keefer
New Member
Well, so far has taken me about 2 hours if that to whip this up, thanks to the work of Macguyver. I need to make the blades for the ends, and a little fine tuning, but otherwise its done, and works like a champ!
Basically I took off 2 legs from a cheapie tripod I had, wrapped the ends with pipe insulating foam, dremmeled some patterns into a 1 1/2" thick pvc pipe, painted it, and then shoved the 2 tripod legs into each end of the pipe. I initially was planning on bolting the 2 legs together, but the fit with the pipe insulation was so tight that there is no need, they are securely in the pipe and wont come out unless i need them to. The 'automated' extension works fantastic, people are amazed and wonder how the hell I did it.....just a quick turn of your wrist and both ends come out very quickly. Truly amazing, and sooo easy! Thanks again Macguyver...you made this part of my project quick and relatively painless! Next up is the backpack/plasmacaster, then redoing my gaunts, then if time allows, redoing my armor, all from last years costume. Here's some pics of the spear so far....its not quite done yet though...
This is the end of the spear closed.....not sure if I am going to stick with the 'blade' that is on there now..got that from a sword from the dollar store, not bad..what do you think? (and yes, the ends will be pointy when I am done..the little 'ball' will be gone)
Spear extended....
Here you see the ends of the tripod legs wrapped in pipe insulation, which once I stuff them in the pvc, is in there nice and snug. You can see the bracket on the end of the one tripod I originally was going to use to connect the 2 legs together,but dont need it anymore
Close up of the PVC pipe, dremmeled the patterns on it, sanded it down a bit, painted it with black plasti dip, then sponged it with silver acrylic
Basically I took off 2 legs from a cheapie tripod I had, wrapped the ends with pipe insulating foam, dremmeled some patterns into a 1 1/2" thick pvc pipe, painted it, and then shoved the 2 tripod legs into each end of the pipe. I initially was planning on bolting the 2 legs together, but the fit with the pipe insulation was so tight that there is no need, they are securely in the pipe and wont come out unless i need them to. The 'automated' extension works fantastic, people are amazed and wonder how the hell I did it.....just a quick turn of your wrist and both ends come out very quickly. Truly amazing, and sooo easy! Thanks again Macguyver...you made this part of my project quick and relatively painless! Next up is the backpack/plasmacaster, then redoing my gaunts, then if time allows, redoing my armor, all from last years costume. Here's some pics of the spear so far....its not quite done yet though...
This is the end of the spear closed.....not sure if I am going to stick with the 'blade' that is on there now..got that from a sword from the dollar store, not bad..what do you think? (and yes, the ends will be pointy when I am done..the little 'ball' will be gone)
Spear extended....
Here you see the ends of the tripod legs wrapped in pipe insulation, which once I stuff them in the pvc, is in there nice and snug. You can see the bracket on the end of the one tripod I originally was going to use to connect the 2 legs together,but dont need it anymore
Close up of the PVC pipe, dremmeled the patterns on it, sanded it down a bit, painted it with black plasti dip, then sponged it with silver acrylic
