Jump to content
Due to a large amount of spamers, accounts will now have to be approved by the Admins so please be patient. ×
IGNORED

Home brew acrylics


Recommended Posts

I saw videos on YouTube on making your own acrylics and read threads of AA’ers making them so I thought I’d give it a try :D

 

First I wanted to change the toy box drop plastic on Aerosmith from clear to fluro green. An A4 3mm sheet $8 from eBay, plastic traced then cut out using an Ozito dremel $39 from Bunnings. Holes were drilled by clamping cuts to wood and dab of wd40 on drillbit. Finish with wet/dry sanding with wd40. Took a while to get comfortable using the dremel but in the end it wasn’t that difficult to make.

 

332AE9AF-71CC-401B-8F79-9FC5B1B71CF7.thumb.jpg.b0867cff4257c41f005f4787109fb2a9.jpg

 

The fluro green seems to glow even when the pin is off

 

D31D6D59-41B2-48B3-8FA5-12A147DCD3E1.thumb.jpg.35b7de0bba80e9abffa85f06854517e6.jpg

 

I nabbed a full set of the Batman Hotwheels Classics from eBay for a great price, so now it was onto making plastics to mount them. I didn’t want to obstruct the view so it took a while to work out where I would place them and how to cut each shape. These were then bent into shape using a heat gun, 20 seconds is all you need to make the plastic workable.

 

Before

 

A701EC98-8A25-4AD0-8DB6-60E363150CD1.thumb.jpg.97378e3bb7f6748f13b8a28a1a6a3768.jpg

 

Batbike

 

AD1FC2EB-6115-4C1A-8B6B-CDC355EF6F65.thumb.jpg.6af817531f82bab54ccd79f032fd6e74.jpg

 

Batcopter

 

7CDFBA0E-099D-4F5F-9946-A07FF4916C4D.thumb.jpg.1f9cc62a170e480427f319f5805018e3.jpg

 

Ran out of metal posts to raise this plastic, so for now the batmobile and batboat can hang down low

 

6C2EB5F3-E46B-41A0-8934-101257AEC6EB.thumb.jpg.8cde17405d947041dc99d9baf81ae2b8.jpg

 

Pleased with the end result from an afternoon of modding �� Cheers

 

23949B2C-38DC-4368-B48D-D97C291239B4.thumb.jpg.7412c04a59de0f7660b16df6cfa04d94.jpg

 

D5264F7F-8CCF-4F5D-8366-E06656617796.thumb.jpg.edb212078c8d3418f04ca9d3e26db983.jpg

DC460404-5B00-4083-A7DC-7DEC23817919.thumb.jpg.fc6c8850fc6ffc8576370be44ac620ec.jpg

D9F8A9E7-5A50-4693-AE67-B901F10B82B5.thumb.jpg.325555be9e3d9bc81800d4d9c843eb61.jpg

1F493711-5ECE-47F0-BDFF-2B7CB71F6809.thumb.jpg.f67edafa47e1f081c0e50d2360089fe0.jpg

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...