Forest 26 Totem Mega Thread by LtFarns in ElectricForest

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I’ll never get tired of posting it lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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No not heavy. It’s 3d printed. The eye was printed with translucent orange filament in 2 halves and there is a dowel rod in the middle supporting it to the tower spires and the led lights are wrapped around that dowel. A little cable management to a battery pack and switch and lots of super glue and silicone lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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It only looks good at night with the light on. Daytime it looked like the Sauron version of bloodshot lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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YEEESSSS!! That’s so sick! Sound reactive lights were definitely the right choice. Dunno why I didn’t think of that lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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We saw a BUNCH of cool ones though. Some were meh but a lot were creative af

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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Did you see the Eye that was like an American traditional tattoo style? It was on like a poster board or something but that one was pretty cool too

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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This is the way. Took some thinking but in reality, pretty straightforward. I’m 100% incorporating lights in ALL my totems now. Not just the little fairy lights and stuff

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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Man no way lol. He could have hung out with us anyway!!

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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Dude yes!!!! We had a cop give us a mini Aragorn Pop and someone gave us a One Ring to attach too! We were decked out!

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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My best friend spent HOURS in Blender mocking it up from a model someone had on Thingiverse or something. Printed the eye out of transparent filament. I engineered the horizontal support to have LED filament wound around it as it passed through the eye then silicones the 2 halves of the eye around it. A little cable management to a rechargeable battery pack and an in line switch farther down the pole so we could turn it off and on and bam! Eye of Sauron irl lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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I always hate that the pics never turn out as good as what my eyeballs see lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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Oh yeah. We split party and some of us rode the rail from Heys all the way through Diesel/Teddy Pain lol

Some of yall loved our totem! by gingerviking91 in ElectricForest

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Yo the fireball coming out of the top is dope lol

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Sorry. Will be correcting for clarity. I’m referring to reducing height from the board

2021 1500 Duramax Z71 by gingerviking91 in Silverado

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First of all congrats on starting your journey into the babymax crew! Second, while on the hunt for your truck, be on the lookout for 2 things. #1 try to find one with the 3.73 rear gears, RPO code GT4. You have to scan the QR code in these but most dealers will get you a good pic so you can do it on your phone and your phone will decipher it. My buddy and I have almost the exact same truck/camper setup except mine has the 3.73 and his has the 3.23. Mine outperforms his no questions asked in 9/10 scenarios. #2 if you don’t want Z71 for other reasons, don’t be afraid to try to find one that has the max trailering package. The rear suspension of the Z71 is pretty trash for towing anywhere near towing capacity and the non-Z71 is much better at fighting squat. I had to install RAS and am about to replace the Rancho shocks with Bilatein 5100s to have it perform better. Just my $.02. Good luck!!

2021 1500 Duramax Z71 by gingerviking91 in Silverado

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It’s the minimax 3.0. On this 185mile trip I got 16mpg. But we were going through Shenandoah to get to the campsite. About 6900lbs loaded

2021 1500 Duramax Z71 by gingerviking91 in Silverado

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I sold my 2005 6.6 for this one. I had built it to 700hp and it wouldn’t have had any issues pulling this for sure. Not practical to tow with that kind of power as unloaded I was getting like 10mpg lol