My Walmart made "Stunt" arc reactor

protokev DMD

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I have a "Hollywood" themed party this friday and i want to go as tony stark, so i ordered a goatee (as my facial hair grows so slow itd take a year to be ready), but i wanted an arc reactor.

Now i knew i didnt have time to make a fancy one (especially since im in dental school) so my goal was to make a close enough one that would at least look good under a shirt. So i went to walmart and 20 or so bucks later i have this
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now unfortunately i didnt take lots of pics as i wanted just to get it done but here it is before i used electrical tape to make the dividers


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for the outer silver ring i used the casing from an led tap light (which wasnt the same color led as the next thing so i didnt use it)
the inner base is a camping tent light, i removed the backing and the inner hanger attachment,

the center ring is from a led latern that was not in any packaging just on the shelf. It runs on the same amount of batteries so i took out the led panel and the switch and soldered it to the battery terminals of the tent light.

I divided the ring with electrical tape and voila!

it is oversized compared to the original, but it will work for my purpose
 
so... the goatee turned out to be crap, and as my own is also crap but in a different way i decided to add some detail to the arc and let it show to distract from the lack of facial hair. I can get more pics of the arc but here is the only picture i have currently
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