Jediseth
Sr Member
So I realize there are several Macrobinocular build threads on here. I've started my own just because I have questions and want help with and share my build. Also some other threads are very large and getting difficult to navigate.
To start my goal is to get as accurate as I possibly can within my financial abilities. This is an expensive build that takes money and patients to acquire all the necessary parts.
I'm slowly gathering parts and will probably need help with from some of the veterans who have built these and who have done lots of hard work gathering information and knowledge on building this prop. Trooper and some others on here have already been very gracious.
Here is my first part finished. I posted this on someone else's thread, but am posting it again here because I want to keep my questions and progress together.
This 8 pin connector called a EIAJ connector was taken from an Ibenez UE400. Not the exact screen accurate part, but very close. These are hard to find mostly because they are old and all the Macro builders need one. By purchasing the Ibenez for $155 free shipping I got both the female and male connectors which isn't the worse deal considering some of the old monitors that the female connector comes out of can cost you in the $50 range.
Here's what it looked like stripped out of the Ibenez
Today I received the lens plate from Dark Energy Creations
MB Lens Plate
There is something I noticed on his images that caught my attention. The direction the face plate is mounted. If you notice the side notch on the lens plate is at the bottom and not the top of the Macrobinoculars. I'm not sure this is accurate and I've seen many attaching it this way.
Here is a shot I took off my screen from the movie. It looks like the notch in the lens plate is at the top?. The plate from Dark Energy Creations I purchased has this notch on it. I've seen people place the lens plate both ways. Some placing the face plate notch at the bottom and some at the top of their Macrobinoculars so it made me look a little closer into what's going on.
I purchased the lens plate from Dark Energy Creations because I don't have the tools to make a threaded circle for the lenses and I think Dark Energy Creations has a very nice product. If I'm not mistaken it looks to me that the notch is at the top and the dark spot your seeing is the camera behind it.
To start my goal is to get as accurate as I possibly can within my financial abilities. This is an expensive build that takes money and patients to acquire all the necessary parts.
I'm slowly gathering parts and will probably need help with from some of the veterans who have built these and who have done lots of hard work gathering information and knowledge on building this prop. Trooper and some others on here have already been very gracious.
Here is my first part finished. I posted this on someone else's thread, but am posting it again here because I want to keep my questions and progress together.
This 8 pin connector called a EIAJ connector was taken from an Ibenez UE400. Not the exact screen accurate part, but very close. These are hard to find mostly because they are old and all the Macro builders need one. By purchasing the Ibenez for $155 free shipping I got both the female and male connectors which isn't the worse deal considering some of the old monitors that the female connector comes out of can cost you in the $50 range.
Here's what it looked like stripped out of the Ibenez
Today I received the lens plate from Dark Energy Creations
MB Lens Plate
There is something I noticed on his images that caught my attention. The direction the face plate is mounted. If you notice the side notch on the lens plate is at the bottom and not the top of the Macrobinoculars. I'm not sure this is accurate and I've seen many attaching it this way.
Here is a shot I took off my screen from the movie. It looks like the notch in the lens plate is at the top?. The plate from Dark Energy Creations I purchased has this notch on it. I've seen people place the lens plate both ways. Some placing the face plate notch at the bottom and some at the top of their Macrobinoculars so it made me look a little closer into what's going on.
I purchased the lens plate from Dark Energy Creations because I don't have the tools to make a threaded circle for the lenses and I think Dark Energy Creations has a very nice product. If I'm not mistaken it looks to me that the notch is at the top and the dark spot your seeing is the camera behind it.
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