acereplicas
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I love replicas and when I saw ThrowingChicken was selling some of his superbly well done Portal Gun parts kit, I knew I had to have one. The plan was to shoot a fake History Channel Documentary on Portal Technology with different model Portal Guns, but we (my team) decided to not do it.
I have made several Portal Guns and other Portal replicas, however they have always been modeled after Portal 1 and always looked brand new... Needless to say I though I would try something a little different after a paint accident on the shell castings happened.
After playing Portal 2 I felt unsatisfied with the look of the Portal Gun over the course of time from the events in the first game. However long the time period was (no one knows) all the gun had to show for it was a few scratches and dirt marks, while the rest of the Enrichment Center is collapsing? Nah, I didn't buy it. After all, it was found on the ground under some rusty pieces of the former incinerator.
I'm never one for taking progress pictures, because I forget to, but thought I would share what I have.
Some of you will like it, maybe even love it, while some of you will curse my name and shout to the heavens about how I could perform such an atrocity. This is my personal gun, so I really don't care if you dont like it.
The gun isn't finished yet, I need to do the prongs still.
It all starts with a kit.
Then I painted it with Valspar High Gloss White paint.
Then I messed it up by spraying a heavy application of clear coat on it at once.
Yeah it was my fault, rookie mistake.
"What the h*** why not?"
So I just decided to go with it. It is a combo of glossy black, flat brown and Rust-Oleum textured spray.
Maybe a little too much for the front.
Wiring all the LEDs.
I think there are about 10 all togetherwired to a three way switch. No sound in this gun.
Painting on the scratched metal look.
Tried to get all the spots I though would see the most stress after however long the time period was, I was shooting for about 1,000 years.
So far this is where it is at.
Out with the new and in with the old. The newer looking gun is one of the guns I made for the Aperture Science Facebook page.
I have made several Portal Guns and other Portal replicas, however they have always been modeled after Portal 1 and always looked brand new... Needless to say I though I would try something a little different after a paint accident on the shell castings happened.
After playing Portal 2 I felt unsatisfied with the look of the Portal Gun over the course of time from the events in the first game. However long the time period was (no one knows) all the gun had to show for it was a few scratches and dirt marks, while the rest of the Enrichment Center is collapsing? Nah, I didn't buy it. After all, it was found on the ground under some rusty pieces of the former incinerator.
I'm never one for taking progress pictures, because I forget to, but thought I would share what I have.
Some of you will like it, maybe even love it, while some of you will curse my name and shout to the heavens about how I could perform such an atrocity. This is my personal gun, so I really don't care if you dont like it.
The gun isn't finished yet, I need to do the prongs still.
It all starts with a kit.
Then I painted it with Valspar High Gloss White paint.
Then I messed it up by spraying a heavy application of clear coat on it at once.
Yeah it was my fault, rookie mistake.
"What the h*** why not?"
So I just decided to go with it. It is a combo of glossy black, flat brown and Rust-Oleum textured spray.
Maybe a little too much for the front.
Wiring all the LEDs.
I think there are about 10 all togetherwired to a three way switch. No sound in this gun.
Painting on the scratched metal look.
Tried to get all the spots I though would see the most stress after however long the time period was, I was shooting for about 1,000 years.
So far this is where it is at.
Out with the new and in with the old. The newer looking gun is one of the guns I made for the Aperture Science Facebook page.