A little cardboard and some craft foam can get you a cheap and easy DIY Pip-boy 3000 from the Fallout video game.

MATERIALS USED:
Pip-boy template (available free in my patterns vault)
Corrugated cardboard
Thin cardboard
2mm craft foam
5mm craft foam scrap
Scrap paper
Piece of clear plastic packaging scrap
Neon green puffy paint
Large flat plastic circle bead (or cardboard circle)
3 small flat plastic circle beads (or cardboard circles)
4 scrapbooking brads
1 small bottle cap
Plastic button with ridges
2 large snaps
Scraps of fabric
3 small round beads
Black permanent marker
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Multi surface glue (Power-tac)
Utility knife
Needle and thread
White school glue
Paint brush
Metallic copper paint
Gold Metallic paint
Metallic silver paint
Cream, red, and black paint

This was a really fun build. A bit time consuming due to the many different pieces on it, but very budget-friendly.

It can look a bit weird when you’re building it, since the little details are just provided by various little bits of junk. But once you add the paint job, it takes on a whole new life.

The trick to a good paint job, is to the put the gold over the copper while the copper is still wet. That way the two colors will mix unevenly, giving your DIY Pip-boy 3000 an aged effect.

For the text screen I used regular green puffy paint because my neon green had dried up. But if you can use neon green, it’ll look cooler. (For an example of neon green, check out my Doctor Strange magic disks here). And if you want to kick it up a notch even further, use glow in the dark green paint so it looks great in the light and in the dark.

But whatever you do, make sure all those internal fission batteries are up to date! 😉

Video tutorial by Amber Reifsteck, The Woodland Elf
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