The newest addition to the Ratchet & Clank video game series is only a couple of days away from release. Soon Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be available for PS5 players to hop into the new adventure from Insomniac Games with the titular Lombax and his intelligent robot companion.
With the new Ratchet & Clank sequel on its way, plenty of fans have been getting excited to see the new installment in the series. Some fans have been playing some of their favorite entries from the Ratchet & Clank series to gear up for the new game's release. While others wanted to show their love and appreciation of the games in different ways.
For one fan, Tom Lacey, this involved building his very own life-like replica of Clank, the titular robot, and deuteragonist of the game series. Lacey has been working on the Clank replica for many months now, and he was finally able to finish it after some time and hard work. Lacey recently showed off the finished product of the Clank replica, and it looks very much like the character was lifted straight from the games into real life. Lacey was able to get virtually every detail of the calculating robot down to extreme detail. Everything from Clank's head, his robot eyes, the shape of his body, and everything else was made on point.
Lacey tweeted a series of photos of the finished Clank replica online to show off the model in full detail and even tagged in the PS5 exclusive Ratchet & Clank game. He even included a photo of the Clank replica with his pet cat to give a sense of scale for the replica's size. Among the tweets, Lacey also included some information on how he made the Clank replica.
According to the tweets, Lacey made the Clank replica after many months of 3D printing, sanding, and painting the model. Lacey sanded the replica's parts, filled them using spray putty, and painted it with mostly Alclad chrome paint with an airbrush. He mentioned that the model wasn't based on any specific games in the Ratchet & Clank series since the character's design has undergone various changes over the years.
Lacey initially had some difficulty with designing the replica's eyes but ended up going with a clear resin paint and painted them green with transparent Alclad chrome. He also added the honeycomb pattern to the eyes, something similarly used in Clank's design in recent Ratchet & Clank games.
Lacey ended the thread with a tweet thanking everyone who helped out. He also thanked Insomniac for discovering his work-in-progress tweets, and he ended it by sharing his excitement for the critically acclaimed Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart releases June 11, 2021 exclusively on the PS5.