Hank Pym's Portable Office Building from Ant Man and the Wasp

[TK-326]

I'm close to done with my attempt at a replica of Hank Pym's Portable Office Building as seen in the trailers for Ant Man and the Wasp. Overall I'm quite pleased with how it is turning out. Mine has a hinged lid with a cooler inside so it can be of practical use at DragonCon this year as I follow my wife around in her Hope Van Dyne Wasp costume. I've also put together Hank Pym's full costume with the brown field jacket, sweater vest, tie, glasses, etc. I did Pym in a suit last year at DragonCon, so this year's a bit more casual.

Some reference:



Construction is based on a rolling cooler with telescoping handle from Amazon.

Base is thick plastic sheet and pine lumber glued and screwed.



Sides and top are Sintra.



Slats and first floor storefront are styrene strips.





Windows are 3/8" stainless steel adhesive tape. I made extensive use of printed guides that I drew up in OmniGraffle and Adobe Illustrator to get the spacing correct for the window tape and the styrene strips for the slats.




Continued next post...

 

[TK-326]

Roof details are mostly 3D modeled and printed, with some Sintra and styrene parts. I'm waiting to see the film before I finalize the details and weathering in case there are any surprises that aren't shown in the trailers.






Scored and scraped the roof Sintra sheet, then applied a diluted paint wash to get the right effect.

 

[TK-326]

Image attachments in the second post are not showing up in-line. I don't know why.

UPDATE - I think I fixed it.

 

[Hoplitespear]

That looks spot on! A really unique idea! Are you going to add the small tiled paths to the roof?

 

[TK-326]

Yes! I plan to cut those from styrene sheet and glue them down hopefully this weekend if I can find the time.

 

[clanleader16]

Wow!! That looks great so far. Good job!

 

[Mike J.]

Brilliant – I love this!

 

[Psicorp7]

I think I need to make one of these to carry my Ant-Man suit around in. Brilliant idea!

 

[TK-326]

Detailing on the roof:

Cut and painted the walkway tiles, then glued them down.



Weathered everything with a gray acrylic wash:



- - - Updated - - -

Finished prop ready to carry beers and spare Wasp suit batteries at DragonCon 2018:

 

[Celtic007]

Really cool idea to make that and great execution of it!

 

[GAVAL]

Laws yes! Omg!

 

[Sw0rds4aSAMURA1]

What are the dimensions of the building?

 

[TK-326]

What are the dimensions of the building?

I built it as a 12" cube on a 1.5" base (the brown "first floor"). That sits on top of the rolling suitcase hardware (wheels and posts) of about another 2".

 

[Sw0rds4aSAMURA1]

Would you happen to have a template that I could use for all the stuff on the roof? I would like to see if I could make it out of cardboard but I just don’t know the size of it. Also thank you for answering my last question, it already got me started or making one of my own.

 

[TK-326]

This is the sketch I drew for the plan view of the roof details. Each of the outer sides would be 12", so you could measure and scale from there.

 

[OzytheHaystack]

Fantastic job, and what an original idea! I love it!

 

[bobatrek]

Great looking replica, neighbor! (Spring Hill, TN)

-Sean

 

[Jediguy]

I need to work on one for myself

 

[renaissance_man]

Looking good!
As soon as I saw the film I was tempted to make this replica.

 

[TK-326]

Finished prop ready to carry drinks and spare batteries at DragonCon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ABl0DYeU8