AJLoCascio
Sr Member
This post is long overdue!
First off this is all thanks to @Hurd Drafting L who is one of the kindest and most generous people I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. I never thought I'd be regularly texting with some random Rocketeer Helmet salesman I met through ebay. Seriously Aaron you are the BEST!
So all my life I've wanted a Rocketeer pack and I both could never afford it and simply didn't want a rocket pack made for someone that is 6' 3" when I'm only 5' 7" - I would look terrible in a screen cast Rocketeer pack!
So for years I thought about making one on my own, but then I met Aaron Hurd and he made this dream a reality! Aaron a 3-D file of the pack and scaled it down to my proportions and printed this sucker over the course of a month!
This build is all thanks to him!!!!
After months of sweating and TONS of sanding (seriously I burnt out a completely new electric sander on this project) I finally can share it!
Here is how it showed up. Just look at that box! (my dog was very curious)
Here are the pieces roughly laid out + some paper towels my dog had just shredded.
Here it is roughly taped together
Here are the Rocket / plunger things - they were broken up in a weird way, but I realized if I sawed them in half and fit them together I could get something more or less close to screen accurate.
Here is the original fan housing, it wasn't super accurate so I tried re-sculpting it, but after seeing what i was going through Aaron printed me a brand new one that he designed that was SO much more accurate and fit like a glove!
After regularly sanding for over a month I started to assemble & prime the crap out of this thing to get rid the 3-D print texture. I also dremled out the grills at the bottom of the rocket tubes and re-sculpted the opening a bit to match the proportions of the film version more. I wound up entirely remaking the part that connects the top fan housing to the bottom with some heated styrene and pipe.
The one thing I hadn't anticipated is this was so hard to assemble and get all the pieces to match up right. It took weeks to get the measurements right and make sure everything fit together correctly. I'm also doing this with very basic hand tools in a one-bedroom apartment so there is little space to do this "right."
I made "eggs" using heat-form plastic molded over a wooden egg I found at Michaels.
I remade the bottom grills out of triangular strips of white styrene I got from a hobby store.
Continued in the next post....
First off this is all thanks to @Hurd Drafting L who is one of the kindest and most generous people I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. I never thought I'd be regularly texting with some random Rocketeer Helmet salesman I met through ebay. Seriously Aaron you are the BEST!
So all my life I've wanted a Rocketeer pack and I both could never afford it and simply didn't want a rocket pack made for someone that is 6' 3" when I'm only 5' 7" - I would look terrible in a screen cast Rocketeer pack!
So for years I thought about making one on my own, but then I met Aaron Hurd and he made this dream a reality! Aaron a 3-D file of the pack and scaled it down to my proportions and printed this sucker over the course of a month!
This build is all thanks to him!!!!
After months of sweating and TONS of sanding (seriously I burnt out a completely new electric sander on this project) I finally can share it!
Here is how it showed up. Just look at that box! (my dog was very curious)
Here are the pieces roughly laid out + some paper towels my dog had just shredded.
Here it is roughly taped together
Here are the Rocket / plunger things - they were broken up in a weird way, but I realized if I sawed them in half and fit them together I could get something more or less close to screen accurate.
Here is the original fan housing, it wasn't super accurate so I tried re-sculpting it, but after seeing what i was going through Aaron printed me a brand new one that he designed that was SO much more accurate and fit like a glove!
After regularly sanding for over a month I started to assemble & prime the crap out of this thing to get rid the 3-D print texture. I also dremled out the grills at the bottom of the rocket tubes and re-sculpted the opening a bit to match the proportions of the film version more. I wound up entirely remaking the part that connects the top fan housing to the bottom with some heated styrene and pipe.
The one thing I hadn't anticipated is this was so hard to assemble and get all the pieces to match up right. It took weeks to get the measurements right and make sure everything fit together correctly. I'm also doing this with very basic hand tools in a one-bedroom apartment so there is little space to do this "right."
I made "eggs" using heat-form plastic molded over a wooden egg I found at Michaels.
I remade the bottom grills out of triangular strips of white styrene I got from a hobby store.
Continued in the next post....
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