Mini-Me jet pack

Geo

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• Apr 4, 2005

• #21

Sorry for not posting again until today. My wife and I took a short vacation to Sedona, Arizona. Fantastically relaxing and fun! Got back last night.

Anyway, THANKS for ALL of the great complements! It's been fun doing this. As far as painting and such, I was planning on leaving the red tubes clear and not painting them. (that's why I bought them in red).

Yes Stormtrooper@rushmore, that pice is a plug-in. It was the one with a small motorized fan unit.

I know the rocket is slightly smaller to scale also. But hey, who else other than "We the anal" (myself included when time permits) would notice.

I basically scaled down the plans to roughly 70% for it to fit my son. The rocket is about 60-65% scale.

I found a rocket at a hobby store that had the perfect pice and all I had to do was cut it in half and flip those to make the top part with the little fins on it. The upper most piece is a plastic propeller cone.

Water sounds cool too, thought about it but then he's only 8 yrs old. hate to have a soaked 8 yr old at C3.

Will post new pics when I paint it.

Thanks again for allof the nice complements!

Geo

 

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askywalker98

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• Apr 4, 2005

• #22

Dude thats too cool! if you filled them with water you could run a tube to a squirt gun that you could intergrate into the left gauntlet and full the speed loaders with some ExTrEmLy flamable liquid, and then put a mini-pen tourch just past the front nozzle of the squirt gun and then when that kid gets a-squirtin' it'll be the 4th of July!!!

Well...maybe not... but it seemed like a good idea at the time!

Keep us posted on his mando progress! Thats too cool!

 

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Geo

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• Apr 19, 2005

• #23

Update at top BUMP! Enjoy!

Geo

 

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TBone

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• Apr 19, 2005

• #24

Dude! Looks great. I bet your son is proud of his costume!

 

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Geo

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• Apr 20, 2005

• #25

Thanks. He can't wait to wear it at C3. I don't know how long he'll wear the jet pack. It's a bit heavy for him. I could've used a week just in tweaking and fittng. Oh well, soon we're leaving for Indy today. Still have a ton of work to do.

Geo

 

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askywalker98

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• Apr 20, 2005

• #26

Too cool man. Thats one awsome dad he's got there!

 

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E2K13

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #27

The little guy looked awesome at C3!
It was nice meeting you guys and cool watching your son's excitement as he ran around in costume. Really made me want my boys there.

 

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hansoloway

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #28

Geo, it was nice meeting you and seeing your son's gear, it was great. Although I wasn't nearly as hard core at building my son's Boba costume, I had so much fun "trooping" with him. If you ask him what his favorite part of CIII was, he'll say "everyone taking the pictures" of him. In second place was fighting Vader at the Jedi academy...

 

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wizardofflight

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #29

That costume ROCKS! The color combination is great. What helmet did you use? I may have to take on a similar project in the near future and threads like this are going to be a great help.

Just too COOL! Sound like he had a blast at CIII.

Alan

 

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Geo

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #30

Thanks guys! We allhad a blast, especially Alec. Yeah it was great watching him go from complaining about how unco,fortable the costume was when we were getting ready to "getting in to it" and aiminig his guantlet laser at people and throwing poses when taking pictures. It was very cool having kids (and adults) wanting to take pictures with him.

It was great finally meeting everyone. Hansoloway, you guys looked great together! You goota send me a pic! Eddi it was cool hanign with you too, I definitely want you to send me a pic of your Tusken photo outside against the wall with that dramatic lighting. That was sweet!

Thaks Wizardofflight! I used a JD kids helmet. They are awesom! Thanks again JD! It was also nice meeting you too! Great costume by the way! You need to give me your boots!

Thanks again guys, we had a great time!

Geo

 

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biomechaniod56

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #31

It was a pleasure meeting both you and your son. He seemed to be having a blast posing for pics. His suit looked great. And your suit looked great as well.

 

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Geo

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #32

Thanks! I feel like Seeker though, time to upgrade now that I have..uh...time.

 

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hansoloway

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #33

I wish I could send you that pic with the kids together, but I didn't get one...I think the only pictures shot were from other folks hanging around

 

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Geo

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• Apr 27, 2005

• #34

Yeah, there were a lot of pics I would have liked to have had. Gotta figure how to post my pics of almost 500.

 

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