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03/20/2006 Archived Entry: "David Levine's Rocketeer Jetpack"

My friend David Levine (me and David) posted some details about a Rocketeer costume he made some years back. Make-worthy, I think! "Front view, normal light. The two main tanks are a couple of crab floats, made of high-density plastic foam, spray-painted silver. The lower half of each float is wrapped in sheet aluminum, which forms the curve at the bottom. You can cut the aluminum with metal shears. The tricky part was getting all the pieces to be the right shape. I did it by creating a life-sized paper pattern for each piece in MacDraw (this was a few years ago and I don't have the files any more, sorry) and making sure it worked in paper before cutting it out of metal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack

Posted by Daniel Marsh @ 03/21/2006 06:38 PM PST