one of those wires touching both sides of the phos material causes a short and it starts to burn the tape with a slow arc. :unsure
They may be out of stock here, but any quality site with 8xAA Battery Packs in a 12v configuration will offer these same basic battery types. You can find them in flat 1x8, rectangular 2x4, even round layouts to fit your needs. (i.e. 12v 10xAA 2200mAh Ni-MH Battery Packs)
I am actually going to start rubberizing my Siren suit material next week on Monday. I didn't want to officially announce it yet. But I think I finally found an air spray gun and compressor that is powerful enough to get that liquid latex rubber out of the nozzle and spray it eveninly and consistently onto my fabric. It is almost a little TOO powerful. It's a compressor that can be used to spray paint your house walls, cars, boats, etc. at least that is what i read in the reviews.So we are talking to our laser cut guy. Here are some designs for the inner ring cut out. Which one do you guys like the best?
Just wanted to come in and say thanks for this post. I was originally planning to very haphazardly cut and segment out the EL panel for the front of my costume, but with your post and my Girlfriend's experience with Bias tape, I managed to fold it very neatly for the front of the costume.
Its not finished, and I plan on using frosted transparencies ($45 for a pack of 100 at Office depot) to cover the panel, but some in progress shots anyway:
Looks great!!Got my EL panel in from Glowhut. Looks nice. I cut it up into four circles that I was planning to mount onto my boots for the Flashback Flynn look. Cuts easily and overall nice to work with.
Inexplicably though, only 3 out of four light up. I can't figure out why as they are all identical with identical connections and amount of panel. Maybe I got it wet or damaged it somehow. The whole panel was working before I cut it, so it must be something I did.
On a side note, It lights up a bit more blue than I expected. I am verifying with Glowhut if this panel is considered Bule/white or White/white. If its technically Blue/White then it could save alot of trouble going with the same color tape since White/white is hard to come by. Though I thought I was buying White/White.
Anyone have Blue on/White of tape from Glowhut? Does it look like mine?
In any case, I don't plan to buy another panel just to make a 2" circle... so I'll just use 1 on the outside ankle of each boot and forget the inside ones, which has the added advantage of allowing me to use an even smaller inverter. I may try the single AAA.
Also finished up my final version of my holder. Just have to mount some magnets and a metal ring for the inside. I decided to take off the wider base and make it just a hub coming out of my back. Also decided to go sort of glossy. I'm much happier with this one. I'll post a mini "how to" on it a bit later since some folks were asking.
I wish I had money to test them all to satisfy my perfectionist ass!
