Ghostbusters Proton Pack from a newbie

[Donston]

Hey everyone! Ive been lurking around for a while now and I FINALLY have something I am proud to share on here. This is my 3rd attempt at a Ghostbusters Proton Pack. The first was made with a flate piece of wood and a Pickle bucket with a few bits and bobs glued on. Number 2 was a bit better but looked kind of "melted" because I TRIED to sculpt the parts with BONDO (Came out kind of rough... now HERE is my baby

Proton Pack Build - YouTube


I have a comparisson pic of my 2nd pack and 3rd just to give an idea of my progression.... I am actually thinking of making 3 more packs. 1: original like this one, 2: the video game style, and 3: a custom pack of my own design..... Thinking for the first 2 of those I might try making 1 body and trying my hand at mold making...just so I can learn how to do it

I have to give credit to Throwing Chicken for the particle thrower kit, Zombie Amuzements for some of the Aluminum parts AND the light kits, and I beleive it has a Crix soundboard in it. The PKE meter and trap are not made by me but are MAtty Collector mass produced ones... (Dont want to take credit for anyone elses work).... The body of the pack was built out of foam board then coated with bondo and smoothed for strength and stability. Then a couple of layers of fiberglass resin just for my piece of mind LOL.

 

[Willswoosh]

Looks great:thumbsup. I saw one where there were red lasers at the end of the gun to simulate the ghost catching. Thought that was a cool effect.

 

[Donston]

Thank you! Lasers would be AWESOME to get into this thing!

In case anyone would be interested here are some of my build photos....

First coat of fiberglass resin

I hid where the paint bubbled by adding weathering

I may try to find more build pics later if yall want em', but this was a REALLY fun project and Im already working on my next big one (Not to mention making more packs....) but heres a teaser for the project Im working on now....