Borderlands - Claptrap and steve the bandit

il1keme

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Hey fellas

Been inactive for a while due to work and projects, but here is my completed wearable Claptrap.

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He is a Foam board cutout, assembled with aluminum L brackets, reinforced cardboard (to keep down the weight) and some timber. Rolling around on a wheelbarrow wheel held on with bent 20mm conduit with saddles onto his timber frame.

I have a sound system placed on his back, with a dissected personal soundtrack t-shirt controller and speaker allowing me to add whatever 20 sound bites for him to say. An LED light for his eye which will soon be upgraded to a color changing light to simulate his mood.

I move him around by having 2 20mm x 3mm steel strips screwed onto his side and fitting into my belt slots to help allow me to balance him while moving. I also entered in a cosplay competition with a recorded backing track and movie which managed to win :D.

It's a claptrap! - YouTube

The steve the bandit cosplay was thrown at the last minute and could of been alot better :(

Thought i'd throw him up for the hell of it, please feel free to throw any feedback positive or negative.
 
HAHA Awesome!! I was just wondering how to do a claptrap the other day. Good skit too... too bad the arm broke.
 
... That's insanely cool. I adore the puppeteering, but the scariest thing for me was seeing John Robertson MCing. Haha! Is there a cosplay thing in Aus he doesn't do cool stuff at? Used to MC at a tiny little con I attended years back.
Not to eclipse the build, it's fab! Just made me do a triple take. heh!

Good work, man!
 
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