From the Archives of Childhood

I was going through some old spiral notebooks I've saved through the years full of horrible poetry, doodles, and clearly nothing school related. I found one that was completely made up of some really bad drawings. And a few good.  They're all pencil drawings on lined paper. You know, top of the line stuff here.

Clearly I was the coolest kid on the block back then.  Ladies lining up around the corner. I'm serious...

What's also clear is my love of BTTF and Ghostbusters. So without further ado, here are some sketches by me from back in the day. Enjoy!

The Proton Pack.

This is more modeled after the pack from the real Ghostbusters. I'm almost positive I have a better oe somewhere.  But alas, I think it's a victim of time and moving one too many times. So here is the Proton Pack at least.  I vaguely remember sitting down with one of the packs fro the action figures in front of me while trying to draw this.

Delorean 1

This was my first attempt. Not the wobbly Mr. Fusion. Man I was bored that day. The doodlings of a bored teenager. I am going to assume this was during A.P. American History.  Le'ts pretend it is. I love how there is physically no room under the hood for anything. Not even a hoover board.

Delorean 2

This is a slight improvement on the first design. Also I remember using the BTTF Micro Machine as a guide. This was before the days of buying my own collectible toys. So I had to do with what I had. Also had to guess and embellish.  A lot.

Delorean 3

What is this? Some kinda of crazy Concept? Not a clue what I was doing here. Notice how the further I advanced with these the more I threw proportion right out the window. This was also as I started getting really into classic cars which influenced the big "Swish" antenna that you sometimes see on the Ghostbusters Caddy.

There you have it. A slight glimpse into the younger me. Really not much has changed. I still sketch ideas out in spiral notebooks too.

Flux Capacitor Part 1

Ladies and Gentlemen!

I've mentioned it, or hinted at it. Something. But now I'm actually taking on the challenge of building a mini Flux Capacitor. I mean who wouldn't want one of those just sitting there on their desk? You never know when you're going to need one. So I'm taking it upon myself to flood the world (or my desk) with the power of the the Delorean.

Reference photos have actually been difficult to find. Not because they're scarce, but because there are so many. They Flux Capacitor (from here on known as "FC") changed a little in each film and then of course again in all the replicas being built both privately and licensed.

But here is a pretty good photo just to get some basic ideas from:

This is one of the do it yourself kind. Love this kind! Doc Brown wouldn't have it any other way.

Now begins my attempt at making a smaller version of this amazing piece of technology.

Dimensions were taking from the actual electrical box that it's housed in and just shrunk down. As far as my projects go, this one is the easiest to get measurements for because the things actually exist.

Pretty straight forward rectangle with sides ready to be assembled

I cut out the viewing port and will eventually cover this with a thin piece of plastic. 

There are no innards yet.  There is no nothing yet. Just a frame. A weird picture frame.

PRIMER!

For now this is it. As of posting these pictures I've moved on to step two which is to the the actually working pieces of the FL lit and properly aligned.  If I can I'll try to get some pics ready for upload tomorrow just so you can all see the magic of the light. oooh. Ahhh.

I know there isn't much here, but it's a start. It's very boxy. Once the FL has more structure I can start to round out the corners. While it is an electric box, it's not a perfect rectangle. That baby's got curves!