Proton Packs • OnEdge’s GB1 Foam Build

New pack version!

Now we’re finally back to the build thread .
The build I was originally working on was going to be a GB2 pack and the seventh version I made, but now that I completed my old pack for Fan Expo thats based off GB2, I think its time for a little change now with this new pack.




This new pack is going to be a GB1 pack build now! I’ve been bouncing on and off on whether or not I should do a GB1 build for a while now, but since I already have a GB2 pack, I don’t want to build the same thing so I thought why not go GB1 . I didn’t want to just build a regular GB1 pack too, I wanted to replicate a pack that I’ve always admired. The OMNI pack!




This was always an interesting pack to me just because of how clean it looks. Its a little funny though because the more I studied this pack, the more I realized theres a quite a few imperfections with it. mburkit’s build was also another source of inspiration for me. My pack won’t be a perfect replica of the OMNI because of the lack of reference, but lets just say it will be a tribute pack to it. I’m also not going to use the hasbro 84 wand this time for this as that will stay with my Fan Expo pack.

With that out of the way, lets get back to the updates. After making my last update on this pack, I’ve done quite a lot, but lets begin on the power cell. I realized I was slightly off on it so I adjusted it and recut/reglued a few parts so now its much better.








I then wanted to do the crank gen. In a previous post, I documented about what I was planning on doing to get the crank gen to look more like the original heroes, I originally started work on the top section and that flew together quick.




I messed up the part where it goes in by an 1/8 of an inch. It was far under 1/8 and close to 1/16 of an inch, but I didn’t mind it too much until later on I also realized I messed up the height of the entire box, so I scrapped it completely.




At that point, I decided to detour a bit and start the gun mount, which again flew together quick and this time, everything was to spec.






I then decided to turn back to the crank gen, focusing on the bottom part, then the top, making sure I didn’t mess up the part where in goes in by an 1/8 of an inch, then the middle, and then the structure of the part was done!












A comparison shot with all the crank gens.




Now it was time to do the EDA, this part wasn’t so bad to build, it was just figuring out how I should build it since I wasn’t sure if I should do it in multiple pieces or just one whole piece like how I did it on my last pack. I ultimately settled for doing it in one whole piece because another lesson learned from my last pack was that there needed to be space inside to make things more accessible such as installing the v hook, electronics, etc.









The taper was an important detail for me that I had to do. I still need to fill it in to make it look solid which will hopefully make it look better.




Theres this super lousy warp that happened on the EDA that some of you have most likely noticed already, in the lighting I took these photos in, its super obvious, whereas in other lighting conditions its not so obvious. Although I already have a bunch of warps in some of my other parts, for some reason this one bugs the hell out of me. I hope I’ll just forget about it considering the heroes themselves had a lot of warpage going on with them too.




Heres all the parts together!






The warps bug me, the lighting that these photos were taken in highlights them even more, but thats to be expected when working with foam. I have to still do a lot of the finer details such as the ribs, vacuum pump, rounding of the parts, filling in the tapers, etc, I’ll do those all when I get the material for the ribs, but I’m still very pleased with what I managed to achieve . Hopefully I can start the sync gen some time and update this thread again, but otherwise thanks for reading everyone!

Statistics: Posted by OnEdge — September 7th, 2024, 1:34 pm

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