Things have been pretty quiet on the build front, mainly waiting for (mainly the welded) parts at this point to tie things together. I did however accomplish something today. A friend had sent me a piece of white neck foam a while back, so I was able to get it painted and installed. To make things easy I removed the ALICE frame from the MB to be able to have room to work around the top bar. I got the tube cut to length and used painters tape and strategically placed paper to mask off the edges before hitting them with black spray paint. I know some people choose other things, but that is what I had on hand and I wanted to get it done. The pictures below summarize the painting process which I repeated for the other side as well.
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Once the paint was sufficiently dry (I left it outside in the summer heat for a while), I got it fitted to the frame. Before the final fitting I cut a small piece out to provide room for the center piece of the frame. Once it was on I applied the gaffers tape to get a good fit and bolted the frame back to the MB.
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Once secured one can see the white inner foam peeking out similar to how it appears in the movie. The foam roll also hides the upper speaker grate fairly well, so only the trained eye would notice that accuracy deviation that I felt was justified by the killer audio. That’s it for now, I will also work on mounting the vac line this weekend and maybe start another project while waiting for parts (I have a brown gizmo, gigameter, second wand, other book project… other sale prop… just to name a few). I’m waiting for the welded pieces, custom (surprise) grate to cover the subwoofer, wand bezel, and at some point a custom Spengler specific wand knob… to name a few. I can also start prepping the booster ladder for when my parts arrive.
Once the paint was sufficiently dry (I left it outside in the summer heat for a while), I got it fitted to the frame. Before the final fitting I cut a small piece out to provide room for the center piece of the frame. Once it was on I applied the gaffers tape to get a good fit and bolted the frame back to the MB.
Once secured one can see the white inner foam peeking out similar to how it appears in the movie. The foam roll also hides the upper speaker grate fairly well, so only the trained eye would notice that accuracy deviation that I felt was justified by the killer audio. That’s it for now, I will also work on mounting the vac line this weekend and maybe start another project while waiting for parts (I have a brown gizmo, gigameter, second wand, other book project… other sale prop… just to name a few). I’m waiting for the welded pieces, custom (surprise) grate to cover the subwoofer, wand bezel, and at some point a custom Spengler specific wand knob… to name a few. I can also start prepping the booster ladder for when my parts arrive.
Statistics: Posted by edspengler — June 6th, 2025, 11:03 pm