Pannaus Props
Sr Member
It's been quite a few time since I've wanted to make an Arc Reactor, but even though the first one was very hard and time consuming to do, I went on to think about the New element Arc Reactor from Iron Man 2.
That's also because I want it to sit behind the chest piece of the Iron Man Mark Vi armor (if I ever do it ahhahah).
So I went on to make some templates based on this image from the movie:
And these were the parts cut
At first, I thought about using 3 AA batteries with their holder, but this implied making a 3.8 cm thick reactor! Something I really didn't want to do. I wanted to be as portable and slim as it could.
Then a very nice idea struck me and I sacrified the battery of my phone to give it a try!
This allowed me to save about 1.2 cm getting down to this:
Instead of using Nthousand smd leds, I decided to go with one 1w led and the very nice irradiating system of the flash lights and that brought me to this:
I then went to Auchan and get some cheap transparent blue folders to make the colored filter and cut a circle out of some semi-translucent white acrylic 2.5 mm:
I then went on to make the details of the very upper part of the reactor:
I made the beveled part of the metal using some putty:
The parts where molded and then cold cast.
And here you can see the inside part where the battery and the custom-battery holder sit:
Final result:
Attached to the shirt:
adn beneath the shirt (red is not an intelligent color hahaha)
That's also because I want it to sit behind the chest piece of the Iron Man Mark Vi armor (if I ever do it ahhahah).
So I went on to make some templates based on this image from the movie:
And these were the parts cut
At first, I thought about using 3 AA batteries with their holder, but this implied making a 3.8 cm thick reactor! Something I really didn't want to do. I wanted to be as portable and slim as it could.
Then a very nice idea struck me and I sacrified the battery of my phone to give it a try!
This allowed me to save about 1.2 cm getting down to this:
Instead of using Nthousand smd leds, I decided to go with one 1w led and the very nice irradiating system of the flash lights and that brought me to this:
I then went to Auchan and get some cheap transparent blue folders to make the colored filter and cut a circle out of some semi-translucent white acrylic 2.5 mm:
I then went on to make the details of the very upper part of the reactor:
I made the beveled part of the metal using some putty:
The parts where molded and then cold cast.
And here you can see the inside part where the battery and the custom-battery holder sit:
Final result:
Attached to the shirt:
adn beneath the shirt (red is not an intelligent color hahaha)