Is your pack just lights with no sound? Did you hook up the lights to activate with the wand?
The modifications to your neutrona wand is top notch! Where’d you get your replacement grips from?
I haven’t added lights to my pack yet (the above photo, as noted, is photoshopped)… so I’m still debating how to do that.
The grips I got in a trade, so not sure of the origin, sorry!
I finally managed to get a light kit!
The holes for the cyclotron were already cut and covered with a red thin plastic sheet (as seen above), but I need to dremel out the window for the power cell lights (and cleaned it up with a file):
I had these plastic shelves in my greeblies pile:
Cut one corner off (with my trusty dremel):
Hot glued it into the corner and used some foam to pack in the motherboard (it ain’t pretty, but it does the trick):
Since the cyclotron holes already had that red film, I could use the clear plastic shelf to strengthen that area and give a “shelf” for the red lights:
Some pill bottles got trimmed down for the next step:
Hot glued into place:
Finished pack!
I realized half-way through this build that I had set the cyclotron lights into a counter-clockwise and after a little research realized that both ways are accurate… so I guess I’ve got a Venkman-inspired pack now!
Thanks for watching… this has been a great build and a childhood dream come true!
awesome pack! where did you decide to attach the switch for the pack lights?
Thanks! The switch is behind/below the PPD (you can see that little glint of silver in the last photo above).
Another little mod to my wand: the plastic painted tip and banjos always annoyed me. I may replace them with genuine metal parts at some point but, in the meantime, I decided to refinish them with my new favorite method: nail polish powder! You can see more on this method here: Mando Armorer Helmet refinished using Nail Polish Powder! | RPF Costume and Prop Maker Community
Here’s the factory finish:
Masking the area:
Sprayed with gloss black:
After silver powder applied:
Did the same thing for the banjo pieces (masked off and spray painted gloss black):
After gold powder applied:
While I was modding this part of the wand, I figured I’d mask off the plastic tube and hit it with some sand paper to give it that striped look of the original:
The sanding effect was quite subtle, but that doesn’t worry me. Also I replaced the red tube with a nicer one:
The metallic effect is hard to photograph, but looks MUCH better in person. You can really see the reflective quality of this powder when the light hits it:
These powders are fantastic, super cheap ($2 would do an entire Mandalorian helmet, for example) and has great application for other resin or 3d printed parts for the proton pack!
That’s an awesome tip on the tip! Thanks gonna try it on mine
Edit// never mind
We made a video showing the application of the gold nail powder mentioned above:
It’s the best thing I’ve found for a real metal look on plastic/resin props, especially for the price!