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Completed project is here! ^_^ [link]

Upon request, here it is! I threw these pictures together the other day, but haven't had the chance to put this little tutorial outline together until now.

That being said, please keep in mind that this is an outline of a tutorial, so it's really more of a basic run-through of how I made the little guy. I will not be doing a step-by-step tutorial-- I'm really sorry about this, but there are too many variables with this project to do one. (i.e. shape of the dogbowls, size of the flashlight, what sort of tools and materials each person has available... and so on.)

I'm also sorry if these WIP pictures are totally useless. I really wasn't expecting people to ask about how it was made, so I didn't really take that many/take high-quality ones... ^_^'

So, to start, a two metal dogbowls, and a styrofoam sphere are needed. The later is available at most craft stores, and you should be able to pick out an accurate size. Cut the bottoms out of the two dogbowls (now, depending on the shape of your bowls, you may have to do more, but this is all mine required) and use them to mark out where the sphere needs to be carved out.Once that is done and you're happy with it, cut the sphere in half, find a piece of styrofoam of a certain thickness (should be about the same as the gouge running down the center on the completed Wheats), glue it in between the halves of the sphere, and sand it down. You an then put a hole in for the flashlight, and be sure to have the ends wider for the eye lens and back. (See pictures.) Once the sphere is all carved ot, you'll have to seal it to get all the bumps out, harden it, and allow it to be spraypainted. (I recommend using car body filler putty, oddly enough.)

For the disc around his eye, I used aluminum, rolled and hammered into a slightly coned shape. Rivets work for the three black dots, and the 'triangle' in the upper corner can be ground in. The lens for his eye is the paneling that goes over florescent lights, shaped over an outdoor floodlight using a heatgun, and a couple of sheets of translucent blue paper turn the light the proper color. The straps across his sides and the cross in the back are aluminum (it can be easily bent into shape.) For structural support, there are two long rods through his center that touch a ring around the flashlight. Over with his handles, the rods that go trough his main body are spraypainted wood, as are the black 'connectors.' The handles are bent aluminum aircraft tubing with rubber hose in the center.

After spraypainting everything and final assembly, his scuffs and grease marks and whatnot can be easily painted on with acrylic paint. ^_^ I also painted on the Aperture logo.

Phew. Sorry if this is... completely unhelpful. As I said, I wasn't expecting people to ask, and I'm awful at explaining this sort of thing... And my techniques and whatnot may not be the best. So, in short, I am very sorry, and I can only hope that this was of some help anyway!

Description
Completed project is here! ^_^ [link]

Upon request, here it is! I threw these pictures together the other day, but haven't had the chance to put this little tutorial outline together until now.

That being said, please keep in mind that this is an outline of a tutorial, so it's really more of a basic run-through of how I made the little guy. I will not be doing a step-by-step tutorial-- I'm really sorry about this, but there are too many variables with this project to do one. (i.e. shape of the dogbowls, size of the flashlight, what sort of tools and materials each person has available... and so on.)

I'm also sorry if these WIP pictures are totally useless. I really wasn't expecting people to ask about how it was made, so I didn't really take that many/take high-quality ones... ^_^'

So, to start, a two metal dogbowls, and a styrofoam sphere are needed. The later is available at most craft stores, and you should be able to pick out an accurate size. Cut the bottoms out of the two dogbowls (now, depending on the shape of your bowls, you may have to do more, but this is all mine required) and use them to mark out where the sphere needs to be carved out.Once that is done and you're happy with it, cut the sphere in half, find a piece of styrofoam of a certain thickness (should be about the same as the gouge running down the center on the completed Wheats), glue it in between the halves of the sphere, and sand it down. You an then put a hole in for the flashlight, and be sure to have the ends wider for the eye lens and back. (See pictures.) Once the sphere is all carved ot, you'll have to seal it to get all the bumps out, harden it, and allow it to be spraypainted. (I recommend using car body filler putty, oddly enough.)

For the disc around his eye, I used aluminum, rolled and hammered into a slightly coned shape. Rivets work for the three black dots, and the 'triangle' in the upper corner can be ground in. The lens for his eye is the paneling that goes over florescent lights, shaped over an outdoor floodlight using a heatgun, and a couple of sheets of translucent blue paper turn the light the proper color. The straps across his sides and the cross in the back are aluminum (it can be easily bent into shape.) For structural support, there are two long rods through his center that touch a ring around the flashlight. Over with his handles, the rods that go trough his main body are spraypainted wood, as are the black 'connectors.' The handles are bent aluminum aircraft tubing with rubber hose in the center.

After spraypainting everything and final assembly, his scuffs and grease marks and whatnot can be easily painted on with acrylic paint. ^_^ I also painted on the Aperture logo.

Phew. Sorry if this is... completely unhelpful. As I said, I wasn't expecting people to ask, and I'm awful at explaining this sort of thing... And my techniques and whatnot may not be the best. So, in short, I am very sorry, and I can only hope that this was of some help anyway!