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Apex season 8 just came out and with it a new battle pass and new bombastic new legend, Fuse
Fuse is the master of explosives, an avid guitar player and even has a grenade launching bionic arm
Apex Legends challenged us to make Fuse's bionic grenade launching arm so let's make it real!
But first I'm going to need to do some research... in the form of gaming
I'm gonna be a bit busy so I'm gonna let Ian take care of the build
So before we make it real let's figure out what exactly we're making
Let's have a look at some reference material that Apex sent over
I pulled some screen shots to give me a better idea of mechanisms
Bionic arm yeah...
All right so it looks like the arm kind of, like, transforms to shoot different projectiles
and it's like a mix between I don't know, spring loaded or pneumatic launching
He's also got this cool rocket launcher as his
ultimate so I think I can just reuse my junk cannon for that
Overall pretty straightforward all you need to do is:
Cut off my arm
Build a bionic arm
And then upgrade that bionic arm to transform and launch various different projectiles
Easy!
Let's start with the most important part: The Launcher
Now, guns are prohibited in Canada and a good way to get your video demonetized
So I'm not going to be making a gun I'm going to be making a launcher
and instead of using bullets I'll be making over-the-barrel darts
I'm basically using the same design as our Batman grappling hook gun but miniaturized
I'm going to start making this and in the meantime our new co-op Caleb,
he's going to start designing the gauntlet
All right let me explain to you how an over the barrel dart works
Basically this is your barrel, this is your dart, it slides
over top and there's two little vent holes here so compressed air rushes through these holes
pressurizing this chamber and forcing the dart off
Let me demonstrate
All right my launcher is ready so I might as well test it out, of course do not try this at
home because things like this are dangerous, if you don't believe me just watch these fail videos
I hope this works
It worked!
Oh that was great, can't wait to get this thing on my arm,
Caleb should be done with the design so let's go build that
Working at Hacksmith Industries is pretty crazy, I can't think of any other place
where designing and building something like this Fuse arm is an acceptable day's work
Needless to say, we love our jobs, Fuse is another man who enjoys his job
He's the brand new legend in the new season of Apex Legends
"Covered head to toe in all things that go boom,
Walter Fuse Fitzroy is a one-man wrecking crew and damn proud of it"
"If there's dirty deeds need doing I'll do them dirty"
He's a master of explosives, something I can relate to
And has a grenade launching bionic arm
"Never met a problem a compound explosive couldn't fix"
Maybe someday
And to top it off, he's an avid guitar player just like me
The new season of Apex Legends includes: a new battle pass, a new gun,
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Thanks for sponsoring this build EA
"Fusey will make sure you go out with a bang"
Caleb exported all of the dxf's so we can now laser cut all the parts
Now that we have all the parts laser cut we can start forming
them and bending them into the gauntlets, so let's get to it
This is the first part, it wraps around the forearm,
we have to bend it so this is what we're gonna do here
That's good, cool, step one
So yeah we got a whole bunch of rolling to do
All right we'll come back to that one,
let's try to make the entire main gauntlet and then move on to the auxiliary pieces
This goes like that, that goes like that and now we got a spring in the middle
Let's just start by welding this together
I'll start setting up on the mig, if you want to try continuing on with with these
Sounds good I'll get bending these
We got the elbow pad bent now we're going to bend this nice decorative ribbing
so that it'll fit right over top
I'll run it through the roller but it looks like mostly could be bent by hand
I was going to weld this regularly but the spot welder seems to be working pretty good
I'm going to get this a little bit further and then once you take over finishing
it then I'll start on the welding
Time to weld the launching mechanism on
Sweet
Alright so this is the golden grenade, it'll fit onto the barrel of the launcher, the pin comes off
and it's also printed in a few different parts so that it would all come together nicely
Now it's time for the spring, I'll paint that red because that's the color that it is in the game
These, I'll figure out some sort of mounting and weld them on so they're like this
now I just need to find a way to weld them on
It's looking pretty good except it's pointing down
That's not right, that is gonna need to be modified
All right so we got this here, looking mighty fine,
but it'll look even finer once I finish sandblasting it
Time to weld the projectile so it's just tacked on right now, but I'll fill it all in
Alright so next up I need to connect the elbow piece and
to do that I need to machine a pin that connects through here
So let's machine that pin over at the lathe
Just need to connect the elbow and then move on to the bicep
This is the curved portion of the bicep so we're going to need to roll
it and then bend it all together along those slits
All right there we are now let's take it over to the
welding station and get Ian to weld it together
All right so this is coming together nicely,
I'm gonna go get it cleaned up so we can start spray painting it the colors of an Apex Legend
All right so we have all our pieces together, they are looking fantastic,
the issue is they're not very comfortable
So Caleb I'm going to need you to
add some foam, add some straps, make it so it actually fits on my arm
All right!
I'm also going to rivet this shoulder piece right onto my leather vest
Let's get to it
Let's go
Man I haven't seen James in like a week
Who would have thought building
the Ultimate Gaming Pod in the Ultimate Sleeping Pod would have been such a bad idea
Where am I?
What the- Ah this is awesome
"Training will commence in five... four... three... two... one!"
All right it's go time
Yeah!
I hit it
All right now we're talking
I'm gonna enjoy this
Let's try that again, here we go
Let's try out the fist
I
think that exploded on my arm
All right let's try that again
All right what else can I shoot
Let's try a nerf grenade
Gotta pull the pin with our Hacksmith keychain
HACKSMITH.store
Here we go
Yeah!
It exploded as it was leaving
Let's try the smoke grenade
Oh here we go
I knocked the cap off
All right how about some target practice
All right let's try that again
Success!
My prize, the golden grenade
All right let's try this bad boy out
What a weird dream
I became Fuse...
Here we go!
I love this thing