Brown & Decker Like Black & Decker, only not.

Hey!

So, boy, has it been a busy week. Being the week of finals and all, it might make one's life a bit cynical.

Anyway.

In case you didn't know, this coming Thursday is opening night for Iron Man 2! God, I cannot wait. So, in the spirit of total bad-assed-ness, we decided to make Arc Reactors from the first movie.

Here's what we were going off of:



(Sorry I couldn't find a better reference picture)

Anyway. The idea was to create the arc reactor off of a tap light base, so that the light in the center would be self powered and wouldn't need a battery pack, and we wouldn't have to deal with those PESKY wires.

So, after four hours, and my fingers thouroughly stained by distressing ink, we have ARC REACTORS.

Hey.

So, if you see below this post, Jimmy is now able to write on our blog! Yaaaay.

Anyway. If you read his post, we were making more hats today. The mudkipz hats was a huge success when we wore them into class, and no one, and I mean NO ONE believed we made them. Now, THAT is a compliment.

Since then, we've made two more. I made my girlfriend a hat. It's pretty much a beanie with cat ears. Here's where the inspiration came from



And this was our take on it.



Not bad at all...

Also, Jim made a pikachu hat, but I only have one dark, blurry picture, that won't upload. :/

Expect to hear from Jimmy more often now.

Andy

Hey.

Because Jim and I like to keep up with internet stuff, it was time we made a Mudkip hat!

If you don't know, Mudkip is a pokemon that got unreasonable amount of attention on the internet. So we made a hat. I'm tired, so I don't feel like typing much.

Here's some pictures.











Andy

Hey.

So things went pretty smoothly today. We got another gauntlet done. This one went actually a lot smoother in that everything came together quite nice. The only problem is that as we went on with this one, we found more and more things wrong with the previous one. So instead of fixing the mistakes on the second one, we decided to simply copy the wrong one. That way they match.









Also, we made a helmet, but it was such a colossal failure that we only got one pic. Still looks cool though.



Andy

Hey.

Just a quick update before I head to work. The same day the SMG was finished, we also built a single gauntlet. It was a cool build, but pretty time consuming. The second one is on its way.





Andy

Hey.

So yesterday was an eventful day, and for many reasons, but namely that the SMG is done! When we started we scaled blueprints and cut cardboard. Since then we coated it in a few layers of fiberglass resin to give it a platic-y feel, and painted. The whole project I would say rounded out at about 30 hours. The next step is to get a molding kit and start making them out of plastic.







Andy

Hey.

Sorry I'm a little late. This post technically should've happened a few days ago, but here it is.

So, the SMG is really coming along. Next step is to resin and paint. Depending on how good that turns out, will change whether we mold or not.

And now...some pictures.





Andy