How to make a Portal Gun

Step 15 Finishing touches

Unfortunately not many photos of these steps, but it's pretty obvious. The whole model is sprayed black and a hole cut in the paint can for the hole in the shell to poke through.

Holes are then cut in the front shell and top of the windowed section for the arm thing, tubing and black wire thing to poke through and all glued into place. The top arm on the windowed section is off centre in placement and is further over to the right.

Poke the other end of the tubes into the plasticine sweet capsules on the big shell and glue in. Then glue the shells to the main barrel. The hole cut out of the barrel is paned with a sheet of clear plastic inserted inside and stuck down and you're done!

Comments

[xXnocturnusXx]

This is awesome...but I'm still confused on what you used for the hook/arm things that come out of the front....and do you think fiberglass resin would work better for the outer shells?

[chiok]

The hooks are essentially four bits, two long bits of 5mm pine wood cut and trimmed to shape to make the arm.  Then two more triangle shaped bits stuck to the end of the arm to taper like a beak.  Then fill in the gaps and paint.  Repeat twice more.

As for fibreglassing the shells, you'd still need to make a cage to put the fibreglass on, but you can smooth and fill in the shell much easier and get a much smoother shell than with papier mache.  The other option would be to carve it out of pink/green insulation foam or polystyrene and seal with filler.