Fan creations are a way for players to express their appreciation for their favorite games—and one League of Legends fan has gone above and beyond. Reddit user Cara50Cl recently shared images of a beautifully intricate Wooden Blitzcrank statue and briefly spoke to Dot Esports about what went into crafting this work of art.
Standing a foot tall, the Wooden Blitzcrank statue is composed of roughly 500 laser cut wooden pieces. His belly, shoulders, arms, and fingers can all be rotated to change the golem’s stance.
Cara50Cl modeled all the pieces individually in Fusion360 CAD software, which took around 40 hours, before laser cutting each part. Most of the wooden parts are engineered to click together on the inside of the statue, however, pieces on the outside needed to be glued to the inside parts and connected using nuts and bolts, adding eight hours to the total construction time.
In total, the project cost around $100, with most of the cost coming from laser cutting and required materials such as wood, glue, nuts and bolts, and sanding paper.
As an industrial design student at Ghent University in Belgium, Cara50CI first designed an older version of the statue two years ago with a former classmate for a school project. The project required students to build a robot by combining laser cutting with 3D printing, but the subject was left rather open-ended, allowing students to choose what the models would be.
Cara50CI first began playing League of Legends in season four and found inspiration for the design from playing matches with friends. Blitzcrank served as a perfect model for the project due to his robotic features, and Cara50CI enjoyed playing the support hero and invading opposing teams with five-man premade groups. Other robotic characters like Orianna and Viktor shared similar features, but their organic models were too complicated to craft with flat shapes.
Unfortunately, selling the models isn’t a possibility due to copyright restrictions, but Cara50CI is already planning out what champions would work well in any future projects.
“The Battlecast skins like Kog’Maw, Urgot, Skarner and Cho’Gath seem fun to make,” Cara50CI said. “The Mecha skins, Dreadnova skins, Battle boss skins, and the new Praetorian line fits the robotic theme as well. I really want to make another one, looking at the positive comments I got from this project.”
