Yes! It's Yet Another Portal Gun!
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Here's the finished lil' LED plug for the back shell
Re-bondoing the front shell and any gaps on the mid barrel
Kind of a messy assembly of the vents, but it's passable. Vacuum formed 3 layers of HIPS, 2 with cutouts and one as the vent layer
Also, a project is not truly worthy until it draws blood. Damned scalpels
Anyway, vents primed up and glued into place. It's a bit messy at this stage...I'll figure out something I'm sure
Re-bondoing the front shell and any gaps on the mid barrel
Kind of a messy assembly of the vents, but it's passable. Vacuum formed 3 layers of HIPS, 2 with cutouts and one as the vent layer
Also, a project is not truly worthy until it draws blood. Damned scalpels
Anyway, vents primed up and glued into place. It's a bit messy at this stage...I'll figure out something I'm sure
Archive&Future
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At last, I have a final design for the claw ends; got them laser cut at college. They're essentially 4 layers of 3mm acrylic, and then a couple of layers of HIPS
It all looks better in person I swear :sleep
It all looks better in person I swear :sleep
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Working a little more on the vents and rails
Quick coat of paint to see how it starts to come together. Very very unfinished
Still a way to go, but all the separate electronics have been done, just need assembling into the whole creation
Quick coat of paint to see how it starts to come together. Very very unfinished
Still a way to go, but all the separate electronics have been done, just need assembling into the whole creation
Archive&Future
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Another layer of bondo, more sanding and some TLC and the rails are looking much better. Still need some work on them though
Vents need some raising in the middle, a bit of styrene and bondo should do the trick for that
Vents need some raising in the middle, a bit of styrene and bondo should do the trick for that
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I am loving it so far!
Want to trade Gravity Gun kit parts for some Portalgun kit parts?
Now that sounds like a pretty legit deal to me! :cool
Might genuinely think about that, expect some PMs
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If you guys do end up doing a trade, I command both of you to post pictures of you dual wielding your gravity guns/portal guns. That'd be awesome.
Haha! That would be super cool! At any rate, whatever deal goes through there's still gonna be a lot of time and work to put into each
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These parts are the internal barrel details, nothing new here, just the old 8 radiating fins
And also, because the vacuum formed parts are too short (and actually too wide, but that's something I can't fix) I glued on some styrene parts, and then Milliput'd over them.
Really awful sculpting skills, but I'll clean it up tomorrow once it's dry.
And also, because the vacuum formed parts are too short (and actually too wide, but that's something I can't fix) I glued on some styrene parts, and then Milliput'd over them.
Really awful sculpting skills, but I'll clean it up tomorrow once it's dry.
Waw looking good!!!
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I don't work in my bedroom, I sleep in my workshop.
ANyway, here's the barrel inserts. Bit messy, but it'll hardly be seen anyway; I'll hand paint it later as I can't be bothered to mask off all those clear areas.
So that Millput/styrene idea kiiind of worked I guess..?
I'll be hiding those nasty gaps with styrene; later on, once the second part of this section is attached, I'll bondo it all together so that those uneven spots will get evened out.
OKAY SO, here are the red shell LEDs partially wired up. The real problem is that I want the shell to be detachable, y'know, just in case I ever need to pack up the thing into smaller parts. But the question is, how can I wire these LEDs up in such a way that they can be detached later if need be? Wiring them up inside the barrel is out of the question because that will be completely sealed up as one piece. Hmm..
Please excuse my horrific skills with any kind of sculpting media.
ANyway, here's the barrel inserts. Bit messy, but it'll hardly be seen anyway; I'll hand paint it later as I can't be bothered to mask off all those clear areas.
So that Millput/styrene idea kiiind of worked I guess..?
I'll be hiding those nasty gaps with styrene; later on, once the second part of this section is attached, I'll bondo it all together so that those uneven spots will get evened out.
OKAY SO, here are the red shell LEDs partially wired up. The real problem is that I want the shell to be detachable, y'know, just in case I ever need to pack up the thing into smaller parts. But the question is, how can I wire these LEDs up in such a way that they can be detached later if need be? Wiring them up inside the barrel is out of the question because that will be completely sealed up as one piece. Hmm..
Please excuse my horrific skills with any kind of sculpting media.
Archive&Future
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Got a little frame cut for the speakers and LEDs, it all slots very very neatly into the front barrel.
I was also messing around with bondo/resin mixtures, just to see how well (if at all) it works. Turns out: pretty well!
Evangelion fans, feel free to make Shinji jokes about this :lol
I was also messing around with bondo/resin mixtures, just to see how well (if at all) it works. Turns out: pretty well!
Evangelion fans, feel free to make Shinji jokes about this :lol
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Gluing in the tasty speaker/LED config
I then cut a small section of PVC pipe to make the LED housing. I'll be cleaning this up later, adding some edges to it.
I SWEAR TO ALL THINGS GOOD, I GOT SO STRESSED OUT WHILE DOING THIS NEXT BIT.
Okay so what I had to do was, wire up all the stuff while it was all fitted. I couldn't work out another way to do it with the daft build I'd done
The three red LEDs were wired up in parallel on a piece of stripboard, then heatshrink'd to keep them neat and un-shortcircuitable. HOWEVER the wires wouldn't all fit in the limited amount of space available, so I cut out a block of the MDF using a scalpel and penknife
RIGHT, so once that all fitted properly, I went about putting the whole thing together, however the wires on the stripboard kept snapping at arbitrary points, probably about 4 times all in all of fiddly soldering. This led me to violently kill myself in frustration.
EVentually I managed to get it to stay together
I then cut a small section of PVC pipe to make the LED housing. I'll be cleaning this up later, adding some edges to it.
I SWEAR TO ALL THINGS GOOD, I GOT SO STRESSED OUT WHILE DOING THIS NEXT BIT.
Okay so what I had to do was, wire up all the stuff while it was all fitted. I couldn't work out another way to do it with the daft build I'd done
The three red LEDs were wired up in parallel on a piece of stripboard, then heatshrink'd to keep them neat and un-shortcircuitable. HOWEVER the wires wouldn't all fit in the limited amount of space available, so I cut out a block of the MDF using a scalpel and penknife
RIGHT, so once that all fitted properly, I went about putting the whole thing together, however the wires on the stripboard kept snapping at arbitrary points, probably about 4 times all in all of fiddly soldering. This led me to violently kill myself in frustration.
EVentually I managed to get it to stay together
Nice! Good perseverance.
Archive&Future
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Damn British weather, it was sunglasses weather last week, and now it's snowing! And exams this week, to boot; didn't expect to really work on this at all this week. ANyway, just testing the LED fit. The wires are wrapped in masking tape so they don't bunch up but stil retain flexibilty; they're then fed through these holes to the body. I'm going to clean up the openings later
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Masked up the front shell to paint the brace
Hmm...kinda...rubbish masking skills...
Found a use of that bondo/resin mix; attaching the PVC parts together. I know it's messy, I swear I know what I am doing....
At any rate, after that was sanded smooth, I laid down a coat of black and proceeded to bondo!
Hmm...kinda...rubbish masking skills...
Found a use of that bondo/resin mix; attaching the PVC parts together. I know it's messy, I swear I know what I am doing....
At any rate, after that was sanded smooth, I laid down a coat of black and proceeded to bondo!
