- June 22nd, 2011, 6:27 pm#329832
I've been trying to start my own build thread for a while but I've been bogged down with work, sales and tornados. So we'll play a little catch up here.
Got the pack in the mail from TillSon. The power was already out so I had to look in awe of this beautiful bigI7 shell with a flash light.
Then, this kind of thing started happening all around us.
Luckily, we the tornado just clipped a massive oak in our yard and we came out with a destroyed fence and not the total disaster you see there.
Anyway, once power was restored I got back to work...
I decided to model my pack off of this photo. I know it's a fairly well know pic but it's kind of special to me. I remember having an old Starlog magazine back in the 80s that had this photo in it. I always dreamed of having a proton pack when I was kid, so it makes sense that I would bring it full circle and use this photo as my primary reference.
I'm using some great techniques I picked up from Libtechnit and Filandrius. Big bolts. BIg strong washers. They aren't all pictured here but some of those SSW (super strong washers) are present too.
I had some left over Apoxie sculpt left and I reinforced the walls of the EDA because they seemed a little thin.
Here's the pack, all ugly and dry fitted with parts from MMM, Nickatron, onlinemetals.com, JPA35, GBShop etc.
Nevermind my nasty ass feet.
Finally, I got to the painting stage. Taking a page out of Filandrius's book, I gave it an undercoat of Krylon Fusion Silver, but with a twist. This is hammered finish paint.
The pic I'm using as a reference really shows the rough, cast iron like finish of the pack and that's what I'm going for. I sprayed all of it with the fusion except for the ion arm, the booster tube, bumper, N-filter, and booster frame as those appear to be smooth. I assume it's because most of these were aluminum.
Again, nasty ass foot.
And here we are, caught up. After waiting a grueling 8 days for the fusion to fully cure, I was finally ready to paint it with the BBQ black paint. The weather was bad today though, so I ended up turning my Kitchen into a Dexter style kill room in order to paint it. COULD NOT WAIT.
Going to start working on the weld between the booster and the Ion arm tonight... stay tuned.
Got the pack in the mail from TillSon. The power was already out so I had to look in awe of this beautiful bigI7 shell with a flash light.
Then, this kind of thing started happening all around us.
Luckily, we the tornado just clipped a massive oak in our yard and we came out with a destroyed fence and not the total disaster you see there.
Anyway, once power was restored I got back to work...
I decided to model my pack off of this photo. I know it's a fairly well know pic but it's kind of special to me. I remember having an old Starlog magazine back in the 80s that had this photo in it. I always dreamed of having a proton pack when I was kid, so it makes sense that I would bring it full circle and use this photo as my primary reference.
I'm using some great techniques I picked up from Libtechnit and Filandrius. Big bolts. BIg strong washers. They aren't all pictured here but some of those SSW (super strong washers) are present too.
I had some left over Apoxie sculpt left and I reinforced the walls of the EDA because they seemed a little thin.
Here's the pack, all ugly and dry fitted with parts from MMM, Nickatron, onlinemetals.com, JPA35, GBShop etc.
Nevermind my nasty ass feet.
Finally, I got to the painting stage. Taking a page out of Filandrius's book, I gave it an undercoat of Krylon Fusion Silver, but with a twist. This is hammered finish paint.
The pic I'm using as a reference really shows the rough, cast iron like finish of the pack and that's what I'm going for. I sprayed all of it with the fusion except for the ion arm, the booster tube, bumper, N-filter, and booster frame as those appear to be smooth. I assume it's because most of these were aluminum.
Again, nasty ass foot.
And here we are, caught up. After waiting a grueling 8 days for the fusion to fully cure, I was finally ready to paint it with the BBQ black paint. The weather was bad today though, so I ended up turning my Kitchen into a Dexter style kill room in order to paint it. COULD NOT WAIT.
Going to start working on the weld between the booster and the Ion arm tonight... stay tuned.
Last edited by parksdesign on August 2nd, 2011, 12:35 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Parks's GB1 "Spengler" pack build // viewtopic.php?f=2&t=26200
View my seller feedback // viewtopic.php?f=32&t=24908&p=307586