How not to paint a proton pack

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314054

By Daniel Welch - April 2nd, 2011, 4:01 am

- April 2nd, 2011, 4:01 am#314054

Seeing that this same pack has gone up for sale before by PoH, why do they keep posting it? At the very least, why don't they do their damn homework to authenticate these things? Regardless, that pack is perfectly painted for some serious duck hunting.

Call it faith, call it luck, call it karma....

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314065

By Skyknight - April 2nd, 2011, 7:08 am

- April 2nd, 2011, 7:08 am#314065

I wish I had the money to buy this poor thing and repaint it.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314181

By Carpeteria - April 2nd, 2011, 8:39 pm

- April 2nd, 2011, 8:39 pm#314181

I'd suggest the fact that all the labels are upside down should have been a warning to these people, but I teach writing to people for a living, so I know better than to do so.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314216

By Ferrariracerjv7 - April 3rd, 2011, 7:35 am

- April 3rd, 2011, 7:35 am#314216

Vincenzo330 wrote:
Ferrariracerjv7 wrote:Does anyone else think that this pack should be returned to v71 so it can be returned to it's glory and it's rightful owner?
Taking up a collection has actually been discussed. I offered to put in $100 but no one else chimed in so it probably won't happen.

I'd throw in some cash just to bring this back to the beautiful state it should be in.

Heat'em up!

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314352

By Donkey8012 - April 3rd, 2011, 9:34 pm

- April 3rd, 2011, 9:34 pm#314352

The bidding for this thing just went over a grand. You've gotta be kidding me.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314385

By nick-a-tron - April 4th, 2011, 5:42 am

- April 4th, 2011, 5:42 am#314385

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314412

By KagaSakai - April 4th, 2011, 9:30 am

- April 4th, 2011, 9:30 am#314412

That just made my morning, Nick! Thanks!

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314468

By xtrmn8r17 - April 4th, 2011, 5:21 pm

- April 4th, 2011, 5:21 pm#314468

Donkey8012 wrote:The bidding for this thing just went over a grand. You've gotta be kidding me.

wth rly? ugh thats so lame!

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314471

By JoeLuna33 - April 4th, 2011, 6:11 pm

- April 4th, 2011, 6:11 pm#314471

Current bid is $1225.00 with a little over 4 days to go. Amazing.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314481

By cowbybill - April 4th, 2011, 6:51 pm

- April 4th, 2011, 6:51 pm#314481

That's a damn shame

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314502

By Donkey8012 - April 4th, 2011, 9:43 pm

- April 4th, 2011, 9:43 pm#314502

It makes me want to put my pack on there for one of the ignorant suckers that doesn't win this POS.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314527

By gbrob - April 5th, 2011, 12:37 am

- April 5th, 2011, 12:37 am#314527

Oh man.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314529

By XxEctOxX - April 5th, 2011, 1:32 am

- April 5th, 2011, 1:32 am#314529

It would be funny if the person who bought it knew just as much as the person who's selling it, and wore it the same way

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314552

By Phish4dinner - April 5th, 2011, 7:19 am

- April 5th, 2011, 7:19 am#314552

These are the questions that should be asked if you really want to mess with these guys..

Why is gun bent to h*ll?

Why is the N-Filter broken?

Why is the V-Hook in the complete wrong spot??

We know you painted it that way, now WHY??

God I can on all day with this monstrosity lol

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314560

By klooloo - April 5th, 2011, 8:04 am

- April 5th, 2011, 8:04 am#314560

If ignorance is bliss then I'd say the auction winner will be BLISSFULLY HAPPY with his pack.

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#314596

By Tyrael - April 5th, 2011, 11:52 am

- April 5th, 2011, 11:52 am#314596

The Stiff wrote:I was able to find a couple of old theads dating back to 2006 on this pack and auction:

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http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... f=2&t=1410

Exoray says that it was a pack made by Venkman71 that was paired with a real COA from a different pack. Profiles in History was informed that the pack was not screen-used and the auction was pulled.

He also had a screengrab from the Profiles in History auction (an oddly large bmp file, which I've tried to shrink):

Accompanied with a certificate of authenticity from Columbia Studios

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315258

By JoeLuna33 - April 8th, 2011, 10:08 pm

- April 8th, 2011, 10:08 pm#315258

It sold for $1525.00! Amazing.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315276

By Daniel Welch - April 9th, 2011, 3:24 am

- April 9th, 2011, 3:24 am#315276

You think if I put a few tubes, wires, lights, and Clippards into one of my turds I could sell it for $1500? I could be farming a gold mine....

Call it faith, call it luck, call it karma....

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315298

By ProtonCharger - April 9th, 2011, 8:23 am

- April 9th, 2011, 8:23 am#315298

Daniel Welch wrote:You think if I put a few tubes, wires, lights, and Clippards into one of my turds I could sell it for $1500? I could be farming a gold mine....

NO. IT CANT BE BECAUSE OF THIS.

Vincenzo330 wrote:This particular pack is a bigger part of the community than a lot of people would realize.

The short version is:

It was built by Venkman71...

NO....

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315314

By xtrmn8r17 - April 9th, 2011, 10:15 am

- April 9th, 2011, 10:15 am#315314

JoeLuna33 wrote:It sold for $1525.00! Amazing.

its crazy cuz ive seen some real nice ones with lights and sound go for way less than this. Its sad

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315326

By kevinj319 - April 9th, 2011, 12:41 pm

- April 9th, 2011, 12:41 pm#315326

ProtonCharger wrote: NO. IT CANT BE BECAUSE OF THIS.
Vincenzo330 wrote:This particular pack is a bigger part of the community than a lot of people would realize.

