recently I got a practically unusable resin prop gun. I tossed a few different colours onto it and 'recycled' it into a usable prop. I first painted it with a textured spray paint, then added different washes of acrylic and some graphite to make it seem metallic. now it looks kind of like a...
I just got some styrene and have been playing around with it.. great stuff. I made a 'homemade' looking gun frame out of it which has simulated hot glue welds and now working on
a flare gun prop.
for the painting I first primed them, then did a gunmetal coat. after that did a few different oil paint washes applying it into the cracks and grooves and then wiping it back out. I stipple it on after wiping it so that It doesn't leave fake looking brush strokes. after that dry brushed silver...
making a film set in the 1800s so made these for it. the one with revolving barrel is a plastic model kit I built. the other one is a complete scratch build from styrene pvc and a scrap piece of wood. painted with spray paints and weathered with oil paints and drybrushed. :)
id love to see some, and yeh its plywood that picture probably makes it look better than it does in real life but I put filler over the sides of it then scraped it off to fill the grooves, then just a few coats of primer. initially I wanted to make the whole thing from styrene but just ended up...