This week I am once again featuring a tutorial from our community, Prop-Builder extraordinaire Wraith 5 who you'll remember has been featured here on the blog before returns with his Mad Scientist Goggle build. I hope you all enjoy it, and I hope to return next week with a new build of my own.

Whether you're building a new Raygun to defeat your Superhero rival, or filling up a Plutonium Core to power your Killer Robot servant, a killer pair of Goggles can always come in handy (to keep stray lasers or plutonium juice out of your eyes respectively of course.) but can also make you look rather stylish.

-A Bottle with a width that's just slightly smaller than the height of the goggles (I used a contact lens saline bottle).

-Some corrugated/thick card or plasticard.
-Some slightly thinner card/plasticard.

-Transparent Plastic packaging of some sort (the thicker the better really).

- Miscellaneous circular items (small bottle caps or similar preferably)
-Paint - Black, Silver and brown.

Tools:
-Low Heat Hot Glue gun (or your plastic will get all melty)
-Scissors/X-Acto knife.
-2-Part Epoxy glue (optional)
-Time.

So the first thing to do is to take your bottle, and cut out two rings that are both around 2cm thick.

So far you should have something similar to this (don't glue it down yet):

Next, measure around the plastic rings onto the plastic packaging, and cut out the circles.
These will act as the 'welding lenses' for the goggles. Glue them onto the top of the rings, and paint the inside of the lenses black.

If you intend to be able to see out of the goggles, scratch a bit of the paint away, as wes did with the night vision goggles build.

Trace around the rings again onto the thinner card stock, and cut out the circles.

After this, glue the lens sections onto the card spacer:

 

After this is done, you can glue the circular gribblies (I assume them to be 'adjustment dials' or something) around the edges of the safety goggles. There are six; 3 arranged
on each side of the goggles.

This is where the epoxy comes in handy.. due to the slightly flexible nature of the goggles, hotglue really doesn't hold too well. I found this out for myself a few days after finishing the prop. (no pictures for this bit, but you can see from the final images on how to place them).

Once the glue is dry, you can crack on with painting!
I painted the main body of the goggles in a muddy metallic colour (mix silver and brown paints), then a darkened metallic colour (silver and black) for the 'lens barrel' sections.