How and why this lifesized Titanfall mech was built
Word that Germany is host to a 20-foot tall Titanfall mech for the next couple of weeks left all of us here at Geek.com asking who built it and how. It turns out this creation is one of two made by Daniel’s Wood Land, and the company was nice enough to share with us how this hulking bot came to be.Reaspawn and EA Games reached out to Daniel’s Wood Land a few months back with some artwork from Titanfall to see if they were up to the job. The larger of the two creations is the biggest creation the company has done to date. Originally named Gunslinger before it was delivered for use in countless gaming events, the Atlas mech that is now affectionately called Betty took the team four weeks to carve, paint, and assemble.According to Theming Designer Cj Berg, Gunslinger is made almost entirely out of EPS foam, which was cut using a large format 4-axis router and a large format CNC hotwire from 3D models made from Respawn’s artwork. The steel base for the mech was fabricated in house and then covered in more of the EPS foam, which was then coated and painted while the rest of the build happened. It wasn’t until the very end of the build that they were able to assemble the mech and see how it all looked as a single unit.Gunslinger is more than just foam and steel, there’s some animatronics going on in there as well. The torso has a few basic LEDs across the sides, but the head on the atlas is both posable and configurable, with LEDs that match the lights on the mechs in game. These are the only parts of the Gunslinger build that can be adjusted, but the addition of LEDs add just enough life to the build to make it even more menacing from a distance or in low light.Take a look at our gallery for the whole picture, and see as this project grows from plain white foam to gigantic robot.And, in case you were wondering, no actually asked “Why?” This was clearly something that needed to be done by someone. VIEW PHOTO GALLERY DSC_1593DSC_1593DSC_1643DSC_1655DSC_1683DSC_1695DSC_1709DSC_1721DSC_1732DSC_1735DSC_1738DSC_1744DSC_1746DSC_1760DSC_1808DSC_1813DSC_1817DSC_1835DSC_1840DSC_1847DSC_1849DSC_1871DSC_1933DSC_1986DSC_1993