narutoishere
Well-Known Member
Originally I was preparing to make a Wolfenstein gun, but after seeing some guy made a quirky smart gun on youtube,
I decided to quick-build a similar version with $20 budget and any material that I could recycle during the past weekend.
I was going to stay home through the whole weekend watching world-cup, so the timing was perfect.
I didn't have those fancy tools like dremel or a well-equipped workshop with motorized sanding.
This time I documented every step with photos as I finished the whole thing within 2 days.
The foam "gun" turned out rather "ok", and I brought it to the Toronto RPF prop party on Saturday.
It would be better if I planned a bit carefully before I started. I forgot the most fundamental thing about construction -
center of gravity. It became too heavy on the drum side and the front handle could not support and it broke off,
even though the total weight was less 5 pounds.
I improvised the size and made two rectangular tubes with foam which were long enough to fit a plastic bloomstick through
them as backbone and handle bar. The length was about right in comparsion with the pulse rifle. I then patched them with
craft foamie. Details were stripped down to minimal as I made reference with some photos that I have googled. The two
triangle racks were made with leftover sidetrim from the large foam sheets. For both handles, I used a pair of foam bicycle
handles bought at Dollarama. As with the brake, I made it with foam. The magazine drum was a DVD holder; I made the cover
with foam. The muzzle was cut from a calendar tube and covered with foamie. The front handle was the bottom of the bloomstick
and its support was a plastic center-stick cut off from the DVD holder. I added "fins" to the stick to make it look like
somekind of supports.
The cocking-handle was a paper-towel tube filled with paper-towel and wrapped with foamie and I placed plastic caps from
old medicine canisters on both end (and I had a lot of empty pill canisters that I had been keeping for the District 9 gun).
The ammo counter was the same one that I printed for my pulse rifle sometime ago; I just added one more digit to 395 instead
of 95. I brushed the entire thing with a coat of mod podge and I let it dry for 2 hours in the backyard (mod podge smells
quite pleasantly actually) before I spray-painted it to black. I bought most of the materials at Dollarama (a local dollar
shop), except the large foam sheets and spray paint that I bought them at Walmart next door. I don't shop at Michaels ever;
Michaels overprices everything.
From shopping to completion (including drying and painting), it took me a weekend to finish while watching world cup.
About foam sheet, I don't understand why people would need to use hot knife to cut. Foam is so easy to cut with a pair of
sharp scissors
Purchased materials:
Large foam sheets (4 large square sheets): $9.99 (walmart)
Craft foamie (30 small sheets): $3 (dollarama)
Bicycle handles (a pack of 2): $1 (dollarama)
Bloomstick: $1 (dollarama)
Wood craft stick (a pack of 6): $1 (dollarama)
Krylon black spray paint: $3.99 (walmart)
Recycled materials:
Plastic DVD holder
Calendar tube
Papertowel tube
Cable (old power cord)
Empty tynenol bottle
Empty medicine bottles
Screws (random sizes)
Tools:
Heavy duty cutter
Heavy duty Scissors
Mod Podge (available at Walmart)
Ruler
Black sharpie (for minor touchup)
Hot glue (lots of gluesticks)
Heat gun (to bend the foam)
Mini hacksaw (to cut the wooden stick)
Cutting board
Screwdriver
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More photos...
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More photos... at Toronto RPF Prop Party in June 2014 (colonial marines armour courtesy from the dalek master guy... and I have forgotten his name... sorry!)
I decided to quick-build a similar version with $20 budget and any material that I could recycle during the past weekend.
I was going to stay home through the whole weekend watching world-cup, so the timing was perfect.
I didn't have those fancy tools like dremel or a well-equipped workshop with motorized sanding.
This time I documented every step with photos as I finished the whole thing within 2 days.
The foam "gun" turned out rather "ok", and I brought it to the Toronto RPF prop party on Saturday.
It would be better if I planned a bit carefully before I started. I forgot the most fundamental thing about construction -
center of gravity. It became too heavy on the drum side and the front handle could not support and it broke off,
even though the total weight was less 5 pounds.
I improvised the size and made two rectangular tubes with foam which were long enough to fit a plastic bloomstick through
them as backbone and handle bar. The length was about right in comparsion with the pulse rifle. I then patched them with
craft foamie. Details were stripped down to minimal as I made reference with some photos that I have googled. The two
triangle racks were made with leftover sidetrim from the large foam sheets. For both handles, I used a pair of foam bicycle
handles bought at Dollarama. As with the brake, I made it with foam. The magazine drum was a DVD holder; I made the cover
with foam. The muzzle was cut from a calendar tube and covered with foamie. The front handle was the bottom of the bloomstick
and its support was a plastic center-stick cut off from the DVD holder. I added "fins" to the stick to make it look like
somekind of supports.
The cocking-handle was a paper-towel tube filled with paper-towel and wrapped with foamie and I placed plastic caps from
old medicine canisters on both end (and I had a lot of empty pill canisters that I had been keeping for the District 9 gun).
The ammo counter was the same one that I printed for my pulse rifle sometime ago; I just added one more digit to 395 instead
of 95. I brushed the entire thing with a coat of mod podge and I let it dry for 2 hours in the backyard (mod podge smells
quite pleasantly actually) before I spray-painted it to black. I bought most of the materials at Dollarama (a local dollar
shop), except the large foam sheets and spray paint that I bought them at Walmart next door. I don't shop at Michaels ever;
Michaels overprices everything.
From shopping to completion (including drying and painting), it took me a weekend to finish while watching world cup.
About foam sheet, I don't understand why people would need to use hot knife to cut. Foam is so easy to cut with a pair of
sharp scissors
Purchased materials:
Large foam sheets (4 large square sheets): $9.99 (walmart)
Craft foamie (30 small sheets): $3 (dollarama)
Bicycle handles (a pack of 2): $1 (dollarama)
Bloomstick: $1 (dollarama)
Wood craft stick (a pack of 6): $1 (dollarama)
Krylon black spray paint: $3.99 (walmart)
Recycled materials:
Plastic DVD holder
Calendar tube
Papertowel tube
Cable (old power cord)
Empty tynenol bottle
Empty medicine bottles
Screws (random sizes)
Tools:
Heavy duty cutter
Heavy duty Scissors
Mod Podge (available at Walmart)
Ruler
Black sharpie (for minor touchup)
Hot glue (lots of gluesticks)
Heat gun (to bend the foam)
Mini hacksaw (to cut the wooden stick)
Cutting board
Screwdriver
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More photos...
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More photos...
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More photos... at Toronto RPF Prop Party in June 2014 (colonial marines armour courtesy from the dalek master guy... and I have forgotten his name... sorry!)
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