Wednesday 18 April 2012

Zaku: Monoeye lens

Time is running out. I needed to make a decision on the mono-eye fabrication. Many options had gone through but none would look good or had too many safety compromises.

This one is the least that looked the best. Still kind of dangerous though. O well, I'll have to keep an eye on her then. (uh.. sorry)

Lexan plastic. Heating it up in my toaster oven. When it starts to droop in the window, I pull it out right away.


The best form I had around the house was this paint can. Whatever works!


Perfect diameter

To shape it further, I just took it to my belt sander. 


For the tint, I used some leftover auto tint.




Made a small accent ring out of craft foam. Hotglued it on. And voila!


Now, all i have left to do is:
- screens in the side windows
- hot glue the lens in
- custom cut some foam to fit my daughter's head
- maybe another final coat of top coat to seal things off a bit more for durability

2 comments:

  1. bonus, you can wear the helmet and read old school transformers power ratings from the box.

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  2. Haha.. nice!

    OR.. you can watch half of a 3D movie...1.5D?!?

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