One person has found a way to create your own Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV!
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ethesda announced that there are no more Pip-Boy Editions for sale. Bethesda’s Pete Hines said, “We reached a point where we’d go back to the factories and they were like, ‘Guys, this is it, sorry.’So if you didn’t get one, there will be no more made and you won’t get the ultimate game estimate. But not to worry, one person has found a way to create your own!
Thanks to Yvo de Haas from Ytec3D, you can 3D print your own. There’s plenty of time for you to do this before Fallout 4’s release on November 10th! Yvo de Haas’s version will come with three different sizes for everyone to wear. The “Phone Edition” is the only one available, but it will come with an “Accurate Edition” as well. If you want to spend time building one of these, the “Accurate Edition” will be the one for you. It won’t fit a smartphone, but it will be ready for a custom computer to be installed inside it. To add to it, it also has a tape deck on top! Says de Haas:
“Another thing that was a real challenge was getting a phone to fit in this Pip Boy. At E3 it was announced that the collectors edition had a wearable Pip Boy that could hold a phone, and so this 3D printed one also needed to be able to do that. There is only one problem. Smartphones have become bigger since Fallout 3, and this Pip Boy is smaller than the previous one. Bethesda has fixed this by breaking some of the proportions and dimensions to make a smartphone of decent size still fit. In some cases, dimensions are broken by around 1cm (which is way more than it sounds like). For the phone version of this 3D printed version, the proportions have also been broken to make the phone fit.”
Ytec3D provided a full parts list so that you can build your own Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV with files needed for your printer and notes on how to build your Pip-Boy! Although he has yet to post it, de Haas will post a “general assembly guide.” Check out the gallery and video below of the Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV!
Fallout 4 will be released on Tuesday, November 10th for all platforms!
