really fun for you today a lot of you
have commented saying that we should do
something from the game fortnight and I
thought what would be the best idea
would be to build one of the weapons
seen in the game so this video is part 1
of 2 in building the vendor tech rockets
slammer which I thought was just the
coolest looking weapon and I had to
build it to make sure this hammer isn’t
gonna hurt anyone and so it’s light
enough to use most of its going to be
made out of some Eevee a foam and a PVC
pipe I’ve got this chunk of foam which
I’ve already sort of made into a
hammerhead shape and that’s going to
help me make the pattern out of the foam
for the build
I made this using some of the same
techniques that I described in our video
where I showed how to make some large
Mario Kart shells out of fiberglass this
is pink rigid insulation foam which is
glued together and then shaped using a
handsaw and some rough grit sandpaper
I’ve got a couple kinds of glue a razor
blade a heat gun some tape I’ve also got
my computer up on the counter which I’m
gonna be using to look at my reference
pictures of the hammer let’s get started
let’s start with this block that I’ve
already carved into the general shape of
a hammer head will cover this form in
tape and then cut it off let’s trim off
the top and bottom of the tape and then
use one vertical cut to remove it from
our form as we cut and remove the sheet
of tape from around our form we can see
that it’s very curved we’ll need to add
a few more cuts in it to get it to lie
flat on our sheet of foam with the cuts
added into our sheet of tape we can now
press it down onto the sheet to make it
lie flat let’s take a white marker and
trace around our entire pattern down
onto the foam we can then remove the
tape and cut along the lines that we’ve
drawn with our pattern cut out of the
foam we now need to glue together all of
the exposed edges I’m using contact
cement which I’m storing in a squeeze
bottle with a small hole cut in the tip
this makes for a very easy application
as we start gluing together the pattern
we can see it the form of the hammer
head begin to take shape
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once we’ve glued together all of the
matching edges our Eevee a foam
hammerhead is looking great let’s move
on to making the face of our hammer we
can place what we’ve just built face
down on a mat of more foam and trace
around that with our white marker to try
and get our edges to match up nicely
we’ll cut around this circle at a 45
degree angle let’s trim the edge of the
hammer head at a 45 degree angle as well
now the two pieces should meet nicely by
gluing those two pieces together we have
the front face of our hammer to help
prevent the head of our hammer from
deforming let’s draw and cut out some
shapes from a 1-inch sheet of styrofoam
the head of this hammer has one large 8
sided piece on top of a smaller 8 sided
piece which are both held a small
distance away from this face we’ve
already assembled we’ll cut out one of
the small pieces and two of the large
pieces and then put those together
because contact cement will actually
dissolve styrofoam we’ll be using a hot
glue gun to glue the styrofoam pieces
together by placing our styrofoam
octagons down on sheets of foam we can
trace out just the right sizes to
completely cover all the styrofoam in
the Eevee a foam the center of this
hammers striking face has a domed circle
on it to get a curved surface let’s use
our heat gun on a piece of foam and when
it’s nice and hot we’ll try stretching
it over a playground ball the Eevee a
foam can’t stretch and shape infinitely
but we can add a little bit of contour
if needed this bowl has the right
circumference for the circle we want to
add on to the hammer so let’s use this
to trace out a circle onto our curved
foam we can glue this dome circle on to
the front of our hammer and we have our
impact head to add a little bit of space
between the body of our hammer head and
the striking face of our hammer head
let’s glue together two sheets of EBA
foam and then cut a circle out from them
once this striking face is attached to
the body of the hammer it will be very
difficult to do any cleanup work so
let’s do that quickly now a stone
grinding attachment on a rotary tool
does an excellent job of taking down
sharp edges on Eevee a foam and for
filling in any gaps or scratches in the
foam we’ll use something called gallery
glass it’s a product designed to
simulate the letting in stained glass it
does a great job of filling in gaps and
it takes paint very well as a final
preparation step before we attach the
striking face of our hammer onto the
body of the hammer head
let’s hit it with a heat gun which will
help seal the foam and make it easier to
pay
later on with all that prep work
complete let’s use some more contact
cement and glue the two pieces of a
hammerhead together some of the next
steps will require knowing where the
handle will attach to our hammerhead our
handle is going to be a PVC pipe so
let’s measure and cut a hole for that we
can mark the foam by pressing the PVC
into it just a little bit and we have a
clear line where we need to cut we’re
not going to permanently attach the
handle yet because it would get in the
way as we work on the rest of the
hammerhead just like with the front of a
hammer we will trace a circle that will
be glued on to the back we’ll cut this
circle at a 45 degree angle and trim the
back of the hammer as well so the two
angles meet up nicely before we glue on
that circle though we’ll build the rest
of the back of the hammer onto it as
well as attaching our handle and
reinforcing it inside the hammer head
the back of our hammer has a few
different sizes of circles leading up to
a conical piece that is the rocket at
the back of the hammer let’s trace out
those circle pieces from foam and then
glue those on before we glue some of
these circles down permanently let’s use
our rotary tool to smooth down the
corners to get a custom cone shape we
can either partially cut a piece of
paper or partially tape two pieces of
paper together by overlapping the edges
more or less we can get a cone that is
either more or less pointed once our
paper is overlapped to give us the shape
of cone we want we can tape it off and
then measure the size of circle for the
base of the cone I’m going to use this
roll of tape to measure because it
happens to be just the right size of
circle this marker on top of a few
