Other things you have modded or built yourself

Since we are fairly creative here I was wondering if anyone else has other modding interests?
Here is my current PC case that i sprayed red. Its a Cosmos S with the clear window kit in it.



Feel free to post some things that you have changed to suit your own tastes!
Cheers
CAL

Gundam Kits











Warhammer 40k



Also built lego, paper craft, tamiya kit cars.

Kind of off topic but whats gundam

JacobYeah wrote:Kind of off topic but whats gundam

An anime/cartoon series about mecha suits and space battles. Was pretty epic from what I remember of it.

Warhammer 40'000 and Lord of the Rings figures, from Games Workshop.

And a variety of other things.

A potato cannon and and a few other fun things hehe.

Cars:
r31 skyline
Subaru Brumbry
VC valiant

I Hopup R/C cars as well
Got a huge list of R/C cars
All eith HSP or Traxxas

I do like potato cannons, I have a pretty large combustion cannon that has some decent recoil, and a smaller one that I'll eventually set up metered propane on.

I sometimes design my own BMX parts with AutoCAD, and send off the designs to have them built. so far I have had 2 frames, 2 sets of pegs, 2 handlebars and a pair of bearing spacers made. the latest frame has lasted 2 years and still going strong so I'm pretty proud of that.

R31 skyline as well, actually that's more of a money pit...

...and the latest one is a little R/C chopper that I've taken the side lights off to make it lighter, and then I might rig up a battery mount for a trustfire battery. anyone know if you can run more than 3.7v through it without frying the main circuit board? because it needs moar powah! than the stock battery, but I don't want to kill it...

CBF yes you can run more thsn 3.7v but not much you neeed to hop up your motor and get a few other parts.

How is the 31 a money pit?

ahh sweet. well, the R31 started as a trashbag with a dead gearbox, and whole bunch of other little things wrong with it, but I paid bugger all for it. since then I fitted a new box, fixed a fuel injector leak, put on extractors, strut braces, lowered springs, slotted brake discs and a few interior bits and it *was* going pretty well, but the 1st gear syncro has died, and the diff was getting a little noisy, and then finally now the fuel pump has died too. so before i get it on the road again i've gotta pump more money in to it... again...

ohh you doing that ...i just ripped everthing out and abotu to stick r33 guts in here lol

I also Collect and Modd 40k tanks n titans (forge world)
Oh and I have see upto 7.4 Volts on a RC chopper

I do my own music electronics adjustments etc, but only on the guitar end. Never really meddled with pedals or amps besides fixing crappy input/output jacks.

BMX frames and parts i made them back in the mid 90s, still have some in the shed today.

My first car a Toyota Landcruiser SWB, stipped it down to its chassis and rebuilt it from there.... bought it in 1984, for $2000. Sold it in 1987 for $12'000. I was both lucky and unlucky but that's another story.

Arkham wrote:ohh you doing that ...i just ripped everthing out and abotu to stick r33 guts in here lol

I also Collect and Modd 40k tanks n titans (forge world)
Oh and I have see upto 7.4 Volts on a RC chopper

yeah... damn qld p-plate laws are the only thing that's stopped me from dumping an rb25 head on the rb30 block an running a little turbo. i'll probably end up doing that soon anyway and suffer not driving it for 12 more months.

and can you really go that far with a stock 3.7v r/c circuit board? i don't really know anything about electronics other than knowing how to voltage mod stampedes and vulcans haha

Just a few things here and there done to it...

@matt.chopper - Haha, a potato cannon. I've made a pneumatic air gun that shot the rubber heads of lanard darts and marbles. That was quite fun.



Ah back in my young days. Can't believe it's been almost 4 years since I've made it. It no longer exists though,.

funny you should post that ball valve cannon, i'm actually about to start building something fairly similar after christmas. got the 25mm class 18 ball valve sitting on the table next to me!

Since we got a car or two in here, this is a Hyundai that I used to own, all build by me.







oh and a LC GTR I used to have as well...also built by me.

Holy moly. No wonder you guys are great at modding and painting, look at what you did to those cars!

Yeah I built my own bookcase... It turned out pretty good, just basic planks of wood drilled and screwed together.

Does this count...



Cheers,

What is that clunk? Looks like a crane with some vacuum cleaners on the front lol. Did you mod the vacuum cleaners?

Calico wrote:What is that clunk? Looks like a crane with some vacuum cleaners on the front lol. Did you mod the vacuum cleaners?

its a drag-line excavator. im assuming you had to build/put together part of it after it arrived at the mine site?

Yeh, it's a Bucyrus Erie Dragline - used in the mines for removing the overburden to expose the coal.

Those "vacuum cleaner's" at the front are 140t hydraulic cranes. Tip of their boom is approximately 75m above ground level. On that particular job, we'd just replaced the entire boom.

Cheers,

That would have been some job clunk, how long did that take?

Normally anywhere from 3 to 7 days, depending on the Contract company, and how many guys they throw at it. It's not that big of a job really, but there's heaps of things that can go wrong.

Check out this video of what happens when things go wrong. No, that's not me swearing... I'm the guy holding the camera who is speechless...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOg7vL3rNY&feature=share

Cheers,

Just watched that vid.......yeah he said it well.......that's an insane thing to go wrong.

Yeh, it was pretty crazy. But, no one was fatally injured, so that's a bonus!!

I might add, that I wasn't working for the crane company at the time. They specialise in major lifts all around Australia, and, as such, some of their cranes aren't compliant to the mining industry.
The issue with that lift, was the guy engaged the free-fall on the winch. That function is generally locked-out in most work site's - to avoid issues like the one on the vid.

I suppose, having to deal with problems like that, is why those guys are on the big bucks!!

Cheers,

I helped to build a $6m crushing plant. I was the "Hey mate, just jump in there for a minute." guy. I think If I wasn't there, none of the place would have been built

Don't know if this counts or not, but:

Here, a robot

Sorry for bad quality. Made using Arduino and some other bits of electronics chucked in.

Not so super impressive, but, here's an Airsoft gun I just finished with.



Interchangable barrels, extended stock, some aesthetic mods, repaint, yadda yadda... uncreative client to say the least but it's new territory for me, so, worth posting. And, as per usual, it works flawlessly... packs a punch but frankly I'll stick to Nerf, more satisfying, more unique-looking, and the ammo can be found and reused. :p