AVP Backpack from scratch

[VinMan]

Hey Hunters,

I have been Jonesin' for a resin AVP backpack for my suit for sometime but with money tight I decided to bite the bullet and build it from scratch.
Here are the progress shots so far and a sort of chronological order of how the thing is coming together.

First thing I was concerned with and the biggest challenge in my opinion was getting sheet material to conform to the rounded arc of the main body of the backpack.
So I started out with a piece of large electrical conduit made from PVC, (Home Depot or Lowes)

I created the fin portions, heated them by boiling and wrapped them around when I liked the shape I hot glued them on

Next I began cutting out the flat panels out of layeres of Sintra and built them up and assembled them

Then I started to assemble all the pieces I had created and fitting new pieces in as needed

This is the progress to date. I hope to continue to work as much as I can until I knock it out
I'll try and post some more in the coming days.

Thanks for looking and as always observations and comments are always helpful

VinMan

 

[mortenharket]

Great job vin!

 

[thebeastwithin]

yes , thats wut im talkin bout

 

[PredatrHuntr]

Bloody awesome!

 

[mothmonty]

Lack of money is the mother of all creation. That is one great looking backpack.

 

[predator666]

Thats absolutely class!

 

[crawjaw]

Brilliant improvisation and a very clean lined build. Should look even better when painted. Great work.

 

[FZ1]

That's awesome man!

 

[djgs]

hey vin

you are amazing with thats sintra foam, AWESOME job


djgs

 

[Macguyver]

Now that is one of the best scratch-built backpacks I've seen in here to date! GREAT JOB, VIN!

I've been wanting to do something like this for a few years now and seeing this might just be the kick in the ass I need to finally get started on it. Thanks for sharing!

Do you have any patterns that you could post up?

 

[TUSKY]

Ha, the Vin man does it again!
Great looking backpack
Sure wish we had that sintra stuff in NZ, but can't seem to find anybody who knows what the hell i am talking about

I agree with Mac, please post up your patterns/templates
Excellent scratch building man

 

[Uhlakk]

Very creative!

Awesome work, dude

 

[thebigbadwolf]

holy sh#$@ !!!!!!!! wow !

 

[Usurper]

love it.

who says you need clay to make awesome props. looking forward to seeing it completed and painted up, congrats dude.

 

[Tetsuo]

Lookin Awesome! cant wait to see it finnished

 

[VinMan]

Man-o-man, Thanks for all the kudos. You guys are too kind!

I will have to tweek them a little but I will be happy to post the templates up
in my AVP template section very soon.

Carry on fellas and ladies!

VinMan

 

[FZ1]

That is awesome!

 

[DerGrundel]

Looking great!

 

[Ruffkintoy]

Very nice work!

 

[shaka-zulu]

Awesome.