Here we go again , Update , 03.09.10 DONE !!!!

[MrSpider]

Well it’s that time again,when I throw sanity out the window to complete another scratch built proton pack, why build another ?

… I have no idea, i have a perfectly good vacuform shell sitting in the corner atm, why not start with that you ask ? Well plain and simple, I started this one first, so there : P

Actually mostly because the vacuform will be my video game pack, complete with everything, which will be unveiled at Dragoncon this Sept.

This pack will actually be my work pack for when the Palmcoast Busters have our gigs, and its first outing will be at Megacon in March .So this new pack will mix and match some fun little details from both the GB1 and 2 packs,as well as some RGB elements. what might that mean ?

As for the build itself, i learned a lot from my first build, and so we begin.

First , let’s take a look at the first pack, made from plywood ( not a good idea ) I used mostly resin parts ( not that there is anything wrong with that, they look great ) but if I have a choice of metal over resin, i will go with metal. spacer plates and sync circles are foamboard, any tubes you see are pvc

this will be a ref of sorts so we can compare the old and the new.

now onto what I have of the new, i had originally had most of these parts built, but I needed to still build the EDa and PPD parts ,as well as the cyclotron.

this pack is built from MDF ( 1/4 and 1/2 ), and will be sanded smooth using a belt sander and then coated in mod podge,sanded again and then primed.

Here we have the remaining parts being built and glued ( and my dinner )

Here is a rough assembly of all the parts, the sync still needs to be gutted as well as all the parts a final sanding before mod podging , and all that will take place this weekend.

Questions and comments welcome. Insults will have to be screened first

[hooker]

I always enjoy reading throught the scratch built threads. Keep us posted with the progess. Looking good.

[Not404Error]

Very clean looking so far. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

[Letmebleed75]

I love the orig red power rangers helmet in the backround

[Bob_Wobbaz]

Seriously, all credit to you man, I don’t think I’ll be building another pack for a long long time, it took so long to build and so much money. There’s tiny niggling little inaccuracies with mine but nothing that the average joe or casual fan would notice, so I can understand why you’d want to make another, for me, I’m happy with mine, it looks like a pack, it has lights, it has sounds, I’m happy. I can understand why you’d want to though and I’m sure you’re gonna make a fantastic pack, you’re off to a great start.

Couple of things I noticed yesterday whilst playing the game, the flashing valves of the meson colider, the two that sit on the gear box have a new plate under where the flex from the sync gen goes into the gear box. Its sort’ve like a squashed V that partly covers the red warning lable, the valves rest flat on this giving the weird angle that they’re positioned at. There’s also bungie cords holding the slime tank at the angle it is and the blue lights that run on the gun on the slime blower part run at the same speed as the powercell. Just a few things I noticed, hope this helps

[The_Stiff]

I gotta applaud you, it looks excellent. Did you cook the steak yourself?

The pack looks good too.

[nick-a-tron]

hmmm steak!

Oh and the packs looking great too I look forward to seeing more.

[MrSpider]

lol. yeah I cooked the steak myself, I have New York strips almost down to an exact science

[KCGhostbuster]

Looking good, keep going…

[MrSpider]

All right here we are

You see what I have to work with here ? these tools are older than I am !

Alright ,well here is the work space I had today, good thing the weather held out, ( mostly thought I’m just showing off my new belt sander… sexy huh ? )( you’ll notice all the uncut parts in the background, that is the new trap that goes with this pack, the pieces have since been cut out and will be assembled with pics later this weekend )

alright all right on to the pack,everything on this pack has now been sanded as smooth as a babies bottom, and here we have the sync generator gutted and split into its separate parts to give you an idea on how It was constructed.

More pics to follow on sunday ; )

[KCGhostbuster]

nice!

[ProtonCharger]

where did you get the plans to make your synch gen that way?

[nick-a-tron]

can be just worked out using stefans plans.

Great work spider! Must feel a tad “Tim ‘the tool man’ Taylor” using that belt sander

[MrSpider]

Well her we find ourselves on a very cold, very COLD , COLD… KAAAHN !!! , ok got that out of my system, Sunday morning. Here we find a shot of the organized chaos

moving along, the cyclotron has had the ring holes cut out and sanded smooth

turns out I messed up the angle corner on the spacer so I had to carefully recut and shave small bits off 3 of the sync spacers so it would all line up properly when put together

I have glued the powercell to the EDA and PPD boxes,the gun mount has been glued and the ion arm and gearbox have been sealed with modpodge, next step on the line is to have the synch finished and glued then sealed, same with the rest of the components.

weekend plans are to cut the injector tubes and filler tubes cut and sanded, along with cutting out the n-filter in the cyclotron and prep the hga, then I get to do my fav part : / the fins.

here she stands so far, of course this is the part where my camera died and I switched to my camera phone.

and to answer proton charger, the idea for seperating the spacer in such a way came from an old post on these boards, here is the diagram I follow :

[ProtonCharger]

i think i like those plans, is there any more to them?

[Cous3]

Looking really good, I enjoy these kind of threads with plenty of pics…Hey you did the Trap as well..!!..Excellent work on both of these pieces.

Keith

[MrSpider]

as far as more plans proton charger… none that I know of, just that diagram.

Thanks Cous, yes I am building a trap as well, the trap is going to hang from my power cell ala RGb, it will have opening doors latched with velcro, and it will act as my holder for my cell and wallet and such, so I won’t have to pack “pristine” pack with no weathering,and let it weather by itself, paint will be hammered black, and I will be installing a sound kit and proptronix light kit as well.

[MrSpider]

little update for today: fins added,pretty much all parts cut, all thats left now is final detail sanding , then paint, then I mount… uhh the pack that is.. to the motherboard ; )

[KCGhostbuster]

Very, very pretty.

[ProtonCharger]

absolutely too cool for school.