DIY Rick & Morty's Portal Gun - DIY Prop Shop

hi I'm Odin and welcome to DIY prop shop where we recreate props using everyday materials without breaking the bank will you hurry up get this thing built so I can get out of here today I'm going to build the portal gun from Rick and Morty Rick's portal gun is a gadget that shoots green portals onto any surface and allows Rick and Morty to travel between infinite dimensions and realities the portal gun is a small handheld device for the red LED display that shows where the portal leads a black knob for setting the destination and a green plasma tube on top and there are three emitters in the front of the gun that project the portals I'm gonna make my gun four sheets of styrene plastic styrene plastic is the same plastic that's used in model kits it's very easy to work with and it's available at hobby shops and a plastic retail store so I was able to find these sheets from the remnant bin they were practically free with a tube of glue that I purchased so the back of the gun is actually curved I'm going to use PVC pipe to get that shape so I need to build the body of the gun 1 and 5/16 inch tall pretty much able to make one good cut and then snap the plastic so I can use the top of the template for my bottom so what I want to do this is the placement before I want my redoubt to go and the placement before the green plasma tube is going to be so I'm going to go ahead and cut out my pattern lay it directly on top of my plastic and I can make marks of where I want to make these cutouts for other objects to go later Hulse pretty rough something I want to send it down a bit because I'm sanding something round I'm gonna take my sandpaper and wrap it around a PVC fitting the bottom I need to make an access panel to both change the batteries and finish assembly I'm cutting some small pieces to use as a brace to inset the emitter panel I bought one piece of plastic that's twice as thick as the others this I'm going to use to make some reinforcements on the bottom and help attach to the PVC pipe and now I can start assembling it I'm going to glue it together with plastic cement so this is just like the glue you'd used to assemble a model the only difference is this one is a little stronger and will work with more types of plastic so at this stage I can put my emitter paddle in but I want to drill the holes out first to make these holes wider I'm going to use a step bit now the emitter panel is actually black so I need to paint this before I can glue it in place and continue with the body build in the show the emitters create the portals I'm going to use flashlights to show that the emitter has been turned on and the coat of flashlights green I'm gonna cut the bottoms off of these heated green shot glasses I picked up at the dollar store to cut the bottom off the glass I'm going to use a razor knife so even though you're not going to see it I'm going to sand the edges I have all the bottoms cut out now I can glue them into the emitter panel before I glue the next ones on I want to see how the lights going to work now the plastic cement can't glue chrome parts so I have to scrape the chrome off and then I can glue the plastic to the plastic now I'm going to hot glue the LEDs into the holders so that they won't fall out I'm use some wire and solder all three LEDs together I've completed a circle with all three lights I've used the red wire to connect all the positive leads and I've used the purple wire to connect all the negative leads they all light up now it's okay don't I got one battery pack for all three lights because I'm not making a flashlight I'm making a portal gun it only needs to be on for an instant just like with the chrome pieces I have to scrape the spray paint off the sides of the emitter panel so I can glue it in using the cement one piece I didn't cut I need to make yourself a little panel that just goes in the back side of where the display is going to be I'm picking up the back side for when I attach the handle and it has a little more of this into the inside corners for stability all right where those pieces done I can move on to the handle so specific with the size of cuts I use for the body because it makes it the same height as the PVC fitting so once I attach all these together and make a handle I can then cut this in half and glue it on I want the PVC fittings to fit flush against each other I need to put one small bit of PVC pipe inside to hold them together I can use the same cement I've been using you can also use a special cement they sell for PVC pipe I don't want to buy more glue now there's a fairly unique shape to the handle of bricks portal gun I actually found a whisk now this is a hard plastic handle it doesn't have a soft comfort grip that most do this is something I can actually glue so I'm going to just take the whisk apart and get the red handle so I got the red handle that will fit inside in order to make it a stronger connection I'm going to put a wooden dowel inside so the wooden dowel fits inside the pipe what I'm going to do is cut off the wooden dowel and then I can cut off a small section of pipe to attach the small piece of pipe to the wooden dowel I'm going to drill a hole and put a screw with a washer over it like glue it in next thing I need to do is get rid of this ugly it make it look like it's all one piece I'm going to use epoxy clay and it consists of a hardener side and a resin side and like most epoxies it's just a 50/50 mix so you don't want to mix up more than what you can actually use in 10 minutes then it starts to harden and becomes hard to work with what I need is enough then I can put around the base to smooth this out