to press everything together the deck was made from a composite of marine ply and aluminium with polystyrene in between which in industry is literally called a foam sandwich finally the whole top frame is made from welded aluminium tube the construction for that ended up being a massive task and unfortunately while i was welding it up i accidentally dropped the welding torch on my leg and somehow the blunt tip of the tungsten was apparently hot enough to cut my knee nearly down to the bone the doctor who stitched it up needed to check the ligament wasn't damaged so he asked me to move my leg and then when i did he was like oh good yeah i can see the ligament moving back and forth there so you're fine so that was uh good it made walking difficult for a few days but i was on a timeline so i kept welding until i had the frame done it is NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN am and today has been my sixth NUMBER_TOKEN hour day of cutting and bending and welding and all the frame stuff but it's done so i'm going to get some bed some sleep at in bed yeah after the frame was done i moved on to the all aluminium paneling unfortunately i didn't have the time tools or skill to make the front and back paneling properly curved like it is in the game but i think this dragon scale effect worked pretty well as the next best thing since they were aluminium i really wanted to get the panels anodized to get that bright purple color you can get using that process but unfortunately the only south african anodizer i found who could do large pieces only did gray and amber and although it would be cool having my ghost in amber clad i ended up just spray painting it purple it's not perfect but i'm pretty darn happy with the way it all ended up looking my fifth grader's health would have been so pleased and not just because i liked halo but also because a hovercraft was actually the first big thing i ever built this is my hovercraft that i made of plants from the internet this is why it's called a hovercraft because when that inflates it comes out here and makes it hover by the way it's actually super easy to make this kind of hovercraft if you've got a leaf blower let me explain how while i tell you about this video sponsor here we go step one is to cut a plywood circle with a hole for your blower kiwico offers educational kits like this diy headphones one that help to teach kids creative problem solving and steam principles step two is to cut a bigger circle out of any of these kinds of materials and staple around it with some kind of slack underneath nine subscription lines are offered for different ages and they can ship to more than NUMBER_TOKEN countries step three is to bolt a plastic or plywood disk here in the center and cut holes around that these crates could be an awesome holiday gift for yourself or others that you can build instead of just buying and i can tell you grade NUMBER_TOKEN jt would have loved getting this as a present step four is duct tape the blower in place and enjoy your hovercraft so if you're now keen on kiwico please consider using my link in the description URL_TOKEN built irl to get NUMBER_TOKEN off your first month of any crate so throughout all the testing the ghost performed pretty great a lot of the things i
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