badmojo
Well-Known Member
I call it The ZED-77.
I picked up the base gun from Walmart for $4. I also found this 2-pack for $3 and decided to use them as donor parts. As soon as I saw the filler caps on these I knew I had to make some type of rocket/grenade launcher. I also ended up using one of the pump grips for part of the Ammo Counter housing. I was able to harvest all the screws & a few greeblies as well. The finned thing on top of the scope was part of the inner tubing sytem stuck into an extra bit of a glowstick.
From there I went to Home Depot and spent over a 3rd of the budget on a 3-pack of those LED Flashlight/Glowstick things, 3 for $10.
But they work pretty slick. 1 click of the button is the flashlight, 2 is flash & glowstick, 3 is just glow & 4th is flashing glowstick. I just took the battery housings and sanded down the ribs so they fit just right into the 3/4" black plastic pipe. Drilled a hole in the pipe for access to the power switch. For the readout I cut the numerals from some card stock and laminated it with a piece of packing tape & just slipped it inside the housing.
Pretty straight forward on the barrel shroud, just took alot of time plotting out the holes. Man, using one of the step/knockout drill bits really moved this step along.
The grip on the launcher is some pool/spa hose I picked up from the cull cart for $1. After mounting the one warhead in the PVC launch tube I figured I'd use the other fill cap and some extra 1-1/2" black pipe from the barrel shroud and make an extra grenade, using some plexi disks for the base. Filled the sucker with hotglue & old nuts & washers to give it real heft. :rolleyes
The stock was pretty simple, I took a 61¢ yardstick and sanded the numbers off. The butt pad is three pieces contoured with a belt sander and sandwiched together with some wooden washers I cut using a hole saw. Trigger is another piece of yard stick, trigger guard is a copper tube clip.
Everything got a textured basecoat. Main body is black satin with the shroud, watertank & counter in grey hammered metalic. I tried the trick of spraying sheets of paper with silver & once dry just rubbed all the edges. Surprised just how good it looks in person. I just did one last finishing touch, put some kill marks on the water tank, one for every vote. :lol
Thanks again guys for all the votes. Makes me want to tackle another one. I'm already eyeballing the leftover donor gun parts.
I picked up the base gun from Walmart for $4. I also found this 2-pack for $3 and decided to use them as donor parts. As soon as I saw the filler caps on these I knew I had to make some type of rocket/grenade launcher. I also ended up using one of the pump grips for part of the Ammo Counter housing. I was able to harvest all the screws & a few greeblies as well. The finned thing on top of the scope was part of the inner tubing sytem stuck into an extra bit of a glowstick.
From there I went to Home Depot and spent over a 3rd of the budget on a 3-pack of those LED Flashlight/Glowstick things, 3 for $10.
But they work pretty slick. 1 click of the button is the flashlight, 2 is flash & glowstick, 3 is just glow & 4th is flashing glowstick. I just took the battery housings and sanded down the ribs so they fit just right into the 3/4" black plastic pipe. Drilled a hole in the pipe for access to the power switch. For the readout I cut the numerals from some card stock and laminated it with a piece of packing tape & just slipped it inside the housing.
Pretty straight forward on the barrel shroud, just took alot of time plotting out the holes. Man, using one of the step/knockout drill bits really moved this step along.
The grip on the launcher is some pool/spa hose I picked up from the cull cart for $1. After mounting the one warhead in the PVC launch tube I figured I'd use the other fill cap and some extra 1-1/2" black pipe from the barrel shroud and make an extra grenade, using some plexi disks for the base. Filled the sucker with hotglue & old nuts & washers to give it real heft. :rolleyes
The stock was pretty simple, I took a 61¢ yardstick and sanded the numbers off. The butt pad is three pieces contoured with a belt sander and sandwiched together with some wooden washers I cut using a hole saw. Trigger is another piece of yard stick, trigger guard is a copper tube clip.
Everything got a textured basecoat. Main body is black satin with the shroud, watertank & counter in grey hammered metalic. I tried the trick of spraying sheets of paper with silver & once dry just rubbed all the edges. Surprised just how good it looks in person. I just did one last finishing touch, put some kill marks on the water tank, one for every vote. :lol
Thanks again guys for all the votes. Makes me want to tackle another one. I'm already eyeballing the leftover donor gun parts.
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