Animania + One Piece cosplay pics

[rallamajoop]

Expanding on that last post I threw together last week, despite a mildly disappointing turn out, Animania was a pretty excellent con experience. There was some fantastic art on display in the artist’s alley (I picked up three BRS prints from a table just a few down from ours, which may mark the first time I’ve ever bought fanart prints) and in a

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If you had asked me if I thought it was possible to build a Clima Tact

[sassamifrass]

I would have been all "HOW" o_O

So - amazing! Not surprised it was so well received :D Awesome job!

Re: If you had asked me if I thought it was possible to build a Clima Tact

[rallamajoop]

Easy! All you need is three Christmas baubles, a length of polystyrene pipe, and lots and lots of hotglue. (Heck, the grey sections are made entirely out of hotglue! Versatile stuff.) Now, a working clima tact - that's a slightly different kettle of fish. Or possibly more of a barrel of eels. Myself, I'll leap at pretty much any project that gives me the excuse to use another arduino these days. *g*

By Wai-con, I'm hoping to have the third section blowing smoke rings.

Perfect Clima-Tact!

[ext_1767285]

Just curious, would you ever consider selling this? This is the best Clima Tact I've seen!

Re: Perfect Clima-Tact!

[rallamajoop]

You'd never get me to part with the original, and don't think I'd be able to sell the bubble-blowing section in good conscience anyway (it's incredibly fiddly to use and has already required repairs several times). You might be able to talk me into making a second one with the more robust lightning and new smoke-making sections as a commission, but you'd be looking at a price tag somewhere in the order of hundreds of dollars to cover parts and labour, and it'd have to be in a period when I'm not already flat out with my own cosplay projects (so July at the earliest).

Re: Perfect Clima-Tact!

[ext_1767285]

That's fine! I'm just able to start working, and by the end of Summer I'll have plenty to spend. In the hundreds sounds perfectly reasonable; especially considering the craftsmanship of it. I have a few questions though

Re: Perfect Clima-Tact!

[rallamajoop]

1-2. Metal's out, I don't have the tools to work it the way I do plastic piping, let alone make all the notches needed to get the switches in. The pipes I use are very solid though, and it'll save a lot of time and fuss since I know what size they come in and can reuse the same templates I made for the first one

it's really AWESOME!!!!

[ext_4117758]

It is really hot stuff...!!!! I really desire to make like this one..!!
How did you cut your christmas balls..?!?! with a acryl knife?!?!
And... How did you put nut and bolt in the stick?!and where can I get that one?!

Re: it's really AWESOME!!!!

[rallamajoop]

Thanks! I actually later modified the third segment to spew smoke too. Photos here.

It's going back a fair way to remember now (this post is actually more than four years old!) but IIRC, most of the cutting was done with a hacksaw, with the christmas baubles held in a bench vice between some soft padding. Hell of a job - spheres are not an easy shape to work with, and trimming them to the right size to leave out the grey inset was annoying as anything. I eventually wound up making a half-sphere out of clay to fit inside a half-bauble, just so I'd have something solid I could use to force them to hold their shape while I worked.

The screw connections I think I installed by buying some thinner pipes with screw connections on the end and gluing them in. You can see part of the screw threads here, on the section I made to detach on the chain.

Thanks a lot!!!

[ext_4117758]

Thank you so much for your specific reply...!!
Yeah,,, I agree that spheres are hard job to cut .
I really thank you . I'll try to make climatact..! it's really help to know this.