- November 1st, 2021, 6:44 am#4958819
Hi everyone!
Just thought I'd share my humble attempt to turn a Hasbro Proton Pack into something a bit more decent for my daughter's Halloween costume.
Just to make sure there's no confusion with the newly announced Haslab Packs - I'm only talking about this one:
My daughter is 10 years old and of slim build, so I thought this one (that has about half the size of the actual prop) would fit her well enough.
First I had to get rid of the extensions on both sides (meant to attach other toy-props):
Luckily they are attached with screws, so taking them off was easy.
After also removing the stickers we get this:
I then drilled some holes to light the cyclotron and made something to resemble the injection tubes on the left:
After priming and some coat of black paint it starts to take shape:
Mounted some red acrylic disks for the cyclotron lights:
Some LEDs for the Power Cell and the Cyclotron and a bit of ribbon cable added. Scaled down the stickers to better match the pack. Made a motherboard of plastic-sheet and mounted everything to the backpart of an old packpack. (I first tried to mount it on an actual ALICE-frame - but as you can imagine that just looked ridiculous...)
(Don't look too close on the N-Filter. My daughter found that part in my Junk-Box and insisted on mounting it just the way it is...)
Although the placement is incorrect, we took special delight in the (working) Power-Switch:
As always I finally ran out of time to add more cables and other stuff, but the girl was happy - so what more to ask for!
Just thought I'd share my humble attempt to turn a Hasbro Proton Pack into something a bit more decent for my daughter's Halloween costume.
Just to make sure there's no confusion with the newly announced Haslab Packs - I'm only talking about this one:
My daughter is 10 years old and of slim build, so I thought this one (that has about half the size of the actual prop) would fit her well enough.
First I had to get rid of the extensions on both sides (meant to attach other toy-props):
Luckily they are attached with screws, so taking them off was easy.
After also removing the stickers we get this:
I then drilled some holes to light the cyclotron and made something to resemble the injection tubes on the left:
After priming and some coat of black paint it starts to take shape:
Mounted some red acrylic disks for the cyclotron lights:
Some LEDs for the Power Cell and the Cyclotron and a bit of ribbon cable added. Scaled down the stickers to better match the pack. Made a motherboard of plastic-sheet and mounted everything to the backpart of an old packpack. (I first tried to mount it on an actual ALICE-frame - but as you can imagine that just looked ridiculous...)
(Don't look too close on the N-Filter. My daughter found that part in my Junk-Box and insisted on mounting it just the way it is...)
Although the placement is incorrect, we took special delight in the (working) Power-Switch:
As always I finally ran out of time to add more cables and other stuff, but the girl was happy - so what more to ask for!
Last edited by Muddler on November 1st, 2021, 6:59 am, edited 1 time in total.
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