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This episode of Indymogul is brought to you by T Mobile. Welcome to BFX season two, still the best show in town for your low budget special effects needs, but now, with bigger test films and better builds. But enough of this season two talk, let us talk about right now, it is mogulween baby so let us get in the mood. This is more like it.
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Wait, wait, wait you did not think we would start season two without a beat and new intro did you? We roll it.
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For those of you who were not here last mogulween let me get you up to speed. Every October we celebrate one of our favorite holidays by bringing you four Halloweeny type build. Why? Because every horror movie hero needs a bad ass weapon and we are going to build one for cheap. Gary, spin the wheel.
Yes master.
Six card board shipping tubes, a sheet of scrap phone core, cordless screw driver, half an old film canister, an L bracket, some plastic tubes from the junk shop, a random empty bucket, a roll of friction tape, a small scrap of 1x3, some scrap wooden dowels and a skateboard wheel we took from the dog.
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So if you have not guessed our arm mounted gatling gun is going to be powered by our little cordless drill. A 1x3 metal L bracket and skate board wheel will provide the only functioning structural integrity and the rig we build around it needs to be super light and super cheap. Which means on our budget the rest of this build is going to be card board and rickety plastic.
The first thing I did was build the part of this rig that is actually going to do the work. So I bolted our L bracket to a nine inch length of 1x3. Then I bolted our skateboard wheel to that, the next step is to use some screws to bolt out film canister lid to the skate board wheel. Do not forget to make a hole in the lid to allow you to unbolt the skate board wheel if needed. Now to help it spin, we tape on our cordless drill to the 1x3. Now to build the barrels.
I am going to use six shipping tubes that are 16 inches long and one and a half inches in diameter. Next to use your film canister lid to trace out four circles on poster board and carefully cut them out. Next glue three of these circles together and trim the edges. We need to figure out where to cut the holes for the barrels to slide through and I actually used the old empty film reel to help us line up the hole.
To cut these holes out I used one and five eight inch diameter hole. Use the same technique to cut out the holes of our single remaining cardboard circle then push the barrels through. They should fit very snag so you should not need to use any glue. Next take our scrap dowel and cut it into six pieces that are about two inches long each. Using wood glue secure this flush to the ends of each barrel. For the business end of the barrel I left the tube caps on and drilled a hole inside. Now use some wood screws to attach the barrels assembly to the spinning hub. Hurray, now it spins with a motor.
The last step is to build a simple shell around these working parts. I use some tubes, buckets and a lot of hot glue to make mine but you can design your shell with what ever you have laying around, the last step is a paint job and you are good to go. But guess what? It broke. This thing that was like the little drive wheel which is attached to the drill broke off. Six hours to the shoot and we are maybe —I am going to take this which I am stealing from Jared, that end right here will fit nicely inside the drill but this is obviously too narrow. I need to make this thing the same with as that thing.
My solution, wrap it in a crap load of friction tape. All righ
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