Ideation of the Crate / Trunk Side Ends

Here different patterns of potential kit bashing to provide a technological feel, were tried, starting with the ends of the crate to work out the best feel.

The advantage here was that there was a pre-built alcove. This made the kit bashing much more realistic as well as protected it from impacts.

More parts needed to be moulded and cast as well as using readymade parts.

The ready-made parts often needed stuffing with foam as lacking surface area for gluing.

The rough scaly hardening of the excess glue when reacting with activator catalyst spray looked like it would give a more realistic destressed, rusty and worn look.

I wanted to include light up buttons and possibly other lighting. Consistent failures with LED strips having:

• Auto power shut offs after a few minutes.
• Ceasing to function due to bending damage
• Problems sticking the LED Strips into place and the problems of all the excess LEDD strip and where to place it.
• Unreliable control systems.
• Thus, this the use of LED strips was abandoned.
• Thus, this the use of LED strips was abandoned.
  
• Components where superglued onto a 5mm Plastazote foam plate so resistant to kocks and to aid gluing.

I also experimented with foam backplate designs, starting with the card plates here with concentric patterns to help find whichfitted best.

Adding The Rivets

As elsewhere, I drilled through components then inserted rivets the mechanically connect components thought he body of the trunk to prevent them being knocked off on impact. This was in addition to a 5mm Plastazote foam sandwiched between the component and prop with contact glue to add felxibility to the joint.