Wesley's Weekly HOW TO Presents... Steam Punk Goggles
This week I am unfortunately busy with some personal projects, but in my place I bring you a guest blog by forum user Trspballer7, he made these great goggles, and I think they deserved to be shared. I should be back next week with a tutorial of my own, but I am always open to taking user submitted tutorials so people can see your hard work. Swing by the thread here, and submit your own tutorial, and if it's good enough, I might post it up soon! But for now, take it away Trspballer! ____________________
Steampunk-esque Goggles
By: Trspballer7
Shopping List:
Bronze colored acrylic Paint (NOT SPRAY PAINT!) Paint Brush 2- Styrofoam rings, bigger than eyes. One sheet of plastic or Plastic box (Like a Tupperware Box) Felt (Color of choice) Screws (Small but with big heads)
Elastic bands/Shoelace
Marker
X-Acto Knife/Dremmel (Rotary Machine)
Scissors
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
First step is to paint the rings. All you need to do is paint the top face. I could not fine bronze acrylic paint at my local craft store, so I picked up some yellow and burnt orange. First I mixed the colors until I got the desired color. And then I painted the face.
Now, I placed the ring on my thin plastic box, or plastic sheet if you found one. I traced the inside of the ring with a marker.
This is the hard and Dangerous part of the process. You have to cut the ring out of the plastic. To do this, I used a dremmel. Be careful and USE EYE PROTECTION, I even used paintball goggles. Cut the circle out larger than the circle. You should have this.
Now you are going to put the elastic strap on the goggles. To do this, take your elastic strap, and put it around you or your actor’s head. Give your self some leeway and cut the elastic. Now hot glue the elastic strap to the opposite ends of your goggles. Make sure the shoelace connect runs parallel with the straps, so they are on the same line. Your goggles will look like this.
This is a project where you can be very creative, you can have it any colors, I chose bronze because that is a main theme in the steam-punk style, although my paint did not turn out how I wanted it too. Silver is also a good color for this build. I also put screws into my rings on the front to give it even more of the steam-punk style.
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And there you go, hope you guys enjoyed this little guest blog, make sure to leave Trsp some good comments to let him know how much your appreciate his tutorial.
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First! Pretty cool, though I would have liked more pics =)
Yea, I have more pictures, wes just didn't put them on.
Overall, I think it went good, except for the paint job, but i will be looking for some better paint soon.
wow, third. cool goggles, reminds me of back to the future 3
i think it would be a little better to fit the plastic disks in the foam instead of just on the back of it, because i can see peoples eyelashes smudging the lenses. maybe cut a tiny slit into the top, that way you can slide it in, and change the color lense if you want.
OK!
this is pretty awesome, i just wish i could see you wearing them :)