This Nifty Pip Boy 3000 Replica Will Save Your Life in the Wasteland

[John Funk]

This Nifty Pip Boy 3000 Replica Will Save Your Life in the Wasteland

With this hand-crafted Pip Boy 3000 (and an iPhone 4), you'll never have to venture out into the Wasteland unprepared again.

It's perfectly normal for a person to, every now and then, get the urge to wander out of their nice safe Vault into the irradiated wastes that remains of the world after the nuclear holocaust of World War III. But these wastelands are not safe places, oh no: They're full of mutants, bandits, and potentially game-crashing - er, life-threatening - bugs. So, as any wasteland wanderer knows, you never leave your Vault without your trusty Pip Boy 3000.

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It may look like it's made out of genuinely welded metal, but creator Chanced [http://chanced1.deviantart.com/] says this incredible-looking real-life version of Fallout's Pip Boy was made with naught but "card and paper," mostly.

Oh, and an iPhone 4 - that would be the screen, of course. So, not only can your Pip Boy help you survive in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland, but you can play Angry Birds on it, too!

If you've got an iPhone 4 lying around and want to look like the most stylish Vault dweller ever, Chanced is selling these babies over at Etsy [http://www.etsy.com/transaction/49950078]. Or, rather, he was - his lone prototype has since sold out. Maybe if he gets enough requests, he'll make more.

(Ripten [http://chanced1.deviantart.com/] - thanks, GraelHart, for the link!)

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[PixelKing]

Saw this eariler, but damm.
Now we need those hand-crafted laser rifles and we can all be vault dwellers!

 

[Solstrana91]

Messaged him, I only live in Wolverhampton (Right next to Birmingham) so I've asked if I can order a copy.
Also asked what iPhone app he used to get the Pip Boy background.

 

[vrbtny]

Dayum.... I want one.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I want one, but only if I can use V.A.T.S. with it.

 

[newwiseman]

A pip-boy with a touch screen... BLASPHEMY! Still awesome.

I need one of those and the plasma rifle replica for Halloween.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

That's impressive, I haven't known anyone to use just card and paper before. Typically they use resin casts of the survival edition fallout 3 pipboy 3000, like this:
http://www.therpf.com/f13/pip-boy-3000-kits-fallout-3-fallout-new-vegas-open-thru-6-5-a-115275/#post1668375

 

[Kenjitsuka]

That looks EPIC!
Always showing us the awesomeness we can't have/afford, eh Escapist?
Don't worry, that's why I love ya

 

[DustyDrB]

What? No Pimp-Boy 3 Billion?

Not very Shagadellic of them...

P.S.: This thing will blind you in game sometimes.

 

[Mezzo.]

I want that thing so hard.

 

[Gralian]

But the real question is, how much did it cost?!

 

[WorldCritic]

Hopefully it's better at telling me where to go than the one in the games.

 

[ramboondiea]

haha, i will have to get one of these after i finish my laser rifle and brotherhood armour, its coming along nicely ha

 

[Top35]

I wonder if this pauses time while you apply stimpacks?

 

[Badong]

It's a shame I wouldn't be able to use the phone bit of the iPhone 4 without surgically twisting my left forearm by ninety degrees.

 

[triggrhappy94]

That's AMAZING

 

[the spud]

Well, I'm heading to Cleveland soon, so I might actually need some wasteland survival materials.

 

[.No.]

What? No Pimp-Boy 3 Billion?

Not very Shagadellic of them...

P.S.: This thing will blind you in game sometimes.

Whenever I use it, I alway's think it's too bright, because the regular pip-boy's screen becomes way too bright at times. It looks cool, but just isn't as good as the default color.