This project marks my first foray into the world of laser cutting. He gave me a copy of the files to work with, and now I had the best blueprints I could possibly hope for! While I was there, I met one of their designers named Tristan Reidford who had been working on his own very detailed model of the Gravity Gun.

The in-hand model only shows 3/4 of the backside, and the world model is woefully low resolution.Īs luck would have it, when I brought the Portal Gun to the dinner last year, the guys at VALVe offered a tour of their facilities. The biggest problem with the Gravity Gun is the somewhat incomplete reference of the piece. Get a cup of coffee and a comfy chair its gonna be a while.Īlternatively, if you're like me and 'patience' isn't something you've got in abundance, then please enjoy this less-than-two-minutes video of the finished product. That's really saying something considering the length of some of my other write-ups, but I felt a warning should be in order. Well, first, this is possibly the longest entry I've ever written. It sold for a staggering $21,000 - and here's how I made it. I never had anyone actually commission one of these from me, so I decided the Child's Play auction would be the perfect place to release it. Was it a fluke, or is Portal just that big of a game?įor this year, I knew I had to keep up the momentum (or die trying!) A longstanding 'someday' project of mine was the Gravity Gun from Half Life 2.

I really had no idea what to expect this year - my Portal Gun sold last year for a whopping $14,500 - but its difficult to get a grasp on things when numbers start to reach a point like that. At that time, the gun was newly finished and on its way to the Child's Play charity dinner in Seattle. Last month I posted some pretty pictures of the finished Gravity Gun, taken by my good friend Dan Almasy.

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