nickytea
Master Member
Cross-posted here and at GBfans.
Just finished my "budget" Proton Pack for this Halloween:
I hesitate to call this a "budget" pack. We're all on some sort of budget, aren't we? I had set a budget for myself of about $100. I knew this was relative low for a full proton pack and gun, but I wanted to do most of the building myself. This is also an extraordinarily approximate number. I'm sure I went slightly over, and some of the items I did not construct were traded for, and therefore hard to attach an exact number to.
That being said, the pack is mostly (90% +) scratch built by me. The parts I did not construct are the vacuformed cyclotron, the gun grips, and the gun tip/trigger. This doesn't include the obvious greeblies and random resin bits and bobs I was able to trade for, but the majority of the pack is a scratch build.
I used foamcore for the spacer, gearbox and ion arm, and MDF for the power cell, mother board, bumper and gun box. I used a solid block of wood for the gun mount. (should also note that the v hook itself was a 'reject' machined part from one of the GBfans members I was able to make work.)
I think I'm going to enjoy one Halloween "clean" before I weather her up. (And probably begin conversion to a game pack, eventually.)
YouTube - IT IS FINISHED!
And there's the goofy video I took to show my dad (nicksdad) back home. It shows the spring-tip feature I was able to include in the gun. I know, it doesn't retract as far as I'd like, but I ran out of room in the gun box after foolishly deciding to put the battery pack in there.
I should also note that the gun lights are a the dollar-bin two-LED strobe from Target, and the pack lights are the Walgreens string of LED strobes. Not completely accurate, but can't be beat for the price. All I had to do was solder extension wires for the cylco lights, and install!
Just finished my "budget" Proton Pack for this Halloween:
I hesitate to call this a "budget" pack. We're all on some sort of budget, aren't we? I had set a budget for myself of about $100. I knew this was relative low for a full proton pack and gun, but I wanted to do most of the building myself. This is also an extraordinarily approximate number. I'm sure I went slightly over, and some of the items I did not construct were traded for, and therefore hard to attach an exact number to.
That being said, the pack is mostly (90% +) scratch built by me. The parts I did not construct are the vacuformed cyclotron, the gun grips, and the gun tip/trigger. This doesn't include the obvious greeblies and random resin bits and bobs I was able to trade for, but the majority of the pack is a scratch build.
I used foamcore for the spacer, gearbox and ion arm, and MDF for the power cell, mother board, bumper and gun box. I used a solid block of wood for the gun mount. (should also note that the v hook itself was a 'reject' machined part from one of the GBfans members I was able to make work.)
I think I'm going to enjoy one Halloween "clean" before I weather her up. (And probably begin conversion to a game pack, eventually.)
YouTube - IT IS FINISHED!
And there's the goofy video I took to show my dad (nicksdad) back home. It shows the spring-tip feature I was able to include in the gun. I know, it doesn't retract as far as I'd like, but I ran out of room in the gun box after foolishly deciding to put the battery pack in there.
I should also note that the gun lights are a the dollar-bin two-LED strobe from Target, and the pack lights are the Walgreens string of LED strobes. Not completely accurate, but can't be beat for the price. All I had to do was solder extension wires for the cylco lights, and install!
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