trooper
Sr Member
well, so after many years of building these for every one else, I have been building mine....I think it's about time.
here are the cameras I'm using. they will get gutted , torn apart , and cut into pieces. so glad they survived 70 years....for this lol
so first I take the lenses apart and I clean thoroughly the individual parts. I did not remove the ring with knobs, I left it on and taped it off.
then I scuffed every thing down with a scotch brite, just enough so that there is enough tooth for the paint to stick to. you don't want deep scratches.
then I prepped all the parts with adhesion promoter....great stuff.
then using Tamiya paint, I airbrushed the first color on. the darker parts I used xf-53 with a little back to make it a little darker.
the bottom part of the lens that look like a cylinder got a good coat of xf-66, seemed like a perfect match. even when shot in black and white it matched the images of the prop
just looking to see what it looks like on the plate
so now I have the connector plate off of the box. I'm I'm going to use the small tab plate in place of the green tab plate. since it getting screwed to the eumig, no need to waist a very rare plate
first I need to fix it so it will sit flat. lets start by removing the rivets and taking off the chrome spring plate
next, lets very gently beat this this into submission so that there is no hump in the middle causing it to not sit flat.
with some small effort, and tweaking the plate back into square, task complete !
so now i just need to mount it on the eumig. after this I took the plat and screwed it back to the connector box, fed the screws back through their holes and added the nuts and cut off the excess screw and added a dab of thread lock so the nuts will not back out....ever !
next , the seagull knob, I want my knob to turn, so I came up with this. by stacking washers inside the center less than .5mm thicker than the center lip, I can take a larger washer for the top and bottom that match the seagulls size inside. this will allow the knob to rotate. the plastic washer is some thing I made from abs plastic since I could not find a correct size washers. also this being black it will help hide it 's self, but it only sticks out the bottom less than 1mm
I sanded down the b&h dial and knob so that it will fit inside, may not be accurate, but it is a functioning knob, and that's cool
here is a quick video of where I'm at with the build. I need to catch up on the pics and details later
https://youtu.be/_IwRArutkbo
here are the cameras I'm using. they will get gutted , torn apart , and cut into pieces. so glad they survived 70 years....for this lol
so first I take the lenses apart and I clean thoroughly the individual parts. I did not remove the ring with knobs, I left it on and taped it off.
then I scuffed every thing down with a scotch brite, just enough so that there is enough tooth for the paint to stick to. you don't want deep scratches.
then I prepped all the parts with adhesion promoter....great stuff.
then using Tamiya paint, I airbrushed the first color on. the darker parts I used xf-53 with a little back to make it a little darker.
the bottom part of the lens that look like a cylinder got a good coat of xf-66, seemed like a perfect match. even when shot in black and white it matched the images of the prop
just looking to see what it looks like on the plate
so now I have the connector plate off of the box. I'm I'm going to use the small tab plate in place of the green tab plate. since it getting screwed to the eumig, no need to waist a very rare plate
first I need to fix it so it will sit flat. lets start by removing the rivets and taking off the chrome spring plate
next, lets very gently beat this this into submission so that there is no hump in the middle causing it to not sit flat.
with some small effort, and tweaking the plate back into square, task complete !
so now i just need to mount it on the eumig. after this I took the plat and screwed it back to the connector box, fed the screws back through their holes and added the nuts and cut off the excess screw and added a dab of thread lock so the nuts will not back out....ever !
next , the seagull knob, I want my knob to turn, so I came up with this. by stacking washers inside the center less than .5mm thicker than the center lip, I can take a larger washer for the top and bottom that match the seagulls size inside. this will allow the knob to rotate. the plastic washer is some thing I made from abs plastic since I could not find a correct size washers. also this being black it will help hide it 's self, but it only sticks out the bottom less than 1mm
I sanded down the b&h dial and knob so that it will fit inside, may not be accurate, but it is a functioning knob, and that's cool
here is a quick video of where I'm at with the build. I need to catch up on the pics and details later
https://youtu.be/_IwRArutkbo
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