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utilised special vacuformed pieces, a toilet cistern, and vintage
Tupperware!
- Mortar tube: 2.5" x 34" black PVC pipe (just
take your thermal detonator plate along and match the curve
to it) with white thermal detonator end caps
- White radar dish at end of mortar tube: The push-button
lid from a Tupperware jug (eBay)
- Radio Fascia, tool box and black round cup tops: from Mike
www.TK1536.com.
- Base boxes from SethB on MEPD, these are the screen accurate
seed trays and cost me about £30 inc postage. Or use
cat litter trays but they won't be accurate. Size should be
approx 14.5"L x 8" W x 4.5/8"H
- Bee stinger: I used a small round desktop bin I found at
The Range, and matched a plant pot tray to the top of it for
the lid. I'm swapping it though for an American
faucet frost cover which is oval in shape and more accurate.
The long bit that sticks out the bee stinger is a nozzle from
one of those putty gun things.
- The two cups are wet wipes containers, these will fit Mike's
cup tops perfectly. If you don't buy Mike's cup tops, search
eBay for these,
and just cut off the neck bit, spray and fit. They may be
slightly smaller than Mikes though and not fit as good.
- The bellows are Tupperware
burger stackers also from eBay but you need the rounded
top for them that joins to the toilet cistern, again Mike
used to make these, not sure about now.
- Finally you need one of these toilet
cisterns, butcher it and glue it to the burger stacker.
- Use Humbrol Sea Blue (47) to paint the bee stinger and two
cups. Steve thinned the paint down a bit before using it,
as you can only buy it in tiny pots!
Please click on a thumbnail to see an enlargement.
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List of ingredients!
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How the cup lids are fastened
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An old loo cistern gives its life for the pack
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This is a vintage Tupperware burger stacker, with a cup lid
attached to the bottom
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A bit of Milliput works wonders
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And hey presto, loo cistern now an intake manifold and bellows!
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US Army Alice backpack frame on the left, base boxes, bee
stinger and cups sprayed blue
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This is a weedkiller spray gun that is being butchered to
make the exhaust port box
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The finished box - all bumps milliputted out
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Bits ready to assemble. Note the "exhaust pipe"
which is 1" pvc pipe with various rubber rings and a
metal screw clamp arranged on the end.
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To fasten the bellows to the base box we put a large tie-wrap
round the bellows....
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Then threaded a narrower tie wrap through the fat tie wrap
and through holes in the base box
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Two screws were put through the round part of the toilet
cistern and through into the box. Solid as a rock now!
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Exhaust port detail
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Need to fasten base boxes together then mount onto frame.
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Cistern mounted to base boxes with a smaller tie wrap slotted
through a larger tie wrap that circled the hamburger press.
Cistern also held in place with screws
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Balsa "lip", hot glue then filler stuck the base
boxes together
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Bee stinger lid tie-wrapped to main body
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Side view showing placement on Alice pack frame
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The 5 small cylinders on right side are 3.5" sections
of 1" PVC pipe
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The finished pack!!! |
And fully weathered........
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