Coz
Sr Member
Been getting in some paint practice.
Started off with one of these:
(Image from www.kapowwe.com)
(Only difference was mine was marketed as a 'Pirate Shotgun' And came with an eyepatch. I'm wearing it now.
)
And wound up with this:
Started out at about 19" long. So I cut off the stubby stock, and hacked down the barrels, so it now measures about 10" (tho it would've been a little long iff I could cut stright.).
A piece from inside the gun barrels made the 'figure 8' of the barrel tip much easier.
Also, 12 guage shells would actually fit, but I didn't go that far.
After filling the hole left by the stock (and adding a large blob of DAS type air clay for weighting the grip), I then proceded to sand off the molded woodgrain and most of the 'engraving' above the trigger, also two small raised sections on the foregrip.
I seperated the pistol grip and foregrip by partly sawing in lines - roughly copying the Mad Max shotgun.
Then I used a flat needle file that I snapped the end off of (it now has a chisel-like tip) and started scraping in a better woodgrain pattern.
Cut off the slightly oversized trigger guard, and made a new one from aluminium strip after thinning the triggers down.
Masked off the 'wooden' areas, and hit it with some metallic silver spray paint (generic), spraying the barrels seperately, then started in on darkening down and weathering once I put th pieces back together.
I used Citadel (Games Workshop) brand black ink (tho I first tested brown ink - gave an old oiled rust colour). Copious amount added with a brush, then wiped off with Isopropyl Alcohol and paper towels.
Very messy. Went for a well used, antique look.
I then used a mix of brown and black Citadel ink on the wooden parts - directly onto the sanded plastic.
I used the brown first, then lightly rubbed it down with a sanding block, then smudged on black, then rubbed it down again lightly to bring up some of the lighter brown of the plastic (something I couldn't have done if I'd painted it).
Finally I took a shoe scuff polish bottle, and wiped down the whole gun with it, then buffed it up for a nice sheen.
Lemme know what you think.
C.
Started off with one of these:
(Image from www.kapowwe.com)
(Only difference was mine was marketed as a 'Pirate Shotgun' And came with an eyepatch. I'm wearing it now.
)And wound up with this:
Started out at about 19" long. So I cut off the stubby stock, and hacked down the barrels, so it now measures about 10" (tho it would've been a little long iff I could cut stright.).
A piece from inside the gun barrels made the 'figure 8' of the barrel tip much easier.
Also, 12 guage shells would actually fit, but I didn't go that far.
After filling the hole left by the stock (and adding a large blob of DAS type air clay for weighting the grip), I then proceded to sand off the molded woodgrain and most of the 'engraving' above the trigger, also two small raised sections on the foregrip.
I seperated the pistol grip and foregrip by partly sawing in lines - roughly copying the Mad Max shotgun.
Then I used a flat needle file that I snapped the end off of (it now has a chisel-like tip) and started scraping in a better woodgrain pattern.
Cut off the slightly oversized trigger guard, and made a new one from aluminium strip after thinning the triggers down.
Masked off the 'wooden' areas, and hit it with some metallic silver spray paint (generic), spraying the barrels seperately, then started in on darkening down and weathering once I put th pieces back together.
I used Citadel (Games Workshop) brand black ink (tho I first tested brown ink - gave an old oiled rust colour). Copious amount added with a brush, then wiped off with Isopropyl Alcohol and paper towels.
Very messy. Went for a well used, antique look.
I then used a mix of brown and black Citadel ink on the wooden parts - directly onto the sanded plastic.
I used the brown first, then lightly rubbed it down with a sanding block, then smudged on black, then rubbed it down again lightly to bring up some of the lighter brown of the plastic (something I couldn't have done if I'd painted it).
Finally I took a shoe scuff polish bottle, and wiped down the whole gun with it, then buffed it up for a nice sheen.
Lemme know what you think.
C.
