Build a Ghost Busters Ghost Trap! - DIY Prop Shop

hey welcome to DIY prop shop I'm Dustin and I'm taking your suggestions on what props I should try to recreate here at the house using everyday materials so I'm gonna show you some of my tips and tricks and some of my DIY techniques let's get started alright today I'm gonna make the ghost rap from ghostbusters this is a rad prop in the movie they contain a ghost in their streams and then they'll lock it down into this trap I'm actually made one of these in the past along with the proton pack and I've got the whole flight suit with the sweet custom name tag and everything because I'm a huge Ghostbusters fan but you guys have been asking me to show you how to make your own DIY version so that's what we're gonna do so it's essentially just a rectangular box which makes it fairly simple but what I like about this is that this thing is like all about the details so just getting them just right is gonna be really fun so I picked up some stuff from the hardware store and I have a few miscellaneous things here that I think when I use it's way too hot to wear the suit all day so starting with taking this thing I'm gonna start with this box Savior box is you know you get a package in the mail or whatever you might find a box that has sort of a similar shape this is close enough so I think if I just cut it along the top that basically gives us our entire shape that we're gonna start with so I'm just gonna take this box and kind of try to get the overall shape by drawing some lines on there and making some folds and sort of gluing it into place you know I'm not using accurate measurements here I'm just kind of looking at the picture and getting the overall shape so if you have a box that's closer to the right shape then be great like a shoebox maybe but if not you got to shape it kind of course it like I'm doing all right so I'm forming the new top of this so I'm just thinking ahead at where like the doors are gonna be that open up in the middle so I'm just leaving like a little bit of an edge yeah I'll have a nice hole and I'll add the doors and after alright I'm just lining some of these edges with some tape just kind of has a nicer finish to it alright that's the basic shape there's a piece that sticks off the top of one side and off this other side so I'm just gonna make those out of cardboard and glue them on I think I'm gonna just draw this pattern out in one piece so then the whole thing can kind of fold and then I can just attach it that way there just have to hold it in place then we cut the sides right here okay before I attach this a couple things I'm gonna add an extra panel on top of here and a little rectangular hole there's kind of a red light mine's not gonna blink or anything cool like that but if you have something like a clear piece of red plastic or something that you could just cut and put in there that would work I'm gonna try and just use a red marker on a piece of white paper and cut that out and put it in here alright so before I glue this into place I'm gonna go ahead and just paint these two pieces black and then sandwich the red piece in between them alright so I already had a bunch of this stuff but it's $0.99 it's flat black [Music] before I attach it's important to make a big hole in the side of this box so I can glue it on because later on if I try and put a light in here I want to make sure it shines up and hits that red okay just have an idea I think I'm gonna spray the inside of all of this with shiny silver paint that way when we put a light in it will be really reflective on the inside I already have some leftover silver paint but these are usually about 4 bucks all right so I'm gonna build up this little shape that comes off of this side now which is pretty simple and getting tired of cardboard yet [Music] here's a cook trick when you're working with cardboard instead of doing a ton of really precise measurements all over the place you can use the lines that are in here the existing preparation and kind of just use those as basic guidelines since this doesn't all have to be totally exact I'll just count out like one two three four make a mark and just use the existing lines so I just shape that whole thing without making a single measurement all right so now that this is glued on I've got that shape I'm just gonna take a plate of a cardboard and trace it so I know exactly where to cut it and it will just fit right on all right well before I glued this into place I want to put the little light and the little switch on here I don't have actually a red light but I know I have some plastic stuff and like old you know pieces of rubber and things so if you want to find a light to put on there that's cool see if anybody remembers these it's like for holding your laces together I've had this since I was like 12 years old but it's the perfect shape it's not gonna light up but it'll look like a light all right feel a little silver switch I just found this old like allen wrench it probably came with some furniture I'm just gonna poke it through right here yes so we've got a silver switch and I red light okay so I got to paint this black turquoise blue T's in place [Music] looks pretty good so I'm gonna use some small casters those are just little wheels looks like there's four of them along the bottom I have a bunch of these I just ripped off a piece of furniture those are the perfect size now you can save these off of old furniture but you can also just buy a pack of them this was five bucks and it was just these four casters I'm gonna just cut holes and glue them right in [Music] all right so it's time to make the handle I'm gonna make a PVC pipe which is super cheap and easy to work with so I bought a short length of this this is half-inch pipe and this was sixty cents and then I just bought one t-joint which was 35 cents and make sure you get the kind that is the slip knot the screw on kind because we want to just pop it right on here so I'm gonna cut this to the right size cut a hole in the box make sure it goes all the way to the bottom probably so I can just really glue it into place so that the whole thing is really sturdy [Music] all right before you just into place I'm gonna just saw this off right here now the reason I didn't just buy the right angle joint is because it's really rounded I don't think that'd be the right look all right so to