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Other Props • Re: Containment Unit Discussion & Build

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Yeah, we've been building this thing for ten years. I think that we can say with some confidence that we crawled so that others could run.

Is it alright if I ask if your gear is built or bought?
Is it alright if I ask if you welded the aluminum yourself? Sorry I asked.
Gotta love the fandom sometimes, right?

Well to answer your question, the aluminum handle and door for our containment unit was fabricated by Umoribawar/RJ Umowski from Freaky Geeky. I'm not sure if he's still producing parts for the community or not, but here is a thread praising his work: viewtopic.php?t=5470

We outsourced the work to him and he produced excellent results based on the blueprints and measurements that we had to come up with. So, it was more than just clicking a buy-it-now link on some site. At the time we didn't have the means of fabricating these parts ourselves. However, a member in our group Southland has the means to weld so we have since had access of being able to produce parts like these ourselves if we need to. So, there you go.

After talking about the backboard and it's lower curve, we have decided that we're going to make a new one. The one we have now has a slight warp in it anyways (gotta love Home Depot's shit wood) so it only seemed right to replace it. We're debating on what type of wood we should use. Personally, i'd like to just use MDF but unfortunately it's too heavy. We need something lighter in weight. I think seeing the ECU in the new film pushed us at making that decision. One detail that is given away in the new film is
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However, our build is based on the original and we're not doing any sort of amalgamation between the original and the Frozen Empire one. Plus, there are odd details on this new one that are strikingly different. We also think production might have based their measurements on these old fan plans:

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The dimensions looked a little off when we saw it up on screen. Some of the details we noticed matched these old plans (which are not ours). So, that's our hypothesis but that's obviously up for debate. I might be seeing the film again this weekend and if so will be laser focused on all of the ECU scenes. Looking/ watching/focusing/dissecting, lol.

This new backboard would only take us a day to cut out and have all sanded up. I mean, I am not sure if you all want to see that or not? What we do need to do is sit down and figure out the internal trap box mech. That's priority numero uno.

Statistics: Posted by 910dohead — March 28th, 2024, 9:31 am



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