Cyclotron time! Been a Hell of a week and have not had the time to spend on this that I would like but today was pretty open so I finished this up -
Proton Charger had some issues with this part and if he had issues I KNEW I WOULD! To be safe I extended all the tabs on these parts like so -
N-Filter space -
Backed in foil -
LOOKATTHATWILLYA?!?!?!?!
Next up I source some 1/8" Styrene and start the bumper.
I picked up a 4 x 2 sheet for $30 at a place called Regal Plastics. You should see if there is one by you.
Yeah, there are a few places that sell plastics here in Chicago. One even says they have a scrap bin you can buy from (I’ll be calling them first.)
SCORE! A place just down the road from me has a 2’x4’ sheet for $19. I probably won’t get it until next week though…
So I lied! Today I will start on the Trigger Box. ONWARD!!!
Oh, btw gEkX. I plan on getting one of your full kits for this pack. jfyi
Time for the Thrower!
I’m actually going to make five of these and five of the bumpers since the other guys in my group need them and so does my v1 Proton Pack. I LOVED this part of the build! Really well laid out part and a lot of fun!
First, check this -
So simple and easy. LOVED IT!
The only thing I think I will do different on the other four is to use a flat bottom instead of the recessed part.
Love your work. Have to give this a go soon.
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The lines on that thrower look perfect! :nicejobyoudid:
Impressive, very impressive
Thanks! I’m going to be sad when everything is built as I won’t have all this busy work anymore. Might have to just build a spare pack. 
And now all of my crew will have better throwers (since the quicky ones I whipped up in October burn my eyes…)
Next up five bumpers!
you are really going to hate me for not making that trigger box separate in some way when you put the side trigger with green hose in. i just put mine in yesterday and almost screwed everything up.
i think right now would be a good time to take it off, make the sides that they meet a solid side by putting paper over them, and then fiberglassing them as different parts, so when you assemble the thrower, you attach them like you would other thrower kits. it’s something i didnt think too far ahead about when modeling them, which isnt hard to fix if they ARE attached, but much easier if they arent.
Heh, no hate. I can build these things in my sleep now. I will just build one new one for the Pep pack. The ones for the guys are going on the Styrofoam packs we built and I was not going to do a lot of functionality on them. I don’t know how easy it will be to cut them anyway since I super glued the Hell out of the seems 
Seams. Stupid phone…
Just a small update, made the Bumper Center today. Not real pleased with my first effort but since (like the throwers) I am making five bumpers I know I will have a few nice ones to choose from.
More later. I hope to have a finished bumper in a few days.
Just finished the fifth BUMPER CENTER file. This was not really a that hard of a part to make but for some reason each of the five I made has one thing that came out wrong. I have to remind myself that these are forms that will hold resin / fiberglass / bondo and paint and that line for line perfect is not 100% necessarily going to happen (even though I would prefer it. ) plus I am tired of making these… I’m glad there are not six or seven guys in our crew. :roll:
I like this pic since it shows how a shape can pop out of a flat piece just by scoring it with a pen and then folding it. I use a red pen to remind me to fold one way and a black pen to fold the other.
And then the final five centers DONE!
Next week I will work on the other pieces and the bumper sides and hopefully have five finished bumpers to show off. After that I plan on making five bellows using wm6929’s method found here - My Pack build.. - Proton Packs - GBFans.com
My big thought of the day today… Don’t cut off your left thumb while scoring your bumper sides out of styrene.
So five bumpers at a time equals images like this -
Not real pleased with these, the next ones will be better I hope.
Must not cut off left thumb… Must not cut off left thumb… Must not cut off left thumb…
It’s got some issues but WOW is this a cool thing! On our first build I could not really wrap my head around this part. (Which is why we do not have bumpers on our v1 packs)
Another cool thing to see was this. Now if Chicago will warm up to 70 plus degrees I can move on to fiberglass. In the meantime I will finish the other four bumpers and then start on the bellows.
The weather is perfect here in Kansas as well. I’ve been playing with bonding and fiberglass all week. Feels good to see it coming together doesn’t it? :nicejobyoudid:
INDEED! But DUDE… Seriously. You need to post some pictures. You’re killing me.
So they last week has been spent getting our first packs up to snuff (These are the ones I made the extra gun bodies and bumpers for.) one of the things I wanted to do was the Shock Mounts. Using the method that wm6929 used here - My Pack build.. - Proton Packs - GBFans.com
I’ll be making five of these total.
Lots of sanding…
Before and after -
And DONE!
I just wish it was warm enough to paint and distress them. Stupid Chicago winter… :-x