Skyler101
Sr Member
Thought I would share this with you guys here.
I seem to like throwing myself at impossible projects. Let me explain.
Years ago I tried my hand at casting, and borrowed a friends mould to make some BSG Laser Pistols. I bought the wrong fibreglass resin and one of the pulls came out kind of melted, and missed most of the barrel part that hold the emitter.
I dont know why, but I cut off the barrel, and started looking at a way to attach the emitter directly to the body!
Every chance I got, I would grab a file, and some apoxy sculpt and did my best to straighten the flat surfaces and fill hold and missing detail.
After some work yesterday, I thought about giving it another shot of rimer and a topcoat of black. But before, here are the pics before painting!
The pistol together
With the emitter separated
Some of the detail and the quality of the casting
Rebuilding the emitter
The whole idea came when I saw a pic of US Air Force captain with a pistol tucked into his flight harness. I was thinking that that was far better than having it by your hip when in a fighter. If you were under attack, you could not pull it out in time. And the BSG pistol is a big beast!
Love your input and thoughts. Its been fun working on it, and I need to work on the emmiter some more, but its getting there.
- Skyler101
I seem to like throwing myself at impossible projects. Let me explain.
Years ago I tried my hand at casting, and borrowed a friends mould to make some BSG Laser Pistols. I bought the wrong fibreglass resin and one of the pulls came out kind of melted, and missed most of the barrel part that hold the emitter.
I dont know why, but I cut off the barrel, and started looking at a way to attach the emitter directly to the body!
Every chance I got, I would grab a file, and some apoxy sculpt and did my best to straighten the flat surfaces and fill hold and missing detail.
After some work yesterday, I thought about giving it another shot of rimer and a topcoat of black. But before, here are the pics before painting!
The pistol together
With the emitter separated
Some of the detail and the quality of the casting
Rebuilding the emitter
The whole idea came when I saw a pic of US Air Force captain with a pistol tucked into his flight harness. I was thinking that that was far better than having it by your hip when in a fighter. If you were under attack, you could not pull it out in time. And the BSG pistol is a big beast!
Love your input and thoughts. Its been fun working on it, and I need to work on the emmiter some more, but its getting there.
- Skyler101
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