your fingers away you can smooth it out very easily and then plug the hole so it only takes ten minutes for it to harden put about 12 hours to cure then you can sand it I start out using a sixty grit sandpaper then I'm going back and doing some fine sanding the sanding sponge the finish sanding the handle down I'm actually very happy with it now what I need to do is cut the sides off so it's the same width as the body and then I intend on cutting it this way so I can glue it straight on to the body I'm going to use a table saw to do that if you don't have a table saw it's okay cuz I know you can cut this just using a regular wood saw or a hacksaw those have to go slow and be careful in order to get yourself a straight cut and I've got it cut to the shape that I want I can glue it on but before I do that I'm going to need to drill a hole on the top to build up with a button on to activate the emitters so I got a quarter inch socket screw and then should sell plastic knobs that can press fit onto the top of it once I've got that together I can make the trigger for the portal device the press fit it together put it in the vise and squeeze them together and what I plan on doing is having it activate this momentary switch to make the lights come on the switch does have enough force to push the knob back up so I'm going to use one of the springs that came out of the flashlights because this spring fits inside perfectly I don't have to tighten it up so the plan on the inside is for that to happen I'm going to need to let that set then I can trim the excess plastic off I'm gonna wire in the momentary switch and now we have a button for a trigger now I'm gonna start working in the green plasma tube that comes out of the top to make it I picked up a bubble one this is one dollar person to get rid of the bubble I'll rinse that out a minute now let's see here we go I cut the circle for it to fit in and when I cut the tube down I can just put it right inside I've cut the base off it rinsed the bubble out now I'm going to cut tube down to be three and a half inches tall I put the PVC pipe inside to keep the flimsy bubble tube from collapsing while I was doing time so I cut the handle off and I still have the lid to the bubble in there what I want to just put glue in this side and then I'll add the plastic submit so I'm going to cut the excess plastic off the sides here to make it the round shape they're supposed to be now I'm going to go ahead and glue the handle on so I'm going to reinforce the inside for some magical let's move on to a solving the switch for activating the emitters so I'm gonna use hot glue to tack the switch in place but then I'm going to plastic submit some styrene on to the sides to hold it there permanently so to make the tube light up I picked up an electric glow stick basically it's just an LED flashlight with a green LED so I don't to take the bottom off every time I don't turn this light on I'm gonna wire it in to switch I'm going to just hot glue this in place so this panel will glue here it's not glued in yet my entire bottom fits on top of that this area was left open so I have a hat to be able to change the batteries in order for this to stay in properly I'm going to make a little lip on the front of it I've got the small peasant plastic I'll glue on and then I'll put two rails on the underside of the panel here so it can all fit together and then I can just put one screw in the back to hold it in place so I'm going to drill a hole in the thick plate then the button can poke through and it'll cut a square hole very carefully back here and actually try to glue the button in place those of you wondering when the foam in this project was here it is all that's going to do is hold a battery in place so it doesn't rattle around now I'm going to attach the battery cover it just fits into place I guess you could drill a little hole so I can put a screw to actually hold it now I need to take masking tape and mask off the inside here the button and the front of the emitter I can take it outside and primer it and paint it if you could use the leftover number from when we cut the template earlier I printed another one on to label stock so I can actually just stick it in like a sticker so the one thing I have let that I need to do is actually put the green tube on top in the show it's not actually empty it has a plasma effect and it kinda like a plasma ball of course I can't really make a real one here because of milk tube but what I can do is I can put a small bit of the polyester filler in there this is the same stuff the stuffed animals are stuffed with so I just got a little bit in there not all the way to the end and now I have a little plasma effect I'm going to go ahead and put a bit of hot glue in this to keep it in place and my completed portal gun from Rick and Morty total cost of materials the bill this was $40 half of that was for magic skull and there's another six for glue so the actual piece is fourteen dollars let us know in the comments what are the builds we should do and if you trying these builds for yourself please send us a picture at DIY prop shop at break comm and if you haven't done so already don't forget to subscribe we've been faster if I had done it this isn't the right 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Keywords: rick and morty, rick and morty portal gun, prop build, cosplay, tutorial, how to, diy props, cheap prop build, diy prop shop, aweme, awemechannel, educational, science, adult swim, rick, morty, diy builds, schwifty, get schwifty, best rick and morty moments, mr meeseeks, sci-fi

Id: uPB6Z9btUO4

Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 20 2016