How to Build a Portal Gun Flashlight

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Buy a flashlight.

   One with a blue or orange bulb (to simulate the light from a portal) would be great, but you can use a regular one as well.
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   Step 2: Purchase some pony bead tube string

   , Leave a little hole so you can still press the button on the flashlight.
   
   Skip this step if you have a black flashlight. ,, If there is any color on the flashlight beside black, mold some white over it. , You can use pony bead tubes (small, tube-like strings for pony beads), or you can use old headphone wires.
   
   You can use whatever works here! Add three on each side, inserting them in the clay.
   
   They should go from the far mold to the one near the light. , You know, those claws you use to pick up different things, whether it be your loving companion cube, a complicated blueprint GLaDOS has hidden in a co-op test chamber, or a core you are about to incinerate.
   
   You definitely need those to complete any portal gun! I used bobby pins for this part, but you can get creative and use anything.
   
   Insert them on the mold near the light, prior to where the wires are.
   
   Insert them deeply and have them secured on; make sure they are in there tight! , At the top of the portal gun, you will notice a blue or orange dot (depending on whether or not you are shooting a blue or orange portal).
   
   This part can get messy, because the clay will want to blend with the white clay.
   
   So, to avoid this, try to paint it on. , You can add little Portal designs, like a companion cube, an Aperture logo, paint it or GLaDOS hanging from the side--do what you'd like! A few ideas would be:
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   Step 3: bobby pins (or the like)

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   Step 4: air dry clay (white

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   Step 5: blue/orange)

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   Step 6: and paint

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   Step 7: if you wish to do customization.

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   Step 8: take some black air dry clay (or black painted air dry clay) and mold it all around your flashlight.

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   Step 9: Mold some white air dry clay onto the flashlight

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    Step 10: on the end of the stick.

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    Step 11: Mold some more white clay onto the front of the flashlight.

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    Step 12: add the wires.

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    Step 13: it's time to add the claws!

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    Step 14: Don't forget to add some blue or orange!

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    Step 15: If you'd like

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    Step 16: customize it!

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