Fettacini
Hunter
Hello all, back with a new build of some gauntlets. This will be my ultimate set of Prepro2 gauntlets
What started this? Glad you asked. I finally snagged a real Eveready minilight. Well, sort of. I grabbed an Eveready handy light( slightly bigger than the minilight but it fits very well actually) manufactured under Eveready's English brand, Berec. This particular one has been shown in some other threads as its the BOAC airlines branded light.
First off, big shout out to Hawk01 who helped me track it down and also supplied me with some fat dental files for this build.
We will start with the right gauntlet and make out way over to a new yellow left one eventually.
Starting off. Short list of supplies, gauntlets are RKD brand, mostly because they were inexpensive and I could buy just the shells. I 3d printed the hose connector and little protrusion piece above the darts. I had a spare resin whipcord launcher.
I used Quest Designs darts and I found some alco switches on ebay. Easy peasy.
I set about cutting the holes for the light and then sanded the housings and primed them with Gunze Sanyo Mr. Surfacer primer. I plan on using Duplicolor silver to base the gauntlets and will use humbrol maskol to mask all the damage.
In this series of pictures you can see the primed gauntlets, the accessories and the whip cord launcher already in progress.
The whip cord launcher was based in white and then masked and sprayed with Tamiya dull red to simulated the overspray and Tamiya gray spray to simulate the gray overspray on the other panels.
You can see my fat dental files, one in bare silver and one I coated on Tamiya clear red brush paint to simulate the anodized red.
The hose attachment was sprayed Duplicolor silver and masked with humbrol maskol as you can see. I used 3.5mm jacks from amazon for the attachment..
First up some pictures from the reference photos so you can see what I'm going for.
What started this? Glad you asked. I finally snagged a real Eveready minilight. Well, sort of. I grabbed an Eveready handy light( slightly bigger than the minilight but it fits very well actually) manufactured under Eveready's English brand, Berec. This particular one has been shown in some other threads as its the BOAC airlines branded light.
First off, big shout out to Hawk01 who helped me track it down and also supplied me with some fat dental files for this build.
We will start with the right gauntlet and make out way over to a new yellow left one eventually.
Starting off. Short list of supplies, gauntlets are RKD brand, mostly because they were inexpensive and I could buy just the shells. I 3d printed the hose connector and little protrusion piece above the darts. I had a spare resin whipcord launcher.
I used Quest Designs darts and I found some alco switches on ebay. Easy peasy.
I set about cutting the holes for the light and then sanded the housings and primed them with Gunze Sanyo Mr. Surfacer primer. I plan on using Duplicolor silver to base the gauntlets and will use humbrol maskol to mask all the damage.
In this series of pictures you can see the primed gauntlets, the accessories and the whip cord launcher already in progress.
The whip cord launcher was based in white and then masked and sprayed with Tamiya dull red to simulated the overspray and Tamiya gray spray to simulate the gray overspray on the other panels.
You can see my fat dental files, one in bare silver and one I coated on Tamiya clear red brush paint to simulate the anodized red.
The hose attachment was sprayed Duplicolor silver and masked with humbrol maskol as you can see. I used 3.5mm jacks from amazon for the attachment..
First up some pictures from the reference photos so you can see what I'm going for.
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