If you seen a few of my posts here abouts you’ll know I’m starting to build my own pack. I’d love to post pics of it and get feedback/suggestions from all you lovely members.
However, I’m very much an armature at this prop building stuff. I’ve never built anything before and I really suck a woodworking and putting stuff together. I’m very much more a painter and penciler than a sculptor.
My question is what is the general “■■■■■■■■” level of fans here? Looking at the pics people have posted the majority of pack are really really well made. So, for an armature such as myself to come here its a little… imposing.
Basically I’ve been a member of various artist sites where amateurs have gone one to get comments and suggestion on their work only to be very harshly ridiculed and eventually laughed off the forums. I was actually a mod for one of these and ended up banning about half of the members because they were so very harsh to the learners.
Basically, I would like to know if that goes on here. I admit that I’m not the best builder but abuse as to my lack of skill is not why I’m here. OK, my pack may not be anywhere near as good as the majority on here, for example the “home made” cyclotron rim doesn?t exactly follow the contours of the motherboard.
So yeah, do you have to be outstanding to be respected here are all skill levels accepted?
Sorry if this seems like a silly question, I’m just sick of so many forums having abuse flying everywhere, but from what I’ve seen it looks as if these forums are fine.
Well, I’m quite new here myself, but I gotta say, from what I’ve seen, not a single negative thing has been uttered by anyone. Everyone here semes greatly supportive of each other, and any advice or criticisim has been presented in a positive light. Really, I was expecting the worst as well, I know my work is not on the same level as many of the people here, and was expecting to get an ear full on every little detail, this isn’t correct, that’s not right, and so on, but it was really the exact opposite. The thing is, I think, the big reason so many of these prop builders are so supportive is because not long ago they were just like us, not quite sure what they were doing, playing around with stuff in their garages, doing the whole trial and error thing. And I would imagine that if someone were to shoot down their work then, they would not have continued in their work, and thus such little communities would have never poped up on the net. I know my work is not on the same par as theirs, but the confidence they have given me has encuraged me to try harder.
Thats a good point. Yes, there is no negative vibes here at all. It’s one of the most supportive sites I’ve seen, but I just thought there might be unseen members…
Anyway, yes, I think I will start putting up my stuff, I just hope my poor skills don’t bring out the flames. Lol.
I am fairly new to these forums as well. Though I built my first proton pack (with my dad’s help ) when I was in the third grade. And then became interested again when I was about 19.
Anyway, the real screen accurate packs are awesome and cool to see how close people can get them to the movie… The fun ones are the ones people build from scratch and “invent” their own version of the proton pack. Those are the ones that I think are really cool! Because, as was mentioned in another post, that takes us back to a time when there was no such thing as a homemade screen accurate proton pack… So I say, build away! The important thing is to have fun. We’re all Ghostbusters in the long run.
Everyone who makes props based off of the Ghostbusters franchise, loves to do it. We don’t slam others that are just begining, or decided to make a variation on a prop. I for one am always excited and amazed at what everyone makes whether it is accurate or not. We try to give constructive criticism, if someone asks over there prop. Almost all of us have learned from others in some way to make our next version of a prop better.
So in short there is no slamming here, just good friends trying to help everyone that comes build the best prop that they can.
) when I was in the third grade. And then became interested again when I was about 19.