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By David Hollingworth
Jan 22, 2009 | 9 Comments
Tags: portal | portalgun | thecakeisalie

Essential linkage: What's the best thing a cosplayer can have? A boyfriend who's a professional prop-maker...

Portal was arguably one of the best games Valve has ever produced, full of black humour, mind-shattering physics puzzles, and the love that can only be shared by a hapless test subject and his companion cube.

The Portal gun, similarly, is a masterful piece of 3D design, and now, thanks a prop-maker helping out his girlfriend's efforts at making the test subject's costume, it's a reality. From the lucky girl's flickr:

"My boyfriend made this ASHPD for me for my upcoming Aperture Science Test Subject costume. It lights up both blue and orange along the tube and in the barrel, and the prongs light up red as long as the gun is on."

One of the comments on the pic suggests that she marry the dude, and we can't argue with that.

And he's taking commissions. Oh yes.

 
 
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nesquick
Jan 22, 2009 4:03 PM
 "test subject and his companion cube." the test subject was a female lol,
Hawkeye
Jan 22, 2009 4:13 PM
 The test subject *looked* female. Who knows what they actually identified as? Don't you force your own blinkered gender views on me, man!

- DH

PS: Fair cop :)
Krispy89
Jan 22, 2009 4:30 PM
 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
LordBug
Jan 22, 2009 5:36 PM
 Cosplay. Pfff.
I'm waiting for an engineer to jump in with his genuine working one :D
FunkyDwarf
Jan 22, 2009 6:36 PM
 Workin on it.
nukejockey
Jan 22, 2009 9:29 PM
 The test subject was an android or something yeah? Do they even have a real gender? Wouldnt you have been better off saying "Test subject and ITS companion cube" ? :P
H3VIW8
Jan 23, 2009 9:42 PM
 this is freaking awesome, does anyone know how one becomes a prop maker ? i love this s**t
Argotha
Jan 24, 2009 11:15 AM
 I want! I want!

And actually "it" was female, but was put through a chamber designed for military androids.

and may i remind you the android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the firs sign of defiance.
V1RUS
Jan 29, 2009 11:13 AM
 who cares if "it" was female or male just GIMMI GIMMI GIMMI lol and please not android hell PLEASE NO
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