The short version is:

It was built by Venkman71...
NO....

I agree with this. One possibility is that the bidder had no idea what they were doing and overpaid. Another is that they knew exactly where that pack came from and the history behind it, and wanted to own a pack that not only was created by V71, but also has the unique distinction of being erroneously featured by PIH.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315330

By cowbybill - April 9th, 2011, 1:23 pm

- April 9th, 2011, 1:23 pm#315330

I hope who ever got it wears it proudly...upside down.

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315423

By Belmont78 - April 10th, 2011, 7:35 am

- April 10th, 2011, 7:35 am#315423

That is a bad weathering job any way you look at it!

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315426

By Phish4dinner - April 10th, 2011, 7:54 am

- April 10th, 2011, 7:54 am#315426

i wouldnt be surprised if the winner is just wants to pop this thing back up on ebay come September.. I refuse to ever believe somebody wanted it for actual use

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315452

By AJ Quick - April 10th, 2011, 11:52 am

- April 10th, 2011, 11:52 am#315452

The winner is actually going to take it to Venkman71 and have it fixed up.. and then keep it.

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315462

By Ferrariracerjv7 - April 10th, 2011, 1:21 pm

- April 10th, 2011, 1:21 pm#315462

AJ Quick wrote:The winner is actually going to take it to Venkman71 and have it fixed up.. and then keep it.

Wow...I hope there will be pictures of the process and finished product.

Heat'em up!

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315467

By nick-a-tron - April 10th, 2011, 2:24 pm

- April 10th, 2011, 2:24 pm#315467

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#315469

By cowbybill - April 10th, 2011, 2:32 pm

- April 10th, 2011, 2:32 pm#315469

Nice to hear that this pack will be restored to it's former glory

Re: How not to paint a proton pack#316100

By venkman71 - April 13th, 2011, 12:01 am

- April 13th, 2011, 12:01 am#316100

Hulk Angry.

Every time I think about this, I get angry,...

Readers digest version,.....

This pack's pedigree is also tied up with Ken Huegel's famous screen-used pack that went missing several years back thanks to the incompetence of the skycaps at LAX and the corruption/ineptitude of the Romanian airport authorities.

RIP GB2 Hero,....we hardly knew ye'.

But I digress,.....

I will not relate the entire ordeal again here but just so you have a point of reference,.....once Ken FLEW ALL THE WAY FROM ROMANIA to do the deal, with the seller, this deplorable shit-heel of a swindler tried to back out of the deal.
The guy hemmed and hawed, waffled and wrung his hands in a tableau I'm sure he'd played out a thousand times before and as I watched the whole thing degenerate before my eyes I couldn't help but hear Lando Calrissian's voice in my head saying, "This deal's getting worse all the time."

FINALLY,.....the guy says something to the effect of, "Okay, I'll let it go, but I want one of his, (pointing at me), replicas in it's place."

I didn't think about it at the time but now I should have seen it. I didn't think about it too much cause I wanted to help Ken get his pack and get the f**k out of there. But it DID occur to me,...If he liked the pack so freakin' much, why let it go? Why settle for a replica when you HAVE a screen used,.....I'll tell ya why,....

Because after jacking up the price, which was bad enough, he wanted to use MY replica and KEN'S C.O.A. (certificate of Authenticity for those who may not know), which had not yet arrived from Sony and shit-heel promised to mail to him.

C.O.A. never arrived, (surprise, surprise), and several months after I delivered the pack, it showed up in the PIH auction and my heart sank.

I know my work. I also knew every inaccuracy on the thing. I left them on purpose because there was no way I was giving this guy a cherry pack. He'd never know so who cares? I wasn't keen to make it too nice but a deal's a deal and I gave my word.

Here's proof,.....this was a photo I took of the pack the day before I delivered it to the swindler,....

More,.....

Larger elbows, bigger tubing, HUGE attenuator rod on the ion arm, I mean,....come on?

The second I saw it in the PIH catalog I knew,.....I went down and identified it. I thought the poor guy was gonna have a stroke. He was like,...."the catalogs have already gone out!"

The guy who's name the pack was under was NOT the guy who sold Ken the screen pack,....but he was an associate. Turns out, as they told me, the guy who sold Ken his screen pack had been BANNED from PIH for selling bogus merchandise in the past.

So he had his buddy put it up to circumvent the system. I was told the guy was charged 10% of the reserve, ($25K), as a penalty and booted from ever auctioning anything with PIH again.

I had to walk out of there and leave the pack. It was like finding one of your children in an orphanage and having to walk away and leave it again.

I lost track of the pack after that until all the recent events. But as luck would have it, (luck in the form of my dear friend Bryan Fear), he put me in touch with the guy who was going for the pack, a very talented screen writer and a Hell of a nice guy.

I said,....if you win it,....I'll fix it for the love of the game and ship it to you.

He won it,....and on Saturday,.....my prodigal pack returns,.....and while I'm not gonna kill the fatted calf,.....you can be sure I'm firing up the dremel,......right after I bathe it in ACETONE. >:(

And THAT, my firends,....is an amazing story with a very, VERY, happy ending.

And yes I will document the restoration.

Can't wait till Saturday,......I have a few,.......questions for the seller.

Venky

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Re: How not to paint a proton pack#316101

By Vincenzo330 - April 13th, 2011, 12:08 am

- April 13th, 2011, 12:08 am#316101

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why V71 is the Proton Pack Godfather

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