- November 24th, 2018, 2:08 pm#4911017
Happy Holidays to all you fellow builders out there, I hope this thread finds you well and with great things on your bench. I just wanted to take some time to put up a build thread for my Anovos kit that just arrived.
From what I understand, the build video may be surfacing afterall. I don't know when but as I understand it, it's still a go. Until then, I thought I'd document my build of my personal pack kit so without further adieu'...
UNBOXING AND OVERALL KIT ASSESSMENT
It comes in a good sized box. Mine was nice and sturdy.
It was packed in there pretty tight. Styrofoam on both ends as well as a styrofoam cap and wrapped up like a mummy. When you get it out of the plastic, you get this....
The bumper is lightly attached and you can see the peg the ion arm sits on.
The rest of the kit is stuffed inside the shell like Tetris. It's pretty cool, actually.
Here she is emptied out. The L-brackets are fiberglassed in, which is nice for strength but the shell is pretty thick and meaty. Cutting out the power cell will be a bitch. Dremel up.
Here's the kit all laid out. All of the major parts slot-n-peg in so there's no guesswork. Jose and I talked about a kit like this back when we first started building on the old ASAP boards. NO PARTS BROKEN.
However, there was one casualty....the decal sheet was savaged.
Looks like she'll spend some time flattening out under a big, heavy, book and perhaps a Maine Coon.
Here's a closer look at some of the kit components. I recommend you drill and tap all the metal pieces. Brass hardware looks solid. Pretty close to what you see on screen. Resistors slot in on either side of the ion arm. So far it looks like everything lines up but I'll know as I get further into the build. More than enough plexi to trim as you need. V-hook is sleek. Elbow replicas are really nice. It doesn't have a real bellows. It's machined but nice. I'd weather it.
It's like a giant Lego Duplo-Blocks version of a proton pack. I kinda love it. Now,....on to....
THE PARTICLE THROWER
Mine arrived gorgeous. I have seen pics and heard horror stories of shattered handle collars, vaporized trigger boxes and cracked trigger tips,....I was fortunate to have not had any of that.
On it's face, the particle thrower portion of the kit, (which is, arguably, not only a prop in itself but vastly more complicated than the pack), is gorgeous.
That being said, there are weak spots where design succeeds but structure stumbles. We'll get into that later.
I am going to switch out several parts on the thrower as I build. I am planning on modding the handle so it swivels,.....I MIGHT do a pop-trigger, I'm using all real hat lights and lenses and Clippards so it'll be a bit of a hybrid thrower. For example, I present you this...
The top thrower is a modified Anovos thrower body and the bottom is the thrower kit as is.
Here's a closer shot of the thrower, (now attached to the "Shatner Pack"). It's an Anovos body, one of my old forward handle assemblies, my run of aluminum knobs, the rear instrument bar, cylinders and trigger box are from the Legacy Pack molds and the lights are from Jupiter Electronics.
That's it for now! More to come lads-n-ladies!
-V-71
From what I understand, the build video may be surfacing afterall. I don't know when but as I understand it, it's still a go. Until then, I thought I'd document my build of my personal pack kit so without further adieu'...
UNBOXING AND OVERALL KIT ASSESSMENT
It comes in a good sized box. Mine was nice and sturdy.
It was packed in there pretty tight. Styrofoam on both ends as well as a styrofoam cap and wrapped up like a mummy. When you get it out of the plastic, you get this....
The bumper is lightly attached and you can see the peg the ion arm sits on.
The rest of the kit is stuffed inside the shell like Tetris. It's pretty cool, actually.
Here she is emptied out. The L-brackets are fiberglassed in, which is nice for strength but the shell is pretty thick and meaty. Cutting out the power cell will be a bitch. Dremel up.
Here's the kit all laid out. All of the major parts slot-n-peg in so there's no guesswork. Jose and I talked about a kit like this back when we first started building on the old ASAP boards. NO PARTS BROKEN.
However, there was one casualty....the decal sheet was savaged.
Looks like she'll spend some time flattening out under a big, heavy, book and perhaps a Maine Coon.
Here's a closer look at some of the kit components. I recommend you drill and tap all the metal pieces. Brass hardware looks solid. Pretty close to what you see on screen. Resistors slot in on either side of the ion arm. So far it looks like everything lines up but I'll know as I get further into the build. More than enough plexi to trim as you need. V-hook is sleek. Elbow replicas are really nice. It doesn't have a real bellows. It's machined but nice. I'd weather it.
It's like a giant Lego Duplo-Blocks version of a proton pack. I kinda love it. Now,....on to....
THE PARTICLE THROWER
Mine arrived gorgeous. I have seen pics and heard horror stories of shattered handle collars, vaporized trigger boxes and cracked trigger tips,....I was fortunate to have not had any of that.
On it's face, the particle thrower portion of the kit, (which is, arguably, not only a prop in itself but vastly more complicated than the pack), is gorgeous.
That being said, there are weak spots where design succeeds but structure stumbles. We'll get into that later.
I am going to switch out several parts on the thrower as I build. I am planning on modding the handle so it swivels,.....I MIGHT do a pop-trigger, I'm using all real hat lights and lenses and Clippards so it'll be a bit of a hybrid thrower. For example, I present you this...
The top thrower is a modified Anovos thrower body and the bottom is the thrower kit as is.
Here's a closer shot of the thrower, (now attached to the "Shatner Pack"). It's an Anovos body, one of my old forward handle assemblies, my run of aluminum knobs, the rear instrument bar, cylinders and trigger box are from the Legacy Pack molds and the lights are from Jupiter Electronics.
That's it for now! More to come lads-n-ladies!
-V-71