- July 6th, 2012, 12:46 pm#399119
So third time's a charm right? Around two years ago I decided I was going to be a Ghostbuster for Halloween, I stumbled across this site and said man this looks really cool I bet I can do that.... at the time I was unemployeed (i.e. broke) so I started researching pepakura, which lead me to the Halo community and distracted me for a good 6 months from my proton pack. So I eventually took stefan's plans and created 3d files from them and made a pepakura proton pack. well it sucked, it looked low budget, because it was low budget. and since Halloween had come and gone I threw it in a corner and moved on to other projects and school.
Around Feb of this year I was cleaning the garage and started looking at my pep-a- crap pack and said you know now that I'm working I can do it better.... so I salvaged all of my pvc pipes off of it and tossed it in the trash.... I know I should have taken pics of it but I didn't think about it. I knew I was going to start from the ground up so I started fresh with new research and all. This is when I decided to go the Styrene route instead of the wood route... I figured I don't want to have to buy a bunch of wood working tools and lumber for this project... so I ordered some styrene, a new set of xacto blades and using pchrisbosh1's build as reference I set out to discover I can't cut a straight line to save my life.... at least not with an xacto blade.So after starting another craptastic pack, and getting 2 free 4'x8' sheets of styrene from a local print shop I abandoned that project pretty quickly.
I started looking at cnc machines I always thought it would be cool to have one, but never thought I could afford one. anyways I had some extra cash laying around in May thanks to Financial Aid. So I invested in the probotix Fireball V90, which has taken me a while to learn how to use it, so now I'm putting my 3d files to good use. Anyways I wanted to share what I've gotten done so far. everything still needs some touching up but I think its looking good so far.
Here is my power cell
And heres parts of my Gunmount and Booster/EDA box
I'll post more pics later, as I get more put together...
Around Feb of this year I was cleaning the garage and started looking at my pep-a- crap pack and said you know now that I'm working I can do it better.... so I salvaged all of my pvc pipes off of it and tossed it in the trash.... I know I should have taken pics of it but I didn't think about it. I knew I was going to start from the ground up so I started fresh with new research and all. This is when I decided to go the Styrene route instead of the wood route... I figured I don't want to have to buy a bunch of wood working tools and lumber for this project... so I ordered some styrene, a new set of xacto blades and using pchrisbosh1's build as reference I set out to discover I can't cut a straight line to save my life.... at least not with an xacto blade.So after starting another craptastic pack, and getting 2 free 4'x8' sheets of styrene from a local print shop I abandoned that project pretty quickly.
I started looking at cnc machines I always thought it would be cool to have one, but never thought I could afford one. anyways I had some extra cash laying around in May thanks to Financial Aid. So I invested in the probotix Fireball V90, which has taken me a while to learn how to use it, so now I'm putting my 3d files to good use. Anyways I wanted to share what I've gotten done so far. everything still needs some touching up but I think its looking good so far.
Here is my power cell
And heres parts of my Gunmount and Booster/EDA box
I'll post more pics later, as I get more put together...