[Ray] Beautiful!! [/Ray]
WHAT? NO SOUND?
I do have sound. I didn’t have it switched on because it was 1:30 am when I finished it up and didn’t want to wake the whole house with the roars of my proton pack 
I’ll probably do a nice video then, doing a full demo of my pack, just for ■■■■■ and giggles.
So you have to pull back the lever to both release, and arm the tube, right?
Yeah, you can’t just push the clear tube back in. You have to pull the green lever, push the clear tube in, then let the lever go to re-arm it.
Looks awesome, Matt!! Good job!
Awesome! So in the next vid, show us u resetting it too 
I have a “feeling” I’m getting a Sony HD camcorder for Christmas this year, so the next video will be higher quality and I’ll borrow my mom’s tripod as well. I’m going to do a full demo of my pack, with lights and sound, twisting barrels and extending tips! And I’ll show myself resetting it too. It’s just tough to do when your one hand is holding the camera.
it is really looking good, how about posting a parts list for everyone once you are done? Im sure we would all like to have this method cataloged.
Yeah, I’ll probably write up a tutorial like I did for the replica props sound set-up. It will be a list of parts and the basic idea of how to do it. Everyone’s gun is different so people are going to have to figure out some of it for themselves.
BINGO! YATZEE!!!
Nice work Matt…
for a Philly guy.
Chevy
That’s an awesome setup. How about a way to extend the tip by twisting the front handle like it is portrayed in the first movie?
GB Jer
GB Jer,
Watch that scene carefully again. While he does twist the handle, it’s all just for show; kind of like he’s cocking a gun. While he twists it, keep your eye on the trigger lever itself, as he is releasing the lever at the same time.
I have the the screen accurate way. You can see it best as Ray gets off the elevator in the Sedgwick hotel scenes. He steps out, steps to the left then extends the tip via the green lever next to the trigger tip. The actual twisting of the barrel was for the comfort of the actors.
Saying that, I have seen people do it with the twisting barrel as the release as well, and that’s neat to see.
You gotta sound system in that thing? If not, I guess that’s why you were able to fit it in; less wires, huh?
I do have a sound system in the pack. The reason I didn’t have it on during that video is because I filmed it at 1:30 am and didn’t want to wake anyone. I’ll be making a better video soon, with my HD camcorder on a tripod so I can demo the lights, sounds, twisting barrel, and extending mechanism in one video.
Its so odd that twisting would be for “comfort” if its only used during the make’m hard closeup to make it look like a release mechanism. Yet its unnecessary as a release movement if there’s lever to serve that purpose.. is it possible “mechanism” ideas might have migrated from one to another, or in conjunction, throughout the production of the movie?
Also, during that scene, are all 4 guns in frame, and if so, do they all twist? I can’t remember exactly. And I don’t have bluray.
Only the one gun twists, and it’s all for effect. Like I said, it’s for the “cocking of the gun” effect, just like the sound effect that accompanies it.
i agree in that scene, dan twisted his barrel for effect, but i feel it has nothing to do with the actual release.
also, i agree with it rotating for the actor’s comfort. In the scene where venkman says “maybe now you’ll never slime a guy with a positron collider”, watch his thrower, he’s turning the handle very slightly there, once again for effect it would seem..
Okay, here’s a video of my pack. It shows the lights, sounds, the twisting front grip, and the extending clear tip mechanism (along with resetting the tip).
Enjoy.