attach these into the joint I'm gonna use this PVC glue you could honestly just put some hot glue in there if that's what you have but this stuff is really sturdy so it looks good all right so I want to put caps on the ends here just so it's not Hollow there's a really easy trick for this that I like to do which is just use old plastic and then you can just trace it and then super glue it right on there and then it will just look nice and solid all right so now I'm just gonna make the flaps that open and close out of several pieces of cardboard I'll just add it Bend right into the cardboard and then glue them right up inside they're nice and solid I'm gonna add a little extra strip of tape just to really hold this in place on the inside so this doesn't end up ripping off later all right so that's looking pretty cool I think I'm gonna do a coat of black paint on the whole thing but first need to mask off some of these colorful pieces so I don't paint over those okay to the paint station [Music] all right so that is the black paint so I just got to take the masking tape off and then I'm gonna add on these side panels all right one of these panels on the side looks like kind of a heatsink it's got some ripples in it I don't have anything that really matches that look but there's a cool thing that you can do with cardboard you can actually peel off the top layer and expose it and then you've got some nice ripples and so I think I'm gonna try that and it should look pretty cool all right two side panels oh wait two side panels and a back panel now I'm gonna spray-paint these silver [Music] all right there are these two little kind of pipes on here I don't know what they are you can do a couple different things there's PVC pipe but that seems a little bit thick you can even just use some old markers and just kind of cut the ends off and glue those on I have this tube leftover from when I built the Terminator arm and it's called PEX tubing it's half-inch when I bought this new it was $2.00 so I'm just gonna cut pieces so once again now you have this red paint here's probably four dollars [Music] all right now I'm gonna find a bunch of random knobs or knob like things that I can kind of attach on here this is actually an old I think it was a cat from a perfume bottle I saw it in the trash and couldn't let it go so just gonna glue it on all right I have a silver sharpie and you can just get these at like an office supply store and I'm just gonna draw some little details on here so it looks like the metal alright so there is this really specific shape that goes on this one it's kind of like a little brass heatsink or something I was gonna try and find just some random piece of junk in my junk box that I could just spray-paint kind of gold and blue on here but I'm not finding anything that works so I'm gonna make a custom little thing for this using popsicle sticks and I'm just gonna stagger them and kind of cut them in half and just sort of make the shape totally custom okay most randomly specific piece of anything I've ever made on the show alright so by now you can probably guess where I got this paint and you can probably guess how much it cost [Music] all right there's a couple custom like labels on here you can make them really easily just in Photoshop or a word doc or like a Google Doc or something so that's what I did and I just printed it out here's a cool trick if you want to take something from being regular paper and make it look more like a sticker or like it's laminated I like to just take some clear tape and just laying it across the top of it nice and flat and then cutting it out [Music] sweet alright there's a lot of miscellaneous screws on here so you can use a lot of old screws but just to get a little fancy around here I noticed that these have special screws which are called socket cap screws these I can only find in packs of two and they were 69 cents a pair so I bought a handful of them sometimes they do sell these in black I could only find these silver ones but here's a good trick is just line them up on something and then just hit him with some black spray-paint if you have pointy screws you can probably just screw em right into the cardboard but I'm gonna just use a punch it's just like a sharp sticky thing poke a hole pop it in with some looks heavy-duty now alright I'm with the stripes across the top in yellow you could use some paint but you can pick up a yellow tape - this is yellow masking tape there was $3 and it's actually the perfect width [Music] all right so you can totally just stop here and be done it looks really awesome or you can take it one step further and add a cord that's what I'm gonna do all right so you could use like any old cable or wire that you want on the back of this but I found this which is totally perfect this looks exactly like the movie then this was three dollars for this whole thing and then see these brass fittings I totally don't know how much these costs because I just had a bunch of them probably a dollar or two and they look really awesome and I have this one that actually fits in here I think I'm gonna spray-paint this one silver I'm gonna put a hole all the way through the inside and just like really secure it [Music] looks awesome alright so one last thing that you could do just to really make this fancy is put some LEDs in it I got this little tap light so we could just kind of stick that under the red part and then I found this looks like a whole LED bar just stick it right inside there that way you've got some lights who are you gonna call alright well that is my DIY ghost trap oh I need to wear my suit hold on well okay that's better well I spent about 15 dollars on this whole thing but if you don't already have some of the paint and some of the materials you can still build this whole thing for about twenty-five dollars so that's pretty awesome let me know in the comments what other builds you want to see me try and make and if you build any of these yourself I'd love to see them so be sure to tag them DIY prop shop and maybe at some point I can feature them here on the show and be sure and subscribe to the channel for more awesome content and I will see you guys here next time [Music] I ain't afraid of no ghosts [Music]

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Length: 12min 52sec (772 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 31 2015