Dainbramage546
Well-Known Member
I've been looking around this forum for months and found a lot of helpful information for my first build, an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, so I decided to post a work in progress thread.
This was inspired by Volpin's build. Mr. Krix, if you happen to read this, thank you for the inspiration to tackle this project and for not putting too many details into the process, half the fun is building it, the other half is solving the many problems that come up along the way!
I started this a couple months ago and have been working on it on and off since then.
Right now my roommate and I are in the process of molding and casting the shells so we had solid plastic shells instead of papercraft covered by bondo.
Starting at the beginning, the build started with the front core piece.
A piece of 4" PVC and 3" PVC with the 3" held in with a cut up 3" Coupling.
The indents were made using small piece of basswood and plumbers putty.
There are some more pictures of this on my flickr page.
Next I decided to tackle the big shell. That was my first time using bondo and it ended up getting deformed so I scrapped it and tried the little shell instead.
It was made by covering a papercraft shell with bondo, filled with right stuff foam and bondo on the inside.
After feeling more confident in my bondo abilities I made the big shell again. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the original big shell besides the one below. It was destroyed in the mold making process.
The front shell looks massive in that picture for some reason.
We're finishing up the casting in the next couple days so I'll post more pictures when we're done with that. I'd love to hear feedback on the gun so far!
This was inspired by Volpin's build. Mr. Krix, if you happen to read this, thank you for the inspiration to tackle this project and for not putting too many details into the process, half the fun is building it, the other half is solving the many problems that come up along the way!
I started this a couple months ago and have been working on it on and off since then.
Right now my roommate and I are in the process of molding and casting the shells so we had solid plastic shells instead of papercraft covered by bondo.
Starting at the beginning, the build started with the front core piece.
A piece of 4" PVC and 3" PVC with the 3" held in with a cut up 3" Coupling.
The indents were made using small piece of basswood and plumbers putty.
There are some more pictures of this on my flickr page.
Next I decided to tackle the big shell. That was my first time using bondo and it ended up getting deformed so I scrapped it and tried the little shell instead.
It was made by covering a papercraft shell with bondo, filled with right stuff foam and bondo on the inside.
After feeling more confident in my bondo abilities I made the big shell again. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the original big shell besides the one below. It was destroyed in the mold making process.
The front shell looks massive in that picture for some reason.
We're finishing up the casting in the next couple days so I'll post more pictures when we're done with that. I'd love to hear feedback on the gun so far!
Nice work!
