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Lifesize Portal Turret Model

by thinkgeekmonkeys

Willy Yonkers has a secret. It's 4 feet tall, 3-legged, and took 8 months to complete.

He's been toiling away in the GeekLabs workroom most of this year on a personal project. At first we thought it was the usual--casting Han Solo in carbonite, modelling an Enterprise Pizza Cutter, or painting a miniature HAL in fine detail.

But no, it was even more awesome, and we've been sworn to secrecy this whole time.

Read the whole story on our blog.

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Willie Yonkers at work

Willy and his top-secret project

It begins!

I started with the largest outline

Roughed out the egg with a sure-form

Before & after of the foam eggs

The laminations fell apart

The foam eggs trimmed down into all the needed parts

Laying out the slices to test the fit

First day of fiberglassing

All the major parts fully carved in foam

Everything gets bondo

LOTS of bondo

Leg mockup

I used epoxy with micro-spheres

Everything gets a heavy coat of white primer

All the pieces are starting to look nice

Looks like acne, tastes like spot filler

Checking out how the surfaces flow

Back leg coming together

Starting to actually look like something!

Test fitting the assembly

Glued the loop onto the back knee

This is the death-trap 'tablesaw

Antennae

Painted guns

Checking the depth of the front leg holes

First time standing on its own!

Dry fitting all the parts

Close-up of the front

All the parts

I see you.