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Hey guys and welcome back I'm Dave AKA The Costume Kid and today we're going
to be making a Hoverboard from Back to the Future 2. So if you don't know
Back to the Future is my favorite movie and I've made both be Back to the Future
Part one and Part two costumes in the past and I thought today we should make a
Hoverboard. So while doing research on how to build
this I saw an awesome video by Dustin McLean for DIY Prop Shop where he made a
Hoverboard I wood and then to get that iconic look of it he not only spray-painted
it pink but he put some templates that he made on the Hoverboard on it
so it looks really really cool and he put a link in the description so I
printed those out and that's what we're using today. So I already have these
printed out and ready to go there are on some photo paper there looking pretty
nice and I'm pretty happy with this. So I scaled this to 90% because you can do
his actual size which is fine and it's a decent size Hoverboard but I'm a kid so
I'm a little bit smaller so I just made it 90%. Now he made his out of wood of
course and he said in the video if you don't have the tool to use wood you can just
use styrofoam that he bought which would be cheaper but I feel cutting of styrofoam
wouldn't really work and it just feel too fragile and stuff so I'm going to
make it out of of course my favorite EVA foam. So I feel I'm just going to cut and
layer this stuff together so I can use multiple sheets wide and then probably
this is a little thin for a hoverboard I'm going to stack it up so we have
double thickness and should be a pretty good hoverboard so I've got a couple
pieces here if I can stick them together that's what actually usually I don't
like the puzzle peices but in this case it's good it'll help us this together
and we're going to glue it to and we can take our nice pages and by
the way there are marks unlike Front A, Front B, Front C, and going on but you
got to put those on the back too because after you cut them off they're not there
anymore so now we can put it like this and actually see how much foam we need
because remember we're using double
alright so now that I've got this basic shape for the hover board I'm going to
set it on top of the same piece of foam that I can make it double a high and
also we won't have to stay in the texture side off because both sides are
going to be smooth alright now that I've got both of these cut out I can glue
together and actually what I'm going to do this I also make sure you flip sides
so that these seams don't line up and there's no weak points. But when I glue them
together I'm going to sandwich a piece of cardboard in there so that when
they're glued together they can't do this as much it'll still be pretty soft
but a little bit stiffer. So I'm just gonna coat each side of this
and then let it dry a couple minutes and get tacky and then we can stick the two together.
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All right so this thing is looking pretty awesome it's fairly stiff now
which is good for a skateboard it's the right size I want to be so uh I'm
pretty happy with this thing unfortunately like any build you can
expect that I made a mistake this time you remember earlier in the video where
I said you're supposed to stick both of the attachment sides together that on
the top and bottom the outside will be smooth well I kind of forget about that
and this bottom is the rough side so you can either sand this but unless you have
an electric sander that's going to take you ten million years instead I'm going
to cover it with just some adhesive thin craft foam so it will end up being a little bit
thicker but whatever.
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Okay now that both sides are perfectly smooth foam we can get to doing the
curve in the front and the lip in the back.
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Ofh! That is a really rough cut so I'm
going to refine that with some sandpaper in the rotary tool. All right so now a
lip on the back what I'm going to do is put the papers on here and then
luckily Dustin marks where the folds will go so I'm going to cut that there
and then I can cut another part at an angle and then it will stick up a little
bit like the real one does. All right so now I know that I'm going to cut it
right there I'm just going to cut that and then over here somewhere because I
have a bit of extra room I can cut it at an angle and as Dustin said I think it's
about 20 degrees. Okay so this is what I cut it at as you can see and now we
can use more contact cement stick it on there and it'll stick up like that and
of course I guess made its angle but I think it's pretty good all right last
step before painting is all these edges here I'm just going to sand them down
making a little smoother and then also using the rotary tool bevel the edges so
they're a little bit more round
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All right this thing is all sanded looking really awesome and now it is
time to paint it so of course I'm a first hit with a coat of Plasti Dip and
then a coat of some pink spray paint
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okay so we are back this thing is nice and painted it's looking really really
awesome I didn't get the full middle of it but that's because the paper is going
to cover it so that's actually what we're going to do now lay down the
sheets of paper. Alright so the papers are set out here they look really really
awesome and now to how we're going to attach that you could use whatever glue
you want to hot glue, super glue, Elmer's glue but hot-glue make it wrinkle, Elmer's glue
could make it wrinkle and super glue I just don't have any but I think our best
option here is using some spray adhesive when you spray it and then it comes to
and you can stick it down so I've got some here some spray adhesive I don't
know when this is from so I don't know if this stuff's going to work or going
to test it out and it doesn't work we just use contact cement. All right I
thought it was fitting that we use our logo scrap from earlier so just going
to flip this over you got our spray adhesive stuff here I don't remember
we're using this so let's test it out okay little foamy I guess so start picking
it up and we use our foam scrap again. Hard to do this with one hand and hold a
camera but stick boom press it down there
Alright this stuff works pretty good stick it on great so I'm all set to use
this for the rest of the build it is flammable so I'm doing it once again in
my garage but uh let's do this.
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Alright so the board is back inside now and we are ready to finish this up with
a few more details that we're going to do mostly out of foam. But for the
magnets on the bottom of the hoverboard I'm going to be using some paper bowls you can
also you some plates. About to start this build, realizing I don't have any plates so uh
I'm heading up to the store now. I'm debating whether to do plastic plates or
paper plates. Plastic things might look a little shinier but I feel like that the
spray paint will actually flake off of it if I do paper plates I think it will
bond a little better and just stick to it more cause it's like cardboard yeah.
Got me some paper plates. And Cinnamon Toast Crunch it's the best. Basically I'm
going to cut the rims off of these make some new rings out of foam for them and
then paint them black with silver on the top.
Okay so while the magnets are drying we're going to work on some of these
other foam details I'm just going to do those bit more 2-millimeter craft foam
is my adhesive and Dustin actually made these other plans to
another shapes so first off two of each of these on to red foam. And the purple
piece I just made out of some EVA foam that I cut the shape and then the
circular parts I sanded down with the rotary tool.
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All right so the final detail on the top is the footplate that he steps on
so I'm going to do that with probably some more EVA foam painted green then
there's a stripe on the top and just a flap so he can attach it I've got just a
few details here to finish up but mostly yea, this thing's done.
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