Pipboy 3000 Build Start To Finish Plus Fallout Collection Pics

[🪦 travsall ●]

Finally got this finished up the other day! Been an in progress build for some time while I waited for some of the parts to come in, and figure out how to work with them LOL Bought the Pipboy body from Skruffy, could not be happier with it, beautiful casting, SUPER sharp details, and barely needed any work done, hard to ask for much more then that! I didn\'t go with one of his light packages, but should have, ended up spending more to get the pieces I needed for that mod after the fact. Oops. He did help me a bunch with tips on how to work with an EL sheet, and gave me the site where he gets his stuff from, sadly after I\'d bought a package on ebay that turned out to not include the right inverter. Live and learn right? Anyways, long story short, his help, and fantastic body really let me bring to life a piece that makes me giggle with excitement to look at LOL HUGE HUGE fan of the games, it\'s so cool to have my own Pipboy!! Especially considering the accumulative time I\'ve spent staring at one on my TV On with the pics!

With the minimal clean up done, holes for screws/rivets drilled and a light coat of primer.





With undercoat of silver metallic paint, top coat of Skruffy recommended metallic texture paint done, and some weathering effects started

[🪦 travsall ●]

Weathering and detail paint work finished








Hinge glued and screwed in place, Status light LED added, rare earth magnets attached for closure.

[🪦 travsall ●]

*massive time lapse to get EL sheet, and wrong inverter, figure out what the problem was, and order the right inverter*

EL sheet testing, golly gee willikers these are fun! I gotta find more uses for these, I wanna slap em on everything now LOL Rave version Darth Vader? Hmmm...

IT WORKS!!! [Happy-Dance]


And finally, the fully finished Pipboy 3000

The angle of this shot makes it look like the closure is quite a bit more off then it really is, I also left a little play in it so it will fit better and open wider.

It\'s guts, EL sheet inverter, 9 volt battery, and wiring, plus independent status light LED control board with button switch.

It\'s got a sweet backside too

EL on

From inside a Deathclaw cave


Then for fun, made up a quick display of all my Fallout pieces, and a couple extras. Included are, Pipboy 3000, 2 Nuka Cola bottles, Nuka Cola caps, Quantum caps, Sunset Sasaparilla caps, New Vegas chip, NCR patch, tin of Mentats, the Platinum chip, limited Wasteland collectors edition Vault-Tec bobble head, motorcycle goggles, Gun Runner made reinforced combat helmet, hunting shotgun, .44mag hunting revolver, 2 genuinely aged Capital Wasteland posters and random ammo

close up

Careful, Pipboy light\'s on

Vault lighting shot

And finally, a rare sighting, the elusive, thought to be extinct, or genetically altered with another animal, Vault cat!

[🪦 Homicidal#9 ●]

not a fan of the games, but I love the design of the pipboy as well as the prop replicas.....good stuff travis...

take care,
Tommy

[🪦 CreepingDead ●]

After hard work like that you need a nice cold Nuka Cola Quantum!

[🪦 VF 31 ●]

dude! just awesome travis! love that =)

[🪦 JOEY ●]

Incredible Travis!!! You have your own Pipboy... looks like you\'re in good health lol.
I can\'t wait to show my girlfriend this thread as she\'s a big Fallout fan. She spent a lot of time playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

[🪦 Mutilated ●]

You did a great job bro, looks fantastic. Love the little collection you got going on there.

[🪦 badnewskruse ●]

I absolutely love that pipboy man!!!! You did an incredible job on it. I love the Fallout games and your collection is tops great job all around.

[🪦 msharrow ●]

i seriously have no idea what this is, but it seems to be coming together for you. great work on all the pieces and if you do not mind, could you post a pic of the actual character you are doing up? i love this obscure stuff and watching it come together. all i know is from what i have read in this thread. i will be watching trav. if you are doing it i know it will be sweet and i will dig the finished product.

mike