This pack has long been in the making. It is the typical example of the packs used by the Arizona Ghostbusters. We have several members with years of propmaking and machining experience and they put their efforts and time together to make the masters, molds, and aluminum parts for our packs. With their help I was able to construct my pack.

All parts have been cast in black resin except for the crank knob which was cast in grey resin. Aluminum parts include the gun rings, handle tubes, trigger tip, motherboard, ion knob, ion bar, gun box door, gun track, arrow box door, gun knobs, track disks, and v-hook. Other real parts include the elbows, straights, LED caps, and resistors. Pack lights are from Proptronix. The gun handles and motherboard were covered in black powdercoating. All pack stickers are on weatherproof vinyl. New details found like the 15th costmetic plate were added to the masters before the molds were completed. The shell was broken down to the gearbox, costmetic plating spacer, cyclotron base, cake pan, and the N-filter is removable.

I lost track of how many layers of primer and paint were used. I am not a fan of weathering but the aluminum parts are naturally weathering on their own and I'll leave those alone. The gun was knocked off my pack at a con so I still need to re-adjust a few parts on there back to how they were originally. I have a set of the rub down wand stickers I will eventually put on.

My camera died at the beginning of the build so I only have some bad camera pics till I just got a new camera last week.

Items we did not make or find for ourselves
Resin Banjos - Irricanian
Blue Clippard Hose - AJ
Dale PH-25 Resistor - AJ
GB1 Ribbon Cable - Java

Items still to complete on pack:
Real Clippards
Front Handle Twist with tip extension
Foam Padding along top of motherboard
Proptronix Gun Light Kit
Injector tubes L-Bracket

I do have to make clear we only make parts from our molds for new and active members of our team. We have no current plans to offer or sell parts.

Arrow box


Crank Knob


Aluminum gun box door and track




Gun box




Aluminum heat sink


Gun grips


Gun parts, we later made aluminum machined side knobs to replace the resin ones


Aluminum gun tubes


Resistors and elbows


Various shell parts


Booster tube set up


Gear box work


Cake pan


Spacer


15th cosmetic plate


Cyclotron


Various aluminum parts


Gun track




Bumper


Completed

Woah. Who's plans did you go by?

For actual construction a combination of Stefan's and Venkman's. The information used to create the master's came from info found outside of the normal websites though. Propping industry folks. We've found out there's alot of little things we don't have right but they're things no one would care about or notice. Like some edges are rounded or tapered a bit more that we have. There's alot more aluminum parts that we have. Weld lines in places we don't have and some we have they're really aren't any at all. We may change them whenever we have to make another set of molds but we're happy with what we have now.

very very nice.

Thanks. Like I mentioned in my 1st post, I have my fellow team members to thank for helping me put this together. I did alot of the part prep but they were way more experienced than I was in the actual constructing having built several themselves. I learned alot from them. Since we use ours so much we really had to make them durable. Most parts on here are both glued and screwed on. Events like the charity walks are pretty hard on a pack. Things tend to rattle loose after awhile. I do have a set of the rubdown wand stickers I need to put on still but I had a strange feeling when finishing it something might happen to my wand and I wouldn't want to finalize it. After I rebuild it I'll put those on.

As I always tell people, a pack is like a classic car restoration. You're never really done with it and you're always going to find some new part or new detail you're going to want to add to it but still keep your personal touch on it.