bobafett669
Active Hunter
He said he has redone this one within the last month and it is much lighter.
"The outer skin is a double layer of urethane and the inner core is expanding rigid urethane 20 lb. foam. This makes it very strong and very lightweight."
Here is an image he sent of a finished one:
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bobafett669
Active Hunter
This special price is over. The price on the next group will be $245.00 plus $25.00 shipping. The materials cost more than expected and he had to raise the price. If anyone is interested on doing another run at this price please let me know.
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TK1776
Active Hunter
Got my pack today. Man, what a lot of work ahead. Everything needs to be trimed, cut, etc... The back of the pack that goes against the back is nothing more than a huge sheet of thin plastic that isn't cut to size and someone just doodled stuff all over it. I'm talking a good weeks worth of non stop sanding, etc.. just to be able to start doing anything with this. I guess I'm not used to building my own pack from scratch. The inside of the pack just looks like that foam type crap squirted all over it. Weird!
Oh well!
John Barrows, Jr.
TK-1776
Oh well!
John Barrows, Jr.
TK-1776
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TK1776
Active Hunter
Sure, I'll help. I'm not even sure exactly how I'm going to do this. It doesn't look anything like what I thought it would. My other jet pack is made of fiberglass and was designed in a totally different way. Somehow, you and I will figure this whole thing out. 
John Barrows, Jr.
TK-1776
501st NEG
John Barrows, Jr.
TK-1776
501st NEG
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bobafett669
Active Hunter
Got mine on Friday. Here is what I have so far after trimming off the extra and drilling out the top for the rocket. The maker was right that the pack is very light but the rockt is solid and does add some weight to it.
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obi sean kenobi
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post em' here ladies and gents.....
bobafett669
Active Hunter
Here is mine so far:
Still have some weathering to do though. ANyone else from this batch get theirs done?
Still have some weathering to do though. ANyone else from this batch get theirs done?
Darthvader: I have to tell you again..You did a fantastic job with your GA
Here's my GA pack i buildt some time ago..It was a nightmare all the way to build and i believe it was one of GA's early kits. Almost none of the parts matched and the rocket was skewed and uneven. I threw away all the resin details and replaced them with russrep's excellent machined parts. Even though it was hard and frustrating i was pretty happy with the result anyway. The only good thing about this kit was the stickers.
Buildt and primered:
Painted:
Test fit on the costume:
-Mikael
Here's my GA pack i buildt some time ago..It was a nightmare all the way to build and i believe it was one of GA's early kits. Almost none of the parts matched and the rocket was skewed and uneven. I threw away all the resin details and replaced them with russrep's excellent machined parts. Even though it was hard and frustrating i was pretty happy with the result anyway. The only good thing about this kit was the stickers.
Buildt and primered:
Painted:
Test fit on the costume:
-Mikael
Outstanding work, guys.
These packs should take you no more than about 20 minutes of trimming.
I can take one of these kits and have all the parts trimmed, puttied, sanded, primered and ready for assembly in about 2 hours.
to the guy who wrote:
Got my pack today. Man, what a lot of work ahead. Everything needs to be trimed, cut, etc... The back of the pack that goes against the back is nothing more than a huge sheet of thin plastic that isn't cut to size and someone just doodled stuff all over it. I'm talking a good weeks worth of non stop sanding, etc.. just to be able to start doing anything with this....
If you have a belt sander and a dremel with a cutoff wheel you'll it shouldn't take you more than about 10 minutes to sand most of the excess away, and then another 30 minutes of dremel work to fine-tune and an hollow out the rocket area.
This is a "KIT". Kits don't come trimmed and sanded. What you get is the raw parts i.e.
With the motivation the trimming and assembly takes about 3 hours. THe enclosure another hour or so, and then you can take as much time as you'd like with the paintjob.
Here's my samples of the current kit buildup. I took a raw kit on thursday, and had it finished just like this by monday. Just get a dremel and belt sander and set to it.
impervium@aol.com
These packs should take you no more than about 20 minutes of trimming.
I can take one of these kits and have all the parts trimmed, puttied, sanded, primered and ready for assembly in about 2 hours.
to the guy who wrote:
Got my pack today. Man, what a lot of work ahead. Everything needs to be trimed, cut, etc... The back of the pack that goes against the back is nothing more than a huge sheet of thin plastic that isn't cut to size and someone just doodled stuff all over it. I'm talking a good weeks worth of non stop sanding, etc.. just to be able to start doing anything with this....
If you have a belt sander and a dremel with a cutoff wheel you'll it shouldn't take you more than about 10 minutes to sand most of the excess away, and then another 30 minutes of dremel work to fine-tune and an hollow out the rocket area.
This is a "KIT". Kits don't come trimmed and sanded. What you get is the raw parts i.e.
Here's my samples of the current kit buildup. I took a raw kit on thursday, and had it finished just like this by monday. Just get a dremel and belt sander and set to it.
impervium@aol.com
bobafett669
Active Hunter
Here is my progress:
http://tdh.prop-planet.com/viewtopic.php?topic=11315&forum=6
I was the one who organized the group purchase that some people took advantage of. The PVC thing might work but it is so much unnecessary work. I just used a square dowel and used bondo to attach it inside the jet pack frame and screwed the harness attachments to it.
For the guys that used the airwick cones as thrusters, How do you keep them attached to the resin balls? I have already broken them off 4 times and I have only only the suit once. I used the superglue gell.
I had to get my decals from another member on the boards as they did not come with them.
http://tdh.prop-planet.com/viewtopic.php?topic=11315&forum=6
I was the one who organized the group purchase that some people took advantage of. The PVC thing might work but it is so much unnecessary work. I just used a square dowel and used bondo to attach it inside the jet pack frame and screwed the harness attachments to it.
For the guys that used the airwick cones as thrusters, How do you keep them attached to the resin balls? I have already broken them off 4 times and I have only only the suit once. I used the superglue gell.
I had to get my decals from another member on the boards as they did not come with them.
