By RacShade23
#5000362
Hey guys! Long time lurker, just made an account to share my work on my Spirit Halloween pack.

I’ve been wanting to build a pack for a long time, and I finally decided to pull the trigger.

Initially I bought it with the intention of doing a simple texture pass, and repaint… but once I got it I couldn’t not tear it apart. My plan now is to get this baby as screen accurate as possible.

I started by cutting out the cyclotron and the bumper. I used a xacto saw blade for all of the removal for extra precision.

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Once I chopped those out, and realized how easy it was, I decided to remove the booster/booster frame.

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Then I started filling the gaps with various widths of styrene. I’m using a plastic cement to weld them in, followed by gap filling with bondo.

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After staring at it for a while I decided that the material behind the injectors had to go, to allow them to hang freely as they do in the original pack. I also decided that the pack needed to have the screen accurate recessed portion under the PPD.

SO I cut that out as well. Also I chopped out the clippard, with the intention of raising that area and attaching a better quality replica.

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After I get these areas cleaned up and rebuilt with styrene, I’ll be cutting out the HGA and replacing it with an actual tube, most likely PVC.

I’ve already began building a replacement booster out of various PVC, a buddy is 3d printing me a cyclotron and bumper. I have a handful of parts on order from Etsy. Including a screen accurate ribbon cable, and resin cast clippards.

I’ll continue to share my progress if this post gets any traction.

I hope my image links work. Like I said this is my first time posting.
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By NeutronStarPilot
#5000407
Always great to see a build thread, though as I'm sure you are aware the images aren't visible!
Though it sounds like you've embarked on quite the ship of Theseus of a build

If you can get to the images to work it would be great to see all the effort you're putting in to this.

Best of luck and enjoy your build!
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