Proton Pack (for the german carnival 2007)

[haybot]

Hey everybody,

After i have followed a few of the projects on this board i decided to do my own Pack. Since Halloween is not that famous over here in Germany, I will do it for the next carinval. For those of you who don’t know what carnival in germany (especially in the area around cologne) is like, have a look

http://www.wdr.de/themen/freizeit/brauchtum/karneval_2004/session/weiberfastnacht/galerie_koeln.jhtml;jsessionid=J4N1IF0WRS1VMCQKYRSUTIQ?seite=19

Drunken and costumed people everywhere on the streets !!!

I started about 6 weeks ago so i have plenty of time until february 2007 even if my major problem in building this pack turns up - the lack of money^^.

But now to the Pack and the pics:

It all started by getting an alice pack which was far easier than i have expected. I got mine from ebay for about 45$ (includes shipping).

I used Stefan’s Plans to build the Pack and sometimes Norms if i didn’t exactly knew how the finished part was supposed to look. The backplate is made from 1cm thick multiplex wood and the other parts are made of both multiplex and plywood. The multiplex parts will be screwed and glued to the backplate to make it more stable when drunken people walk into me(or i’m to drunken to realise that somebody is standing behind me :roll: )

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I have done the lightning by myself and spend less than 30$ for it but its not 100% accurate. Here is a short vid of the lightning i uploaded to youtube (i have changed the direction of the red leds allready ;))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WDjimGRcNI

I could need a little advice on which colour i should use.

[Faceofthejester]

That is amazing Simply outstanding!

[derail]

Dude, that is awesome. Even if the red lights cycle in the different direction, no one will notice, and it’s a little different from every other pack out there 8)

[haybot]



just finished the booster frame i think the pencils wont look that cheap anymore when they are painted.

Can anyone tell me what color the flight suits have in gb2 ? I would have to import a khaki one or take a grey one which i can get from a german shop.

I think i will go for the khaki one but it will probably be more expensive…

[fifth_beatle]

Haybot,

Excellent work there my friend. You’ll be a hit at the carnival. Nice breadboarding work, btw.

~5B

[prototype7]

Excellent work on your pack! You should be uber proud to wear that thing around!

[Ecto96]

Was that a Palm pilot?

[GBFreek83]

very impressive work, SEHR GUT MEINE FRUND! I hope I spelled all that right…either way, kickass man!

-Thiago

[secrecyguy]

The flight suit in the original movie used tan with little bit of grey tint to it. In Ghostbusters 2, same thing but they also added a grey flight suit.

I just did a search and I can not find a grey flight suit so my guess is, they may have dye it grey. I don’t know for sure. Maybe someone else will know for sure.

[haybot]

Well the german Bundeswehr only use grey or olive ones so it will be harder to find one in khaki over here.

@Ecto96: Dell Axim X30 i got all the plans on it since i can’t take my computer down in the basement

[Soren]

this is going to be owesome!

I feel it!

Even if I didn’t spell Awesome right!!

Yeah!

Wunderbar! Der besten Proton Pack in Deutschland!

[aj-quick]

You don’t see many built like that anymore!!

Very good job!

[GVGB2005]

Ich Liebe!

[haybot]


My Neutrona Wand got slimed


The main part of the gun litghtning is finished aswell.

[RoboProp]

Beautiful work haybot!

This type of pack construction is so awesome to see!

Darrin

[haybot]

A short video of the gun lightning in action :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fjDuP-maf_M

[haybot]

I don’t have much time at the moment but i went on with the pack and thats what it looks like right now :






Today i visited a real cyclotron with my physics class and they had so many things lying around i could use for the pack all these connectors, tubing , the ribbon cable… it was really hard not just to grab everything and run away

[Master_Taran]

How large was the cylotron? I hear those things are miles in diameter.

[PeteVenkman_Jedi]

Looking great, keep up the fantastic work. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

[bigjuan2001]

DAMN it looks awesome! Truly great german engineering, lol. Hey here’s a tip for painting, I think Exoray mentioned in old post that lots and lots of sanding sealer will prevent it from looking really grainy after painting.

Pack looks great though, I almost miss working on my pack.