bigbisont
Well-Known Member
Why do I keep doing this to myself when I could buy a very nice one ready made? Cuz its cheap! DIRT CHEAP! The only thing I baught for this was the real pentax 110 lens. The rest cost nothing as I made it literally from scraps.
Now...it didnt turn out quite as well as I hoped (i hoped for perfection). I didnt really have any good reference info for the back, so I kinda winged it. The final build looks a little bottom-heavy/saggy to me. But its no worse than a cheapo resin cast right?!
Step 1, cutting up some PVC pipe leftover from another project
(the 2 pieces fit each other snug. The smaller one is where I will mount the Pentax lens to)
I drew up a template in microsoft "Paint" and printed out a few different sizes. When I found one I liked I traced it on to a scrap piece of plastic I had (it used to be a small trash bin). I then used a utility knife and tin snips to cut out what will be the shell
Got my pieces now
.
Dremmel tool to clean out some details
Glued some more scraps to act as spacers to build up levels and also let the shell hug the pvc pipe to reduce wiggle
A Dry-fit (using another longer piece of pvc in place of the camera lens. Dont want stray epoxy or dremmel bits near the lens after all!)
Now bondo to the ridges and filling in the gaps. Little carving and eyeballing, and a few more bits glued on from the big box of "crap I might need so I never throw away".
Pentax lens back cap glued to smaller pvc.
Primed and ready to sand/tweak and paint. (knobs are the cap to a super glue tube which i cut up. All scraps!)
Now the only question is " 'real deal Brown Bess', 'it looks that way Olive Drab', or 'who freakin cares black' "?!
Again, not perfect, but its a start toward my gear. And at that price I'll take it!
Now...it didnt turn out quite as well as I hoped (i hoped for perfection). I didnt really have any good reference info for the back, so I kinda winged it. The final build looks a little bottom-heavy/saggy to me. But its no worse than a cheapo resin cast right?!
Step 1, cutting up some PVC pipe leftover from another project
(the 2 pieces fit each other snug. The smaller one is where I will mount the Pentax lens to)
I drew up a template in microsoft "Paint" and printed out a few different sizes. When I found one I liked I traced it on to a scrap piece of plastic I had (it used to be a small trash bin). I then used a utility knife and tin snips to cut out what will be the shell
Got my pieces now
Dremmel tool to clean out some details
Glued some more scraps to act as spacers to build up levels and also let the shell hug the pvc pipe to reduce wiggle
A Dry-fit (using another longer piece of pvc in place of the camera lens. Dont want stray epoxy or dremmel bits near the lens after all!)
Now bondo to the ridges and filling in the gaps. Little carving and eyeballing, and a few more bits glued on from the big box of "crap I might need so I never throw away".
Pentax lens back cap glued to smaller pvc.
Primed and ready to sand/tweak and paint. (knobs are the cap to a super glue tube which i cut up. All scraps!)
Now the only question is " 'real deal Brown Bess', 'it looks that way Olive Drab', or 'who freakin cares black' "?!
Again, not perfect, but its a start toward my gear. And at that price I'll take it!
