I just wanted to thank a bunch of people for helping me with crash build pack. It took me 20 days from start to finish working 4 hours a night. This was my first attempt at a pack and was the most fun I had working on a prop since I did a Jaffa 5 years ago.
The pack and motherboard are from DL4567. This was a great pull that was almost perfect. very little fill work was need. Derek was great getting this to me in a short amount of time despite his busy schedule.
The sound and lights are a Crix setup and a canakit 7W amp with a precision power 3-way 120 speaker. Crix was great and his kit was amazingly clean. I also want to acknowledge some special help from Costa who walked me through wiring a 12V 9800 battery.
The thrower is a Throwing Chicken with a metal handle and rotating thrower that also extends. TC also does great pulls and I loved how clean it was and the drill points really took the guess work out of measuring.
MMM provided labels and ion towers and arm, the PPD, v-hooks, Booster and frame. He was really backed up but got this stuff out to me when he said he would and was the best when it came to answering questions.
AJ Quick as always was a great source for little parts and things that i needed to finish the project. he provided me with all the aluminum parts and brass fittings. His shop is a great source for all in one parts.
Lastly Nick-a-tron who got me a few elusive parts and a belt gizmo and got them here from England quickly.
You guys were all great and made this a really great and easy build. I appreciate all your help.
The pack was painted with references on here and was weathered by working on it roughly with tools and letting scratches come naturally. I also sprinkled it with baby powder and rubbed that in and around to give the paint that faded look in areas.
I really went crazy working on it. I would come home and doing nothing but eat and work on it. As for the twist and pop… I used the tutorial on TC page and used the lever extension with model airplane parts. I’ll get a video of it up after halloween as I want to make some adjustments to it and need to do a few modifications to make it smoother. Right now some wires are kinking it up and i dont want to open it up till after Halloween.
Too bad the pics don’t do the weathering justice. It’s really got that faded look and used paint job. I did 3 layers of silver and only one layer of black so that it would easily scratch.
The Parts are all RC Aircraft parts made by Dubro. The most important is the Dubro Long Steering arm 166 This is what gives you the longest extension of and linkage. The rest of the parts were a basic pusher rod, ball link, and control arm link.
Awesome, thanks for that. I know I keep saying this but when I get the time I really want to develop an extension kit. I think there is potential to get this method to extend much further and faster with a little bit of engineering, if I can just get around to doing it.
