WIP- Scratchbuilt Ray-Blunderbuss

Sketched out the initial idea on a legal pad on break time. Ended up darn close to the sketch!








I started this beastie as a means of maintaining my will to live during a really soul-crushing sales job. The project outlived the employment! Goals were to make it believable up-close, and spend a minimum of $$ on new materials, recycling scraps that were cluttering up my workspace.




Close to done now. A few more greeblies and a little more weathering to go.



More pics on my flickr if you're keen: Reliquary Emissions Projector - a set on Flickr

Wow, that's nice! It's a lot different than all the Steam Punk looking lameness that I see.

Not just anyone can pull it off well!

FB

Man..that is sa-weeet! Love how its constructed. Looks believable alright, nice job!

Mike

Wow!!!!

Looks like Tesla meets The Punisher

Very cool design, and it's looking terrific so far! Can't wait to see this one finished up.

Chris

Thanks a bunch, guys!

Yeah, I like the idea of steampunk, despise all of the plastic clock gears spray painted gold and hot glued to welding goggles! If your whole genre is based on a technology, you should actually give that tech some thought.

Incidentally, I didn't start out intending for this to look so steampunk, but I guess that's what excessive copper and brass will do to ya! I've previously described it as "tesla-punk?"

Haha! Tesla is a punisher, Hydin.

Extremely nice, and very well executed from initial concept to final product!!!

Looks like most is scratch built, how much of it though is found items?

Steampunk sawed-off shotgun ftw. Excellent job!

Bit too sawn-off for my taste I gotta admit, but that aside, it's bloody awesome. Couldn't agree more about the plastic clock gears, or even real brass ones: so what?? What do they do? This doesn't have that problem, it's a really coherent bit of composition. Looks great.

Pretty cool. :-)

That IS awesome. I'm not really "into" steampunk, but that thing looks like a scientific device that would actually work. I wouldn't be surprised to see lightning arc out of that thing if you pulled the trigger.

Screw steam, that's a straight up Teslapunk weapon! What's with the negative lead alligator clip in the second picture? Did you electroplate something, or just need to clamp some parts together?

It looks like something Rasputin in the Hellboy universe would use.

Thanks a bunch y'all! Haha, I'm pleased and completely unsurprised to find resonance on the steam-junk disdain here.

Nwerke said:

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Bit too sawn-off for my taste I gotta admit...

I really don't disagree Nwerke. It's sortof a janky, ugly little thing. I built it freestyle after a point, but it might've been stronger with different proportions. Thank you for the praise tho!

Hypercats said:

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Screw steam, that's a straight up Teslapunk weapon! What's with the negative lead alligator clip in the second picture?

Thanks man! No, that was just to keep the bits from rolling away in that mockup. The copper parts are gonna get a real ammonia patina however.

Spike said:

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It looks like something Rasputin in the Hellboy universe would use.

Dude, maybe my favorite universe. I take it as high praise!

@G17RDY, I'll just take 30 secs to hilight what's found in a jpeg insteada boring you with a list.

G17RDY said:

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Extremely nice, and very well executed from initial concept to final product!!!

Looks like most is scratch built, how much of it though is found items?

Hilighted bitz are found.

Thank you mucho! Yeah, it is mostly scratchbuilt. Body's all mdf, heatsinky part on top is lasercut acrylic (I work part time as a laser engraver) and most of the copper and brass is metal stock or scrap. Only major found bit was the muzzle coil; it's a seriously hacked up apple slicer: muzzle pix on Matt Jones's photostream

I can give some more specifics when I spit'n shine it and post final pix.

Majonaise said:

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Hilighted bitz are found.

Thank you mucho! Yeah, it is mostly scratchbuilt. Body's all mdf, heatsinky part on top is lasercut acrylic (I work part time as a laser engraver) and most of the copper and brass is metal stock or scrap. .

I was going to ask you about that - it seemed like something you'd have to be VERY CAREFUL to make 20 identical parts by hand and then space evenly apart, or machine a cylinder with enough grooves to make it look like 20 parts stacked together. How do you like working with the laser engraver? I bet you could make some really fun parts with it!

This is great. I love how every part seems to have a distinct function.
Great work!