Custom Fallout style PS3 control

[sharpworks]

Not exactly a prop but used a lot of the same building processes to construct it.
Had a spare ps3 control laying about a little while ago, and seeing as i play fallout a lot, I thought I'd customise one of my controls just for the hell of it.

Dismantled the control, gave it a light sand with some fine grit sandpaper, built a rough shape using cardboard to fill with bondo, then used a dremel to sand the handgrip additions to the final shape. Sprayed primer onto it, then several coats of silver. Made a simple stencil out of masking tape to paint the hazard tape down each side. Then lots of dabbing and smudging with a couple acrylic paints to make the rust and dirt effect. Scratched through the layers of paint to add the scrapes and scratches. The metal plating repair piece was just a bid of thick card glued in place. Buttons were decals I got off ebay, Vault-Boy, Nuka-Cola logo, rad gauge and Vault-Tec logo were just printed off my computer and glued on. Then sealed it all with clear spray paint.
...............end product?............I like it!

 

[Godsmulligan]

I once built a Boondock Saints controller with 357 casings for buttons and a rosary cord. This is much cooler. :thumbup:

 

[sharpworks]

cheers.
yeh nice idea, seen the bullet buttons online
got a saints row control in the works

 

[Godsmulligan]

Son of a *****. I just saw those bullet kits online. I did mine on an original xbox controller back when I was going to Halo lan parties. I guess I should of tried to sell em.

 

[sharpworks]

ah damn!

 

[Engelnicht]

That is a wonderful controller! any way you could post some more pictures? I'd like to try to make one myself.

 

[Greenskull]

you should make another and use nuka cola and sunset sarsaparilla bottle caps as buttons.

 

[sharpworks]

only pictures i have of it being made, tho i am currently doing an xbox one in a similar fashion as well as a saints row style ps3 control at the moment, so i'll put together a tutorial as i go

 

[sharpworks]

tempting with the bottle caps, had thought of using nuka cola but wasn't sure how grippy the thumbsticks would be afterwards, unles i used some kind of textured clear coat over the top

 

[Lutso]

This has got the wheels in my head turning.

Nice job, it looks fan-frikkin-tastic.

 

[sharpworks]

cheers mate. got a handful of ps3 and xbox controls in the works that i'm doing in various styles

 

[Godsmulligan]

I keep thinking about this and those bottle caps. Try a matte finish on the caps. It will give them a slightly worn look and increase the friction for your thumbs. It may need the occasional touch up.

 

[clancampbell]

Nice! Now let's see the console!'

Rich

 

[sharpworks]

have been tempted to mod my console to look like old worn metal as well

 

[LyonsHunter]

This looks very intriguing! I tip my hat off to you sir, I plan to do something similar, Only Nuka-cola based. Still, this innovation is simply smashing.