Wheatley is in his last few days before his first convention!
Wheatley has been painted and reassembled, now with handles. He was re-balanced after the addition of the handles and final electronics placement. We also cut the poles of the companion cube so he will be able to fit through a 6ft door. We just have a few more animation scripts to finish, a little bit of wiring to do, and to configure the Pi to auto-boot.
Our main focus now is finishing the Portal Gun, as without the Portal Gun we have no way of controlling Wheatley…
The center rod now has lights for each end, either blue or yellow depending on your selection. This is accomplished by mounting four high brightness leds (two blue and two yellow) in a plastic end that mounts securely on the end of the acrylic rod, which was sanded to refract light better.
We painted all black parts of the gun inside and out–those portions were made of blue pvc and formed the ‘nose’ of the gun with pvc and epoxy putty. The front shell of the gun was made with EVA foam and gaps were filled with silicon filler. All the electronics are in the gun and the battery life with the lights on was tested and ran for four hours without issue. We also did this with the companion cube, which lasted for a similar amount of time.
What we have left is to finish assembling the back shell, paint them, and attach them to the main body with velcro. We also have to mount the interior lights and OLED screen and update the software to auto-boot. We also ordered a transparent plastic tube that should be in by Wednesday to replace the one we attempted to make, which frosted up when we heated it to bend it.
For the human side of things, the orange jumpsuit and long fall boot socks have arrived. All that is left is to add the Aperture Science logo onto a white tank top. With the limited time, we’ve decided to wait on the full Long Fall Boots. Those will be done for next summer’s convention (or even possibly one at the end of August).
One year later: I finally managaed to craft Runaan’s weapons. I just didn’t have the time and I hardly managed to do everything completely until Elfia. I just had the swords done without the function of making them into a bow and I went without the quiver / arrows.
It was very important for me to build both weapons the way they are. It took me a lot of time and thinking to make a functional plug at the end of the swords which makes them into a bow. It’s a plug-in-system and it’s supported by magnets. The quiver is attached to the coat the same way. (I love magnets XD)
The pattern for everything was done from the original concept art as well as it was done by myself. (Thanks to marik_deahrel (Instagram) for your help and the digital outlining of those).
All of this felt like putting a 1000 puzzle pieces together. It was so much detail work. Temporarily I just wanted to surrender, but I kept going and crafting and finally I’m really proud of myself that I pulled it all through. ☺
I like the outcome a lot. These are my first swords / cosplay weapons I have ever done and I tried really hard to stick to the specifications of the original .
Cosplays & Pattern, Wigs Styling, Eva Foam Crafting, Galra Head Caps, Masks, Make up & Bodypaint, Props, Photos & Editing…
I love to provide you with my tips, patterns, photo wishes, information, etc.(on Instagram / Patreon / Twitter / Facebook) In exchange I’d like a little bit back from you, if you want. Because I do this all for free and it’s very time-consuming and expensive. I need a little bit help :)
I thought it over a lot of time if I should do this and I discussed it with my homies, too, to be absolutely sure. But at least I decided to make a Ko-fi for myself. The decisive factors are two reasons:
1) "you don’t beg for money. Whoever wants to do this, can decide to give you something or pay for something. The people give you the money because they want to and because they choose to on their own accords!“
2) I love to provide you with my tips, links, sewing patterns and things I tried, in the future even commissions (if my health condition allows it, meaning if my hands are going to work with me in this period of time), photo wishes, photo editings etc. All of this costs money and I never dared asking for it. But just a simple tip like "buy this wig for Lotor, this one is great” costs me about 60-90€ because I had some mispurchases which I also had to pay. I just could have never told you that tip, though, if I hadn’t done so. Same goes for sewing patterns and other stuff which I made and which cost both time and money.
Unfortunately I’m not fit for a normal life for health reasons like having a normal work life at all. (I don’t like to out myself like this, but this is the truth and there are days I wish that medical progress would be more advanced. ) Meaning that I give my hobby the last shirt off my back. But this hobby is also what keeps me in the here and now.
I don’t want to complain or beg for money. This is not an request for you to pay. Don’t feel forced.
You can chose how to take this. It’s just a try and either it works or it doesn’t. :) Thank you~
