Boomerjinks
Member
+301|6765|Denver, CO
When Portal came out last fall everyone went nuts over it, including my girlfriend Shauna and me.

I enjoy building props (as evidenced by my cars, hurf durf) and she enjoys (surprise surprise) cosplay. She immediately decided that she wanted to do a Chell costume along with a giant, soft, huggable, wearable Weighted Companion Cube suit.

I got all sorts of excited about the project back in February and I stared my portal gun build. I planned on making a very realistic version of the gun, with more parts and details than those seen in the actual game, the goal was to make it look like an actual piece of equipment. After one trip to Home Depot I had the nozzle:
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/barrel.jpg

Flash forward to about a week ago and I haven't done a SINGLE GODDAMN THING to forward the project. A sci-fi convention was coming up at the end of the week that Shauna and I were planning on attending, and her costume was ready... all she needed was the gun. Originally I planned on using a sculpted styrofoam buck for the shape of the front and rear shells. I would paint the bucks, smooth them down, cover them with fiberglass, tear out the foam, fill the fiberglass with resin, and have a nice, shiny replica of the gun's shells. That didn't work. Fuck. So I tried plastering and plasti-dipping footballs. That didn't work. I bondo-ed a bike helemt... same thing. FUCK. So here I am, one day before the convention and my girlfriend doesn't have a portal gun for her costume. Well shit!

I ran out to Sam's Club and found a bottle of laundry detergent that I felt was close enough to the shape I needed. I cut it up, painted it white, then bolted/glued it to a 4-inch PVC gun core I had made. I used a smalled fabric softener bottle for the front of the gun.

The end result was pretty satisfactory. I finished adding some tubing at the convention and then we were off to the costume contest. We're sitting in this side room, waiting to go on and Shauna sets the portal gun on top on a bench. A little girl somehow knocks it off the bench and the gun splits in two, with tons of paint chipping off the shells. I managed to patch it back up and make some quick repairs, but the state you see it in now is due it being partially smashed then brought back from the dead.

BEHOLD!
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/pg2.jpg
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/pg1.jpg
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/pg3.jpg
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/pg4.jpg

I wasn't too happy with the end result, it worked for a pinch convention but I'd still like to revisit the build sometime and make a smoother, more accurately-shaped gun. Less long, more round!

About two weeks before I got to work on the gun, Shauna started constructing the Weighted Companion Cube. She started with 3" foam for the main cube, using a TON of hot glue to 'weld' the thing together.
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/wcc3-1.jpg
She worked day and night on that thing, while I played CoD and putt off working on her gun. Blegh.

Anyway, she finished building the cube at the convention on our hotel room. We were lucky because, since the cube was 'squishable' we managed to get it out the door. Here is then result of that:
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/wcc4.jpg
Entrance to the cube:
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/wcc5-1.jpg
Being worn by my roommate, Jer:
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/Portal%20Gun/wcc7.jpg

And here are pictures from the actual convention, with Cube, Gun, and Chell costume!
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/15.jpg
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/10.jpg
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/cctest.jpg
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/portal.jpg

Aaand this is how we got it home:
https://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Boomerjinks/jube.jpg

So... whaddaya think?

Last edited by Boomerjinks (2008-04-25 14:33:29)

Poseidon
Fudgepack DeQueef
+3,253|6507|Long Island, New York
Holy shit.

Have my babies.

Then you may consume them after birth.
Miggle
FUCK UBISOFT
+1,411|6711|FUCK UBISOFT

boomer you have to have the coolest life of anyone on bf2s.
https://i.imgur.com/86fodNE.png
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6597|UK
This is probably the most epic thing I've ever seen.
Metal-Eater-GR
I can haz titanium paancakez?
+490|6242
INB4AWSMSMILEY


Very cool dude,nice work!+1
kylef
Gone
+1,352|6463|N. Ireland
So. Awesome. I'm actually wearing the Portal shirt, too!
Roger Lesboules
Ah ben tabarnak!
+316|6547|Abitibi-Temiscamingue. Québec!
Awsm job tbh, really nice looking....finally original content on bf2s
SgtSlutter
Banned
+550|6607|Amsterdam, NY

liquidat0r wrote:

This is probably the most epic thing I've ever seen.
TrashBlinD
french canadians suck
+135|6612|can

SgtSlutter wrote:

liquidat0r wrote:

This is probably the most epic thing I've ever seen.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6167|Winland

NOBODY'S 'd YET!

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
N00bkilla55404
Voices are calling...
+136|5901|Somewhere out in Space

Freezer7Pro wrote:

NOBODY'S 'd YET!

Freezer got pwnt.
Ryan
Member
+1,230|6813|Alberta, Canada

Good work.
Gooners
Wiki Contributor
+2,700|6602

Your Girlfriends cute
Boomerjinks
Member
+301|6765|Denver, CO

Gooners wrote:

Your Girlfriends cute
Hell yeah she is... I could not have asked for a greater nerd!
SamTheMan:D
Banned
+856|5944|England

shes got a nice arse
SgtSlutter
Banned
+550|6607|Amsterdam, NY

SamTheMan:D wrote:

shes got a nice arse
Ever the gentlemen

Last edited by SgtSlutter (2008-04-25 16:32:35)

Sydney
2λчиэλ
+783|6813|Reykjavík, Iceland.


Truly
Mutantbear
Semi Constructive Criticism
+1,431|5934|London, England

That table sucks, re stain/varnish it
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Boomerjinks
Member
+301|6765|Denver, CO

Mutantsteak wrote:

That table sucks, re stain/varnish it
But... it's my work table... not 'sposed to be pretty!
cowami
OY, BITCHTITS!
+1,106|6259|Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

SgtSlutter wrote:

SamTheMan:D wrote:

shes got a nice arse
Ever the gentlemen
silly sam

You guys should have put a boombox inside the cube that blared "Still Alive".
https://i.imgur.com/PfIpcdn.gif
Fenix14
scout rush kekeke ^___^
+116|6526|Brisbane, Aus

Your Girlfriends Companion Cube's cute

Last edited by Fenix14 (2008-04-25 18:27:02)

cowami
OY, BITCHTITS!
+1,106|6259|Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

Fenix14 wrote:

Your Girlfriends Companion Cube's cute
slick
https://i.imgur.com/PfIpcdn.gif
LT.Victim
Member
+1,175|6532|British Columbia, Canada
Nice, I like your Jurassic Park Jeep too..
Nappy
Apprentice
+151|6199|NSW, Australia

shes hot, and nice cube and gun
TimmmmaaaaH
Damn, I... had something for this
+725|6409|Brisbane, Australia

Miggle wrote:

boomer you have to have the coolest life of anyone on bf2s.
https://bf3s.com/sigs/5e6a35c97adb20771c7b713312c0307c23a7a36a.png

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