ThePropBox
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Hello everyone! 
May I introduce myself as Mario, a 26-year old hobby artist located in Austria. I’ve been a reader on this amazing forum for almost 4 years but never took the time to actually register or showcase my stuff here; shame on me!
Over the last eight years I have been quite active in the sector of casemodding but I guess now is the time to try something new
Except for some of my casemods my biggest success so far was a hand carved, wooden replica of the infamous Majora’s Mask from The Legend of Zelda -series I guess most of you can relate to
The amazing response from fans all over the world really surprised me a lot and made me stick to this amazing form of creativity.
I opened a Facebook-page with a worklog dedicated to the mask in 2013 but now I decided to have it renamed to a more general name considering I’m going to make this my main page for my stuff, not just Zelda-related things. You’re more than welcome to check out the worklog if you want!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/PropBox/287740688037646
Deviantart: http://supermariio.deviantart.com
FINISHED:
Compared to the Gravity Gun replica from NECA.
HALF - LIFE 2 - Gravity Gun - LET IT BEGIN!
Let’s get on with the project I actually want to present you here: the Gravity Gun from the Half-Life series. I’ve been a fan of this series since its beginning and considering I love replicas from various games I didn’t get warm with the Gravity Gun replica NECA made a couple of years ago.
The lack of the detail is just… argh :X
So let’s begin. My replica is going to be mostly made from aluminum and acrylics. The parts which are going to end up being metal are the ones which keep the internal structure together and prevent the thing from falling apart. The odd shaped main body on the backside is going to be made from acrylics. I’m not THAT big of a fan of using acrylics when it comes to thing like that but it’s just a nice and comfortable material to work with.
Designing the gun was one of the hardest things I ever came across but I eventually figured out a way to make everything detachable and maintenance-friendly without losing stability.
What would a gun be without fancy lighting?
There will be around 150 LEDs used in this gun, 90 alone for the Xen-crystals. It may sound like overkill right now (which maybe it really is haha) but yeah… love those little lighting buddies
As all of the LEDs are RGB ones and every single of of them eats up 30-40mA there will be a maximum current of 6A(!). Even though I doubt that it will rise that high since not all LEDs are turned on at a specific moment.
Let’s take a look at some pictures you’re most likely waiting to see if you made it until here
Inner barrels...
My good friend Michael offered me to have all the round objects (barrels, caps, etc.) which are needed on the backside of the gun CNC-machined from aluminum.
Considering I was going to create them from MDF and order a bunch of Smooth-On stuff to have them molded and rotocasted… it was a nobrainer to accept his generous offer.
So he spent a lot of his spare time just to hand me over those two babies… THANK YOU MAN!
...and outer barrels!
Those two bad boys will not just reside useless at the back of the gun. They are chosen to hold all the electronics which are needed in order to control all the lighting for the Gravity Gun. Each one of them will contain a custom-designed PCB-shield for the two Arduinos which are going to end up there.
Why two you might ask!
Well, the program which runs the effects for the xen-crystals just barely fits on the internal memory of one of the Arduinos so there is no more space left on one device to handle more.
The structure...
And this is how the thing should be held together on the back. An aluminum pipe is the core element where all other machined parts are mounted on.
This pipe is getting cut at an angle and some 1cm thick PVC-inserts (which are left to be machined) are going to get screwed inside the outer ends of the pipe. This will give me a proper surface to mount the outer barrels
The bigger pipe represents the main barrel of the gun. It kinda feels a little to big to be honest but if I did my math correct and didn't screw up constructing in in AutoCad completely... I should be fine haha.
Here are the PVC parts I need to machine first...
Unfortunately this is all I have for now but there will be a huge update this week as I’m now waiting for all the laser cut parts to be finished.
Fingers crossed I can pick them up before the weekend! Hope you like it so far although it's not much of a first update...
Stay tuned for more!
Mario
May I introduce myself as Mario, a 26-year old hobby artist located in Austria. I’ve been a reader on this amazing forum for almost 4 years but never took the time to actually register or showcase my stuff here; shame on me!
Over the last eight years I have been quite active in the sector of casemodding but I guess now is the time to try something new
Except for some of my casemods my biggest success so far was a hand carved, wooden replica of the infamous Majora’s Mask from The Legend of Zelda -series I guess most of you can relate to
The amazing response from fans all over the world really surprised me a lot and made me stick to this amazing form of creativity.
I opened a Facebook-page with a worklog dedicated to the mask in 2013 but now I decided to have it renamed to a more general name considering I’m going to make this my main page for my stuff, not just Zelda-related things. You’re more than welcome to check out the worklog if you want!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/PropBox/287740688037646
Deviantart: http://supermariio.deviantart.com
FINISHED:
Compared to the Gravity Gun replica from NECA.
HALF - LIFE 2 - Gravity Gun - LET IT BEGIN!
Let’s get on with the project I actually want to present you here: the Gravity Gun from the Half-Life series. I’ve been a fan of this series since its beginning and considering I love replicas from various games I didn’t get warm with the Gravity Gun replica NECA made a couple of years ago.
The lack of the detail is just… argh :X
So let’s begin. My replica is going to be mostly made from aluminum and acrylics. The parts which are going to end up being metal are the ones which keep the internal structure together and prevent the thing from falling apart. The odd shaped main body on the backside is going to be made from acrylics. I’m not THAT big of a fan of using acrylics when it comes to thing like that but it’s just a nice and comfortable material to work with.
Designing the gun was one of the hardest things I ever came across but I eventually figured out a way to make everything detachable and maintenance-friendly without losing stability.
What would a gun be without fancy lighting?
There will be around 150 LEDs used in this gun, 90 alone for the Xen-crystals. It may sound like overkill right now (which maybe it really is haha) but yeah… love those little lighting buddies
As all of the LEDs are RGB ones and every single of of them eats up 30-40mA there will be a maximum current of 6A(!). Even though I doubt that it will rise that high since not all LEDs are turned on at a specific moment.
Let’s take a look at some pictures you’re most likely waiting to see if you made it until here
Inner barrels...
My good friend Michael offered me to have all the round objects (barrels, caps, etc.) which are needed on the backside of the gun CNC-machined from aluminum.
Considering I was going to create them from MDF and order a bunch of Smooth-On stuff to have them molded and rotocasted… it was a nobrainer to accept his generous offer.
So he spent a lot of his spare time just to hand me over those two babies… THANK YOU MAN!
...and outer barrels!
Those two bad boys will not just reside useless at the back of the gun. They are chosen to hold all the electronics which are needed in order to control all the lighting for the Gravity Gun. Each one of them will contain a custom-designed PCB-shield for the two Arduinos which are going to end up there.
Why two you might ask!
Well, the program which runs the effects for the xen-crystals just barely fits on the internal memory of one of the Arduinos so there is no more space left on one device to handle more.
The structure...
And this is how the thing should be held together on the back. An aluminum pipe is the core element where all other machined parts are mounted on.
This pipe is getting cut at an angle and some 1cm thick PVC-inserts (which are left to be machined) are going to get screwed inside the outer ends of the pipe. This will give me a proper surface to mount the outer barrels
The bigger pipe represents the main barrel of the gun. It kinda feels a little to big to be honest but if I did my math correct and didn't screw up constructing in in AutoCad completely... I should be fine haha.
Here are the PVC parts I need to machine first...
Unfortunately this is all I have for now but there will be a huge update this week as I’m now waiting for all the laser cut parts to be finished.
Fingers crossed I can pick them up before the weekend! Hope you like it so far although it's not much of a first update...
Stay tuned for more!
Mario
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