All this talk is making me almost feel like trying to make a cardboard proton pack myself.

Still in NYC, are you going to eventually get it back?

Hey guys I started my pack. I am starting with the proton gun. Instead of card board I decided to go with Elmer's foam board. To my surprise it is sturdy as all hell! I will post pics ass soon as I can.

Glad to hear it.

Cardboard or Foam Board is a great material to use on the first pack. It's affordable, light weight, easy to work with, and it's a great way to work towards building one out of a different material. If you take your time, the end result could par that of a pack made of styrine, wood, fiberglass, metal, ductape, etc. (hence, gbuster1a's pack! ) I fak you not, but if you plan ahead, you'll save yourself a lot of headache.

If you can read a tape measure and can convert decimal's to fractions, I'd use Stephan's plans. Secondly, for a starter pack, Norm's work well. Venkman71's are honestly the most understandable.

…of course, if you go the real ghostbuster route, measurements are by eye and what “looks right” while using the movie pack as a reference for size. (Friday is crunch time for at least one of us due to a shift change at work…four 10's on afternoon's with Friday-sunday off!)

case in point, before the shift change, here's where I left off. I still need to splice the gearbox and cylinder together. The only sane way to build that was to do it in two halves.

Yea, ill eventually get the pack back, if im willing to drive 12 hours, but ill get it back eventually, not in time for this halloween though.

Hey gbuster1a what did you use to mount the gun on that one?

Well, basically cardboard. Its kind of hard to explain, but I used a piece about 1.5“ wide and about 5” long, and folded it so that the middle 3" was raised. Its kind of in a square U shape, kind of like a drawer handle, ill try to take some pics to show you what I mean

Was it sturdy? Did you get a chance to get the pics or draw that out?

Drew what it looks like in paint. Its kinda sturdy, just the part on the gun needs to be stronger also. By the way, the part on the gun is just a rectangular piece of cardboard that fits in the gap of that mount.

Man, your cardboard pack sh*tkicked mine. :-)

on the face of cardboard, scotch tape covered with acrylic paint will hide the cardboard grain!

But if you're on a time crunch, the best thing you can do is plan ahead. *shrugs*


And if you have some basic paintbrush knowledge, you can template whatever you need to build!

Once you paint it black, itll look fine im sure about that. Thats a smart idea, using the foam pipe covers as injectors, I should have thought of that, would have made the pack a little lighter. Now that I think of it, you can probably use those pipe covers as a substitute for the 1"PVC pipes, except for the gun that is.