TKSteve
Well-Known Member
Hey there: so for you wiring geniuses out there, this prolly won't matter much, but some of the amateurs out there might find it helpful.
Anyways, I bought the Museum Replicas Iron Man 2 Arc, and as some of you know, the most accurate part about it, really, is the stand. It's too thick to shove under your shirt, so I was thinking about unscrewing it all and rejiggering it to wear under my Sabbath shirt.
I'd reassembled the thing a couple of times before I had a better idea. I had a Think Geek Arc shirt, but since I was doing Avengers Tony, I wanted to use the light from that, and the triangle from the other. So I took that apart to see what made it tick...
Now I will at some point will just photocopy the triangle shape pattern and make a dupe out of cardboard for a different light source, but for now I just combined the light source from the Geek device, and the triangle and the light diffuser from the MR one...then I added a blue folder from a $1 store for tint...
...and voila...
Not too bad for an under-the-shirt prop, nice and bright (un-retouched light here) and it keeps the triangle for Avengers, yet the ruggedness of the Think Geek's switch/battery box.
Anyways, I bought the Museum Replicas Iron Man 2 Arc, and as some of you know, the most accurate part about it, really, is the stand. It's too thick to shove under your shirt, so I was thinking about unscrewing it all and rejiggering it to wear under my Sabbath shirt.
I'd reassembled the thing a couple of times before I had a better idea. I had a Think Geek Arc shirt, but since I was doing Avengers Tony, I wanted to use the light from that, and the triangle from the other. So I took that apart to see what made it tick...
Now I will at some point will just photocopy the triangle shape pattern and make a dupe out of cardboard for a different light source, but for now I just combined the light source from the Geek device, and the triangle and the light diffuser from the MR one...then I added a blue folder from a $1 store for tint...
...and voila...
Not too bad for an under-the-shirt prop, nice and bright (un-retouched light here) and it keeps the triangle for Avengers, yet the ruggedness of the Think Geek's switch/battery box.
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