Combine Metro Cop (Half-Life 2) Part 3: Fabric Parts and Final Reveal

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With the helmets, weapons, radios, and other props finished for the Metro Cops, the last thing we needed to put together was the flak jackets, the arm bands, and modifying the base garments. The flak jackets took by far the most work, but as they are one of...

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Combine Metro Cop (Half-Life 2) Part 2: Weapons and Accessories

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The Combine in Half-Life 2, and the Civil Protection especially, have some very distinct and iconic elements to them. During the build, I kept telling my team that the costume was basically three things - the helmet, the Stun Stick, and the voice, and that everything else was...

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Combine Metro Cop (Half-Life 2) Part 1: Helmets

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The Half-Life series has always been one of my favorite game series, and Half-Life 2 in particular has a special place in my heart. After all, it's the reason the first prop I ever built was the Gravity Gun. From the beginning I knew I wanted to some...

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Building a RepRap Wilson

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I really love 3D printing. I enjoy the end results as much as I am interested in the technology behind the machines themselves. Having a background in 3D design, it was obvious to me that 3D printing was something I was going to get interested and involved in....

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Furiosa's Bionic Arm (Mad Max: Fury Road)

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This post originally featured at Tested.com Last year, I was talking with a friend of mine about some of our "holy grail" projects. I told him that it was one of my dream builds to make a T-800 Endo Arm, as an actual prosthetic for an amputee. You...

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