I had lost much of my WIP to the digital depths, but I've reconstructed it with an Instagram photo collage:
Construction materials include cardboard mailing tubes, a carpet tube, 1/8 and 1/4 inch sintra, plastic juice bottles, shampoo bottle, PVC plumbing fitting, plastic easter eggs, shower arm flanges and wood filler for seams.
Gathered pieces and assembled box. I found a pattern on TDH that I used for the box and nozzles. The box was cut from the 1/4" sintra, the nozzles from 1/8" sintra heated and wrapped around mouthwash bottle caps. The tubes were also wrapped in the 1/8" sintra and assembled together with vinyl ashesive. The nozzles are bolted into place.
4"-3" PVC adapter on top of center tube with Easter egg topper and juice bottle bottom. Bottom of fuel tubes capped with Easter egg bottoms, juice bottle tops on top. Shampoo bottle split in halve and two halves placed along dorsal of pack.
Primed, filled, sanded and primed again. The box looked blank so I found some neat greeblies in the dump bin at work. These were the blade guard to a table saw I halved and placed between the tubes, flush with the leading edge. I didn't like the look of the bottle tops on the fuel tubes so I used shower arm flanges to cap them off.
Masked, painted and detailed. Silver chrome base coat, with shiny racecar red trim. Mmmm.... pretty!
Weathered and finished with a little rust, some carbon scoring, paint scratches and a ding or two.
All in all, a weeks worth of work and maybe $20 of materials (that I didn't already have on-hand).
