Merugear Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Posted this on the FISD earlier, though I think it is more befitting for the MEPD . Hey there troops! Yesterday I went to a camping store to get myself some webbing, man was I in for a surprise! I am planning to make a Heavy Weapons Trooper, so eventually I will have to make myself a backpack and perhaps some other sandy accessories. Now I was strolling around the camping stuffs and found some items that made me think of that screen-used macrobinocular, used by a Sandtrooper. Now with some scrounging through the piles of items I found some items that could prove useful to me. Now a rundown of what I used to make this little accesory: A cheap tupperwear-wannabe container, conveniently shaped like the rangefinder/electrobinocs. A doorhandle 2 round push-knobs for caravan doors. 1 thingy to stick into tentpoles to make them have an iron hook on it. 1 tube with attachmentring (the most expensive part as they didn't sell seperately lol) Several wooden shish-kebob sticks So I bondoed the attachmentring to the end of the container, added the casing of the caravandoorknobs upside-down on the lid of the container to use as eyeholes and bondoed them as well. Put a knob upside-down next to the attachmentring for the left greeblie. Then I drilled a hole in the place where the right greeblie should be, and cut the plastic cap to the 'cross' (so that it appears as the greeblie seen on the movie) of the tentpolethingy. Secured that with bondo and added the doorhandle as a sunscreen above the eyeholes. Added advantage were the holes in the handle to attach it. I can now put a piece of string or such through them! Well here's my budget-binoc. Enjoy! The white stuff in the background is my ATA armor being made . Mom 'n Dad are on a holiday for a week or so so the livingroom has become my personal armor shop . Vincent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchy Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Scratch builds rule!! Mighty fine job you did there Vincent.. Keep up the good work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Very Cool! I'd like to know more about that knockoff "tupperware" base it's pretty close! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merugear Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 Very Cool! I'd like to know more about that knockoff "tupperware" base it's pretty close! It was an unnamed brand... Lay in the discount bin for about 3 euro's I reckon. Had this lip on the side to open the box. Also there was a movable cap integrated in the lid that you could use to pour liquid out (though we always used it for chocolate sprinkles on holidays ). I just bondoed that shut and cut the lip off with my plastic cutters. Hope that helps? Vincent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoCKo Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 great build, it´s always nice to see such creativity! (btw: i LOVE your signature image, that´s just hilarious!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHenry Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Previous postings on fabricating Macro-Binoculars. http://forum.mepd.net/index.php?showtopic=...p;hl=binoculars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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