- April 10th, 2013, 8:44 pm#442297
Ok guys, now that my Movie Pack is pretty much done I needed another project. So why not give
a nod to one of my favorite cartoons The Real Ghostbusters. My wife showed some intrest in
being a Ghost buster, so I thought the 3/4 scale made by joeluna33 would be a great pack
for the wife. She is small enough that it would look to scale for her and would not be as heavy
as a full size pack.
So first things first was to get the Shell. Love this shell and the quality is TOP NOTCH!
Here is what I got:
First thing I did was create a motherboard. I used some MDF board that I got at OSH Hardware (about $5).
Using a Sharpie Marker i placed my shell over the MDF and traced out the shell
You can see it traced out nicely here.
Using a Jig saw, I cut along the traced line.
Whoala you have a mother board
Now the Brackets
I used thes Corner braces. I figured since the pack is small these would work.
Drill your holes with a 7/32 drill bit. The holes on the brackets were to big for my method.
You will want to drill 3 more holes where the dimples are. You can see the dimples clearly in the pic above.
Your Bracket should end up looking like this. Here you can see that I drilled three holes.
Now lets trace the bracket on the mother hole and mark the holes.
Drill Holes with the same 7/32 drill bit.
Using 3/16 5mm Pop Rivets I braced them to the motherboard.
Did this in the best spots for me on the rest, you get the idea though. Here are some pics of that progress.
Now using kind123's method of attaching mother boards, I did the same here. Here are some pics of that.
Next up was the, what I like to call the HGA, but who knows. I used some 2inc in lenght and Diamter (i think)
PVC tube and using the left over MDF, traced out some circles and cut them using the Jig saw. Once I did that
I used JB weld, to glue them to the PVC pipe.
Now to what I call the "Booster Tube". Again I used some PVC Pipe that was to scale, sorry guys dont know
what size I used. Then got a Funnel that was the right size. get a 4 pack of 4 sizes for 1.50 at Frieght and Harbor.
Found the best size and fit it through.
Cut the tip off and Hot Glue in place.
Useing some Bondo Filler, clean up the mess. Sand down as necessary.
Now attaching the Tube to the shell. I used 2 U shape brackets and drilled holes in the PRE-DESIGNATED spots
already on the Shell .
This pic was before the funnel tip was cut off. But i used 1/4 nuts in the back to hold them down.
cosmetic
Holes for the Tubing..attaching HGA...
Next I got a L tube and added that to the top part of the Tubing..
using a Rubber gromet in both places to hold it in.
Lights/switches added, Tubing with Clippard barbs, Push button added to the pack
Created my Bumper, added the Shock Mount and used some HOt Glue to Hold the Tubing in place. (Use Vasoline on the tubing when gluing the tube in the hole, this will help the tube to come out once its ready for paint.)
So here is where I am now... You may notice that I have not mentioned the light on the top, as its wrong and realized that this should be a Gauge not a light with a metal peice on the bottom. If you look out our Reference pic of the RGB drawings, it looks like this, but thanks to the experts I was made aware that its a guage... so off to hunting for the right guage.
a nod to one of my favorite cartoons The Real Ghostbusters. My wife showed some intrest in
being a Ghost buster, so I thought the 3/4 scale made by joeluna33 would be a great pack
for the wife. She is small enough that it would look to scale for her and would not be as heavy
as a full size pack.
So first things first was to get the Shell. Love this shell and the quality is TOP NOTCH!
Here is what I got:
First thing I did was create a motherboard. I used some MDF board that I got at OSH Hardware (about $5).
Using a Sharpie Marker i placed my shell over the MDF and traced out the shell
You can see it traced out nicely here.
Using a Jig saw, I cut along the traced line.
Whoala you have a mother board
Now the Brackets
I used thes Corner braces. I figured since the pack is small these would work.
Drill your holes with a 7/32 drill bit. The holes on the brackets were to big for my method.
You will want to drill 3 more holes where the dimples are. You can see the dimples clearly in the pic above.
Your Bracket should end up looking like this. Here you can see that I drilled three holes.
Now lets trace the bracket on the mother hole and mark the holes.
Drill Holes with the same 7/32 drill bit.
Using 3/16 5mm Pop Rivets I braced them to the motherboard.
Did this in the best spots for me on the rest, you get the idea though. Here are some pics of that progress.
Now using kind123's method of attaching mother boards, I did the same here. Here are some pics of that.
Next up was the, what I like to call the HGA, but who knows. I used some 2inc in lenght and Diamter (i think)
PVC tube and using the left over MDF, traced out some circles and cut them using the Jig saw. Once I did that
I used JB weld, to glue them to the PVC pipe.
Now to what I call the "Booster Tube". Again I used some PVC Pipe that was to scale, sorry guys dont know
what size I used. Then got a Funnel that was the right size. get a 4 pack of 4 sizes for 1.50 at Frieght and Harbor.
Found the best size and fit it through.
Cut the tip off and Hot Glue in place.
Useing some Bondo Filler, clean up the mess. Sand down as necessary.
Now attaching the Tube to the shell. I used 2 U shape brackets and drilled holes in the PRE-DESIGNATED spots
already on the Shell .
This pic was before the funnel tip was cut off. But i used 1/4 nuts in the back to hold them down.
cosmetic
Holes for the Tubing..attaching HGA...
Next I got a L tube and added that to the top part of the Tubing..
using a Rubber gromet in both places to hold it in.
Lights/switches added, Tubing with Clippard barbs, Push button added to the pack
Created my Bumper, added the Shock Mount and used some HOt Glue to Hold the Tubing in place. (Use Vasoline on the tubing when gluing the tube in the hole, this will help the tube to come out once its ready for paint.)
So here is where I am now... You may notice that I have not mentioned the light on the top, as its wrong and realized that this should be a Gauge not a light with a metal peice on the bottom. If you look out our Reference pic of the RGB drawings, it looks like this, but thanks to the experts I was made aware that its a guage... so off to hunting for the right guage.
Last edited by mr0072003 on April 13th, 2013, 1:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.