And, well, I have absolutely no idea where to even start. I admit I WAS going to spend the money from that Bob’s prop house or whatever for a partly built pack, but then I read about them on this site, and more or less ruled that out.
I was already on the side of simply using a neutrino wand from Mattel, as I dunno how good it’ll look either way, and giving that I’m a total novice currently I care that it works.
But, where to look for base components would be a huge help, especially on where to get a base to start from.
In all honesty about the most complex prop deal I did was, well, this:
Disassemble,d painted, reassembled, and when I finished it no longer fired, so yeah, my confidence isn’t too high, and I don’t have near enough to just purchase a pack that has what I want, but I do want to put together a Ghostbusters outfit and the proton pack is, well, borderline essential.
Anyway, knowing where to get at least the base for it would be a huge help, since from what I hear quite a few people make the shells.
Well I’m not looking to have it done right away, for me that’s a bit unrealistic, especially since it’s winter here, and thanks for my family’s shed being borderline worthless I have no place to start work on anything right now.
Ok, looking at the shop thi seems like a good jumping off point, at least for the pack frame and the shell, and the pack frame, if I don’t get it here I can get it elsewhere.
well I feel like a moron for not looking at the shop properly.
Plus this is a far better deal than that Bob’s place, where they charge you double just for the shell.
And I have no idea they had the motherboard too, I was seriously worrying about having to cut one out myself.
There is also a shell that Nickatron makes thats a GB2 Semi hero. It has a few parts molded in (booster tube and ion arm) but given his shell is in the UK you’d get raped for postage.
You would be correct but to have a fully functional pack, your kit wouldn’t interface with of the known and used kits for electronics.
There are a few people who are using them to get buy. Hell I even have two matty wands in the basement. I wanted my pack to be fully controllable (lights and sound) from the gun.
Bob re ran speaker leads to his big ass nasty pack but the gun doesn’t control his pack lights. See what im getting at?
Would make a good temporary solution then as, thinking about it ,being able to switch everything on using the wand would actually be ideal, especially since, and I may be foolish here, it’d be nice to eventually do some of the upgrade from the game, like the pop up thing got the meson collider or the reservoir tube the the PDS.
That’s why for me the Matty wand might be temporary, looking at the wand electronics that might not even be difficult, even if I can’t get that sweet barrel retraction
That’s the spirit! When I first researched building a pack over a decade ago, it was a completely different scene. These days, thanks to all the innovators and information sharing, it’s closer to building a giant Lego set than ever before. You’ll still undoubtedly run into an issue here or there but I’d be shocked if you couldn’t get past any issues with the support of people here.
After attempting to build a pack for a very long time I decided to have one built for me. My pack was and is perfect. I love it in every way. It far exceeded my expectations and I proudly show pictures of it to every one I can. But you know what? I want another one. And so will you. Even if you build a perfect proton pack you’ll want a second one. A third one. A fourth one. Folks warned me that one wouldn’t be enough and I thought they were crazy but it’s true. Once you start down this road there is no going back. You’ll be 70 years-old building packs in your garage.
