Hi everyone! With so many people making their own packs and some great tutorials and awesome people making and selling some great parts, I’ve decided to give it a go. Originally I had contacted Vincenzo to have one of his phenomenal packs made for me sometime next year, and I may need to go that way if I royally expletive deleted this one up. I hope he’s not mad.
I went to Army Surplus store just to see if they would have one, and low and behold, they had an original Alice LC-1 frame attached to a bag. I asked if I could buy it and he said “don’t you want this brand new one with wood land camo straps?” I told him I would prefer the old one he had. He asked me again just to make sure and I said if its not much trouble to remove it from the bag, I would like the old one. In the end, I think he realized he could either make money today or not.
So here is my new (old) LC-1.
The flash makes the straps look like a weird colour.
Now to start assembling a list of parts I’ll need and prices and sellers. I’m excited and a little afraid of what I’m getting myself into but I think if I can pull this off, it will be awesome!
I got some parts in from the GBFans shop. Light kits, connecting cables, dry rub stickers. Missed out on the sound board this time. I have put in orders for the GBFans shell and mother board, GB1 Ribbon cable when it was in stock, some various bits and pieces. The deluxe aluminium parts from Vincenzo330, Bumper and Booster Frame from Nick-A-Tron, and bellows and frame mounting hardware from MMM. This should be enough to get me started anyway. I’m off work for 12 days in November (had to use my holiday time or I would loose it) so I should be keeping pretty busy. I know there is lots more to order still but I’ll post up a parts list of everything I have once its all it.
Sounds like you’re off to a hell of a start with that component list. Looking forward to your feedback on the gbfans shell, I haven’t seen too many things (good or bad) said about it.
Great find on the LC-1 frame and kidney pad (it even has the turnbuckle!), but sadly the shoulder straps aren’t accurate LC-1. Fortunately, the frame and kidney pad are usually the harder parts to source, so you’re of to a great start!
The LC-1 shoulder straps have a distinct “V” style webbing that connects the straps to the frame and they are also very thin with little padding. The left strap also features a quick release with no button up guard while the right strap has no quick release.
Oh, I see! That makes sense now. I don’t think I’ll loose sleep on that detail. However, if I ever see some of those straps in my travels, I will definitely be picking them up!
Did you already drill the top hole in your frame before the photo or did it come with that hole?
You’ll have to drill the hole yourself. 1/4" is the accurate size. I had no problem drilling and using a Dremel on the shell, but when it came time to drill a small 1/4" hole into a vintage ALICE LC-1 I was a little nervous!
More parts have been ordered and are on the way. Still waiting for my big GBFans order to ship and Vin’s alluminum parts to ship and I will be able to start building! Can’t wait!!
And, because someone happened to point out that my straps were not LC-1 straps… I decided I needed to find the correct ones. They will be here soon. Thanks Kaga Sakai for pointing me in the correct direction!
My GBFans GB1 ribbon cable arrived today. It’s much bigger than I thought it would be, but I have also never seen one live before. Still waiting for my big order to ship out with the shell and various parts. I’m going to need to build a work area in my basement. It’s snowing here already and my garage is not heated. My basement is developed but there is some space I can convert for now. That will be my task for the next couple of days while I wait.
Yeah, good idea to focus on your work area now and get it situated. Having a good spot to work on stuff and the right tools makes all the difference in the world.
A little preview of all the parts that have come in so far. My mail carrier must be starting to wonder. The last few days a lot of packages have come in. Just a couple of photos. I need to make a list of what’s in and from whom so I’ll won’t say anything yet because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings if I miss them trying to go off of memory.
Still more to come in. Waiting for Vin’s aluminum parts to ship out and some parts from Doug. Then I’ll end to really start looking into more gun parts.
Haha! The shock mounts… I saw that the ones from the Gbfans store were all gone and I didn’t want a resin copy, I’m trying to go for as many metal or real parts as possible so I picked up an MMM shock mount first. THEN AJ decides to sell off some of the scratch and dent ones on EBay. I couldn’t let that opportunity pass without getting a couple. I was thinking for future projects too.
It is a little daunting looking at all those bits and pieces. I think it finally hit me last night when I picked up my shell and other parts from the post office. I’ve never been so excited to open up a box! Then it was an oh ■■■■ moment. What have I gotten myself into!
The straps are a little off. I posted in another thread but the stitching on the straps is off. I don’t think it will be an wearability issue, I have big shoulders and a large chest and trying to find a suit jacket that isn’t custom isn’t fun, and my current straps are adjusted as big as they can to fit. I’ll try it later when I can mount the shell to the mobo and then to the Alice frame.
Here is what I’m talking about with the straps.
The colour is slightly different and I thought the seller sent a miss matched set but the numbers in the inside look like they are correct. I guess just a bad day on the sewing machine.