stacked sheets of foam will give us a
uniform height that you can trace around
our cone after cutting off the extra I
now have a chronical strip of paper that
should work as a perfect pattern a quick
cut gives us a nice flat piece of paper
that we can trace out onto a sheet of
foam and then cut it out
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this cone shape on the back of our
hammer has some panels along the sides
of it that are the same size and shape
so we’ll cut out a second one of these
patterns as well to make the side panels
we cut one of the two pieces of foam
into six equal parts a quick cleanup
with our rotary tool gives us nice
rounded edges let’s glue all six of
those panels around the sides of our
conical ring after a little bit more
cleanup with our rotary tool we’re ready
to glue that cone-shaped ring to the
back of our hammer the back of our
rocket has a second cone shape extending
off of the back of the first one let’s
use that same technique with a piece of
paper to make a custom cone shaped
pattern once again a roll of tape
happens to be just the right size so
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finally the back of our rocket has
another cone-shaped piece that tapers
inward rather than out once again a
quick paper comb pattern to make that
piece a small flat circle in the middle
of that cone finishes up the back piece
with that glued in place the back of our
rocket hammer is looking great the
rocket portion of our rocket slammer is
now built and as I said we aren’t
attaching it yet until we’ve really
secured the handle inside our hammer but
it’s looking really good it’s looking
really good the front is looking really
good and so now we have four fins that
we need to add going around the body as
well as two little energy pods with a
cable coming out of them I don’t know
what those are supposed to do but they
look beat a rubber band stretched around
the body of the hammerhead will give me
a nice even line that I can measure from
making these fins is going to take just
a little bit of guesswork so let’s cut
out what looks like about the right
shape and then modify it as we go we can
hold our cut fin pattern up to the body
of the hammer and see where it needs
adjustments once we have the inside
contour of the fin correct we can draw
in the outside shape the shape of this
fin is good but the fins need to be a
little bit thicker so let’s glue
together two sheets of our EBA foam and
then cut out four of this fin pattern
adding these four fins is definitely
going to make our hammer look more like
a rocket the sides of our rocket have
two small pucks which seem to be glowing
with blue energy the surface of these
pucks have three recessed cutouts so for
each one I’ll cut out a circle and then
remove the unneeded pieces from that
circle the circles with the removed
pieces can then be glued onto the
surface of some thicker pieces quickly
going over the edges with the rotary
tool smooths out the corners each of
these pucks also has a small raised
circle in the middle which will just add
with a thin sheet of EBA foam let’s glue
these two pucks onto the side of the
body of our rocket hammer this rubbery
gas line hose should work really well
for the cables that run from the little
pucks on the side of the hammer up to
the front of the striking head we’ll hit
them with a heat gun to get the shape
closer to what we want at the end of our
rubber hose we want it to make a sharp
90-degree turn so we’ll cut a small
notch into the rubber and then add some
glue to make it hold that shape the head
of our rocket hammer is mostly built so
it is time to move
to the handle the base of that is going
to be this PVC pipe which is just a tiny
bit too long I think need to take just a
few inches off of the bottom but most of
this handle is made up of a few
different cones the head of the hammer
will fit this far onto this PVC pipe to
really give it some stability then
there’s sort of a cone shape underneath
that a round cylinder under that and
then we’ve just got a good stretch of
plane handle and then we’ve got a flared
cone here and a long tapered cone at the
very bottom let’s trim off the end of
this and then I’ve taken the liberty of
making some of those cone shapes out of
paper we’ll use those as patterns and
a small ring of hot glue will hold the
neck in place when I slide it up to the
height that it’s supposed to be below
the cylindrical piece is another small
ring which will just be another small
strip of ETA foam the body of the handle
is mostly one uniform thickness but
there are two recessed strips which run
down the length of the handle angled a
little bit more toward the front
so we’ll coat the rest of the handle in
more EBA foam leaving a gap where those
two strips should go there are two more
cones that make up the bottom handle
shape of our hammer and we’ll make those
the same way we’ve made our other cones
a small doughnut-shaped ring can connect
the opening of the upper wider cone to
the lower narrower cone we really want
to make sure that our pipe is well
attached to the inside of the head of
the rocket hammer so let’s cut out some
circles that will fit around our pipe
and then glue onto the inside body of
the rocket hammer to make sure that it’s
not going to move around as I shake and
swing this thing the PVC has support
attaching it to the top and bottom of
the inside of the rocket hammer body but
I want even more than that so we’ve got
these two pieces of supporting foam that
will work as a sort of scaffolding on
the inside of the hammer with our
support structure well installed inside
the head of our hammer we can now glue
on the back rocket with the hammer head
attached firmly onto the handle it’s
time to add the few pieces that connect
to the neck of the hammer onto the head
once again these pieces are thicker than
a single sheet of foam so it’s glue two
of them together because of where some
of these supporting pieces attach it’s
necessary to do a little bit of cleanup
at this point all of the pieces are
added on to our hammer there’s nothing
left to do as far as the build goes of
course this doesn’t look like the hammer
in the game because we haven’t added
paint to it yet so there are some little
details that will need to be carved into
the foam and then we’ll go through a
several step process to paint this whole
thing up but it is looking great hey
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