Portal!

[lefty]

So let me get this stuff out of the way, the portal gun design was stolen from Pirate Pete (who apparently also stole it from someone else ) as well as the super-colliding super button.

Also, these pictures were taken with an iphone, a single fluorescent bulb, and a wind-up flashlight which explains the quality of the photos. Not that I'm making excuses, I probably couldn't do any better with the best equipment and lighting available.

A turret from portal, mostly I wanted to just build this but a turret by itself is lame, so I made a couple other small things to go with it.

I'm kinda proud of the design, it's one of the first models I've really thought about and tried many different approaches and ended up with a design I was happy with. I'm not a very good or active builder.

I forgive you.

To go along with the turret is a simple (half-assed) Wheatley orb on a stand, as well as a button to activate with a cube.

Speaking of cubes, here's one with the most popular-with-14-year-olds silent protagonist, Chell.

the cube uses this design. If I had any of those new 2x2 jumper plates with one stud, I would have used them and put red 1x1 tiles on them at angles to represent the companion cube's hearts, but alas...

and an especially bad picture showing (highlight to read the spoiler)glados in potato form attached to chell's portal gun, which should have been tan but the only one I could find in tan was broken and couldn't keep a stud in the bottom :/

It should have been easy to find another one but one of my little brother's favorite things to do is to dump buckets of legos back into the big drawer after I've sorted them. Come to think of it, the reason that switch base was broken was because he had chewed it. Makes you wonder why I bother building these things for him to play with...

Anyway, I hope everybody can tell what's going on in the pictures. I also hope I deeplinked properly, and my spoiler was effective :p

Edited May 19, 2011 by lefty

[Pirate Pete]

thanks for mentioning the design that I stole , and the button that I did design . good job, though. I might have to try to put POTaTOS on the gun in the method that you put that thing on the gun

[lefty]

Well of course credit where credit is due the potato is just a switch base, in case the picture is too blurry to tell.