{"id":10489,"date":"2018-04-11T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2018-12-25T19:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:42:55","slug":"16-scale-power-wheelchair-upgrades-steampunk-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2018\/04\/11\/16-scale-power-wheelchair-upgrades-steampunk-style\/","title":{"rendered":"1:6 scale power wheelchair upgrades: steampunk style!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been improving my 1:6 scale power wheelchairs in recent months, and I finally finished my steampunkish power chair. Pics below.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The base of the chair — lower frame, footplate, and wheels — comes from a Drastic Plastic FDR doll<\/a> who came with a super cool but very fragile wheelchair as an accessory. This set, being issued 16 or 17 [!] years ago, is pretty much antique in 1:6 scale terms, not to mention incredibly rare. So what better way to use it than by modifying it into complete unrecognizability in the inimitable MW way?<\/p>\n

I used a generic 1:6 scale wicker chair for the seat to recall the wicker seats used in very early wheelchairs \/ bath chairs \/ invalid chairs. I have no manufacturer for the chair, but they’re all over Ebay for cheap, usually in white or light tan. I chose a brownish chair to blend with the dark frame. I hacked off the legs and secured it onto the wheel base with [of course] HOT GLUE!!!<\/p>\n

I added a brake pedal to the footplate from the Hot Toys Sweeney Todd barber chair. A few years ago, I bought the chair just so I could take it apart and make something steampunkish with it, but I never finished. The chair moved on to a friend, but I kept some of the smaller gears and pieces for purposes such as this.<\/p>\n

The joybox is an eraser shaped like a pencil sharpener manufactured by Iwako. I removed the hard plastic crank, which was embedded in the blue section, and drove a ball-headed sewing pin into the pink part for a joystick. I attached it to the seat with extremely high-tech steel wire.<\/p>\n

The white thing on the back is a lightbulb from a full-spectrum LED light. The glass ampules with corks come from the miscellaneous accessories aisle in Michaels. I trimmed more ball-headed pins and rammed them into each cork, hoping to suggest vacuum tubes. <\/p>\n

The flying clock is another miscellaneous accessory from Michaels. It came as a winged circular metal frame, but without anything in it. I scanned a larger clock decoration, reprinted at appropriate size, and pasted it in. I glued a piece of metal on the lightbulb tubes, then magnetized the flying clock there with a neodymium magnet.<\/p>\n

After adding all these parts, I thought that I had finished the chair. However, the relatively hefty lightbulb on the back of a lightweight frame topped with a lightweight chair made the whole thing top heavy. I needed something heavy and solid under the seat to balance it out, and it would be great if it looked like an engine. Fortunately I recently upgraded my 1:6 scale sewing machine from a cast iron pencil sharpener to a modern Mattel Barbie wind-up, so I glued the pencil sharpener upside-down under the seat. It even goes with the brassy color scheme.<\/p>\n

As you can see, this chair works well with Barbies [blue-haired person] and action figures [Bill in the Chococat dress]!<\/p>\n

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