Small update today. Since I had my headset on the brain and took it town to compare the plastruct knob I was measuring to make sure I had the right one I decided to do a quick accuracy upgrade to the paint. Masked off the camera flash and the cam body to paint the upper button and the switch black ...

So Xhiwar DMd me asking about the plastruct knob dimensions and I'd been planning on posting up close references and measurements of several pieces anyway so heres the first part in my series: Found Part Measurements. Where I'll be posting up detailed measurements of various found parts in my ...

Scapey wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:40 pm And I trust Jade to clean up my Terry English armour

Promise She'll come back stronger than ever!

Amazing work Roman. Your thread is going to be my bible for this build. Amazing work

That brass tube extension on the T junction is brilliant! Looking good


Cheers. I cant remember who identified that the hero helmet had the t junction attached to some PVC or ABS tubing on the FB group, i decided to go with that and use brass cus I love brass. The little groove is great too cus ...

So as mentioned before, I wasnt super happy with the angle on the megatron scope so I bought a new one and repeated the process, this time with a more accurate angle which I painted and mounted

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When the time came to do the more accurate t junction i constructed it out of ABS pieces from EMA. Sadly the piece that holds the olympus strain relief rubber bit isn't identified so I need to get the piece resin printed to complete this.

I mounted the T junction to some brass tube and sanded down ...

Some more pictures from the previous step:

Next I cut the printed in knob off of the camera, put some threaded rod into the plastruct knob and mounted it to the camera body.

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I finished off the detail piece for the cup arm by drilling a small hole in the body and putting in a ...

Something I've never seen mention of is the greeblie inside of the Olympus flash strain relief.

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I noticed that it had the characteristic plastruct green that we see on the gas lamp knobs.

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so I went to work searching ...