- June 16th, 2010, 10:31 pm#239238
Hello All,
Hers my first attempt at building a pack. I’ve been lurking and watching multiple build threads learning and taking notes in preparation for mine. I’m not tool or construction savvy whatsoever so I encourage anyone that has good advice during this build to please please please let me know as I’m scared sh*tless I’m going to mess up. So I’m going to make a blanket statement to everyone that’s going to hound me over accuracy. This build is not intended to be a GB1 nor GB2 pack. Its my pack and I decided to take elements from 1 and 2 that I like and put them together to make my own pack. If this build goes well, I def in the future want to build a screen accurate GB1 and GB2 pack. Most of my parts came from Exoray, MMM, and the GBFans shop.
So here we go:
I took my exoray shell and resin parts and gave them a good scrub in soapy water to get all the resin cast that was left off. I then gave it a good wet sanding with 400 grit sandpaper.
I let it sit for 24 hours to let it get good and dry then decided to go ahead and begin painting. I used Rustoleum Automotive Dark Grey primer, and did many many light coats with light wet sanding in between for minor imperfections that i noticed.
The primer process took me close to 7 hours all together. I then left it overnight to dry. The next morning I awoke to a box from clippard and MMM with my booster and filler tubes and other misc stuff I was needing. A shot of the clippard.
I then took out my other resin parts to start prepping them for priming and noticed on the booster and filler tubes, the white resin and pvc pipes weren’t even. Not horrible and would be covered when painted but i decided to go ahead and level out the surface. I took some epoxy putty and molded it over the top, smoothed it out with a wet cloth and left it out to cure.
Here is the epoxy I used:
Very easy to work with
Here is a pic trying to show the uneven surface:
I know my camera sux
Comparison with one epoxied and the other one not:
All of them done:
Now I know they are slightly rounded, but when i go in to sand them to prep them for paint, I'm going to sand down the epoxy so its flat.
I then took my shell and all my resin parts to the bath tub for another good scrub and wet sand. The epoxy actually sanded down very clean on my booster and filler tubes but need to get a lower grit to finish it off. Here is pics of my shell and parts while there drying
Here is a pic trying to show the tubes after sanding
So tomorrow I’m going to go get some wood dowels to epoxy into the booster and filler tubes, and get some screws and bits i need to start drilling out the shell. Will keep you updated. Thanks for looking and I'm looking foreward to the feedback.
Hers my first attempt at building a pack. I’ve been lurking and watching multiple build threads learning and taking notes in preparation for mine. I’m not tool or construction savvy whatsoever so I encourage anyone that has good advice during this build to please please please let me know as I’m scared sh*tless I’m going to mess up. So I’m going to make a blanket statement to everyone that’s going to hound me over accuracy. This build is not intended to be a GB1 nor GB2 pack. Its my pack and I decided to take elements from 1 and 2 that I like and put them together to make my own pack. If this build goes well, I def in the future want to build a screen accurate GB1 and GB2 pack. Most of my parts came from Exoray, MMM, and the GBFans shop.
So here we go:
I took my exoray shell and resin parts and gave them a good scrub in soapy water to get all the resin cast that was left off. I then gave it a good wet sanding with 400 grit sandpaper.
I let it sit for 24 hours to let it get good and dry then decided to go ahead and begin painting. I used Rustoleum Automotive Dark Grey primer, and did many many light coats with light wet sanding in between for minor imperfections that i noticed.
The primer process took me close to 7 hours all together. I then left it overnight to dry. The next morning I awoke to a box from clippard and MMM with my booster and filler tubes and other misc stuff I was needing. A shot of the clippard.
I then took out my other resin parts to start prepping them for priming and noticed on the booster and filler tubes, the white resin and pvc pipes weren’t even. Not horrible and would be covered when painted but i decided to go ahead and level out the surface. I took some epoxy putty and molded it over the top, smoothed it out with a wet cloth and left it out to cure.
Here is the epoxy I used:
Very easy to work with
Here is a pic trying to show the uneven surface:
I know my camera sux
Comparison with one epoxied and the other one not:
All of them done:
Now I know they are slightly rounded, but when i go in to sand them to prep them for paint, I'm going to sand down the epoxy so its flat.
I then took my shell and all my resin parts to the bath tub for another good scrub and wet sand. The epoxy actually sanded down very clean on my booster and filler tubes but need to get a lower grit to finish it off. Here is pics of my shell and parts while there drying
Here is a pic trying to show the tubes after sanding
So tomorrow I’m going to go get some wood dowels to epoxy into the booster and filler tubes, and get some screws and bits i need to start drilling out the shell. Will keep you updated. Thanks for looking and I'm looking foreward to the feedback.
Last edited by Letmebleed75 on July 18th, 2011, 11:58 pm, edited 5 times in total.