A Classic Fallout Costume

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Furries have fursuits, Trekkies have Klingons foreheads and Vulcan ears. What do Fallout fans have? Well, nothing for now, but there are dedicated individuals like weaponx who set out to fix that mistake and fill the gap with really good stuff. Here's a small teaser:

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Yes, that's the frame of a PIP-Boy 2000 replica. Looks interesting? Drop by his thread and leave a comment or two!

Link: Fallout props/costume for Comic-con
 
Furries have fursuits? :smug:

Also: That looks mighty unwieldy, though very faithful to the game. How would you suppose one strapped it to their forearm?
 
i always imagined that the original pipboy was unwieldy. i don't think it's strapped to the arm but instead kept in the backpack. though you never see images of the vault dweller with a backpack. they were in the game though. i used to stash all my chems and booze in them for easy access and also for when you get searched in vault city.

nice work by this guy though.
 
I always put my smaller items into some bag. Don't like, that they cut out the bags from Fallout 2, even tho' its understandable, as they don't have been very handy, when it came to usability.

Also I agree that it's doubtful, that the PipBoy 2000 is worn on the arm. It looks more userfriendly to wear it on a belt or in a bag.
 
Lexx said:
I always put my smaller items into some bag. Don't like, that they cut out the bags from Fallout 2, even tho' its understandable, as they don't have been very handy, when it came to usability.

Also I agree that it's doubtful, that the PipBoy 2000 is worn on the arm. It looks more userfriendly to wear it on a belt or in a bag.
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Yeah, but having it on a belt or in a bag makes it so much more prone to being destroyed in a firefight, or simply lost - either by clumsiness, or otherwise stolen.

Also: Interesting note on the quality of the satelite images presented by the PIPBOY in the overhead in-game world-map: In a world where most infrastructure no longer exists; are we to assume that it has some kind of planar mapping technology, or are the GPS/imaging satelites that were still hanging about in space, still there?
 
Also I agree that it's doubtful, that the PipBoy 2000 is worn on the arm.
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You mean other than it being stated in the FO1 manual that it is? :)

Although according to JE Sawyer's unofficial RPG (which is not officially canon, but close given his current position), the original Pip-Boy 2000 was hand-held and only a limited series of these unwieldy devices (one of which was the one owned by the Vault Dweller and Chosen One) was worn on the arm.
 
Ausir said:
You mean other than it being stated in the FO1 manual that it is? :)
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The Fallout 1 manual is full of errors. :> As example, a lot of the written down forumlars are wrong. I am not really into that stuff, but one of our FOnline scripters reverse engineered a lot of the combat stuff from Fallout 1 / 2 and always when I link to something in the Vault, he can't stop talking about how wrong it is. :P
 
Ok, that's a bit expensive. :)

But then again, I have a windows mobile / PDA, which isn't very expensive. It could be worn on the arm very easy, if the design would be better. So in theory it can't be that hard to get a mini-computer for the arm, which doesn't cost that much and features all the stuff that a normal PDA features as well.
 
junkevil said:
i always imagined that the original pipboy was unwieldy. i don't think it's strapped to the arm but instead kept in the backpack. though you never see images of the vault dweller with a backpack.
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Maybe he keeps the pipboy wherever he keeps the 3 miniguns, his rocket launcher, his flamethrower, his ammo, his shotgun and his stimpaks. ^^
 
Tagaziel said:
Furries have fursuits
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I always thought furries were furries because they liked the nakedness of furries mixed with how much emphasis is given, by the fur patterns, to the shapes of the bodies!

Now I find out (after a wikipedia search) that furries are just deranged individuals with completely improper tastes...
 
Blackened said:
junkevil said:
i always imagined that the original pipboy was unwieldy. i don't think it's strapped to the arm but instead kept in the backpack. though you never see images of the vault dweller with a backpack.
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Maybe he keeps the pipboy wherever he keeps the 3 miniguns, his rocket launcher, his flamethrower, his ammo, his shotgun and his stimpaks. ^^
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hahaha if we see by that point of view, RPGs are absolutely unrealistic.
Now imagine you seeing in an isometric 90's rpg a men holding 3 miniguns 2 shotguns ropes stimpaks and lots of booze in his back. I guess it would pretty much ruin the experience, since he would not be allowed to run neither walk decently haha
 
verevoof said:
Who is to say that the pip-boy is that big? Isn't it possible that it's the size of a rather large watch? Though, it would be hard to read.
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Just thought I would jump in here. I had this same thought about size when I was making this and when I read through the wikipage, it says that the screen in 3in. by 5in. so I based the size off of that. The screen is almost exactly the right size and the dimensions match very well. Here is the page I found it on if you wanted to check it out. It's at the end of the first paragraph.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pip-Boy_2000

EDIT: I'll most likely be wearing a backpack like in the game to keep some stuff if I get tired of carrying it. I really think this will turn out to be one of my best costumes yet.
 
Beelzebud said:
I always pictured the original Pipboy from F1 and F2 to be a bulky suitcase style laptop device.
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I used to think it was way too big. My problem at first was I'm used to seeing that giant picture on screen. I forgot it's only that big so you can actually see what your doing. My prop actually feels really nice in your hands. Not too big, not too small.
 
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