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enchanted unicorn's Proton Pack
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| | This proton pack is made of 95% cardboard and took me a couple months to build. I was able to cut all the large body parts from one big sheet of corrugated cardboard. The cyclotron is a plastic bucket, i used plenty of film canisters, cardboard tubes, various lids, foam core, masonite, popcicle sticks, etc. I\\\'m most pleased with the alice pack. I made it from scratch using pvc, masonite, and couple of conduit pieces. Saved 30 bucks. The bumper knob is made of a film canister wrapped with wire, painted silver. The pack and the particle thrower has lights, four packs of small aa powered lights from Micheal\\\'s.
A lot of thanks to Norm\\\'s plans! I actually started building the pack from google photo references before I found gbfans.com. I already had the motherboard and the large shapes built, and then found this site and plans. So the pack is actually only about 1/2 inch off in terms of scale. The biggest hurdle was finding the clear tube on the particle thrower. I finally found a package of nerds candy in a plastic test tube on the candy isle at target. The gun hook is made of masonite, sandwiched together.
This was a fun project to build, and I\\\'m kinda sad to see it done. If you have any questions, let me know. I have included plenty info in all of my captions.
Updated: added pics with lights on in the dark |
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If you decide to use more cardboard for your next pack, I suggest getting lithograph cardboard from a local comic book store. It's double bonded and stiff. You can't see the corrugation through the top layers of the board because it's so stiff.