Noeland
Master Member
OK, posted this over at propsummit, and figured I'd share the love here too.
This project started as a throw away from a friend who didn't want this resin marco recast. It didn't have any greeblies, no triggers, or bolt handle, or anything like that.
My friend Ryan got it off ebay for $10 or some such, and left it my house, and the next time I asked him about it, he just just said to toss it, he didn't want it.
I kept it in a box, and figured I'd throw it away eventually, but then as the weather started getting cooler here in ATL, I wanted a project to use to get back into the building groove.
A project that I could destroy if it didn't work out, no big loss. So I started working with this giant piece of resin!
First order of business was to add on a correct mag housing extension. I also had a bit of an outline for the direction I was going with this, sort of a follow up to my "black and silver" blaster.
I have some more progress pics to upload, but this is where she stands right now. Needs weathering, touching up, and I have some details to add. But all in all I'm happy I didn't throw her out!
I painted the grip by hand, trying to achieve something like an exotic black ivory. Once I was done with the brush giving it a pearled marbled kind of look I gave it three layers of acrylic high gloss clear coat. In the end I'm happiest with the grip so far, but I still have some parts to add!
Lots of cutting and bending of aluminum going on, and I used a gutted Marvy "lepen" for the sight rod. Two metal USP triggers, and a magazine from an airsoft shotgun.
I chopped the gun up into 3 section, dremelled out the barrel and replaced it with clear PVC piping. That's probably my only regret, that I should have used a bigger tube for the barrel.
I'll post more pics as I finish her up this week, and I'll get around to posting some other works I've been doing too, now that the weather is cooling off 'round here.
Noeland----------------------
This project started as a throw away from a friend who didn't want this resin marco recast. It didn't have any greeblies, no triggers, or bolt handle, or anything like that.
My friend Ryan got it off ebay for $10 or some such, and left it my house, and the next time I asked him about it, he just just said to toss it, he didn't want it.
I kept it in a box, and figured I'd throw it away eventually, but then as the weather started getting cooler here in ATL, I wanted a project to use to get back into the building groove.
A project that I could destroy if it didn't work out, no big loss. So I started working with this giant piece of resin!
First order of business was to add on a correct mag housing extension. I also had a bit of an outline for the direction I was going with this, sort of a follow up to my "black and silver" blaster.
I have some more progress pics to upload, but this is where she stands right now. Needs weathering, touching up, and I have some details to add. But all in all I'm happy I didn't throw her out!
I painted the grip by hand, trying to achieve something like an exotic black ivory. Once I was done with the brush giving it a pearled marbled kind of look I gave it three layers of acrylic high gloss clear coat. In the end I'm happiest with the grip so far, but I still have some parts to add!
Lots of cutting and bending of aluminum going on, and I used a gutted Marvy "lepen" for the sight rod. Two metal USP triggers, and a magazine from an airsoft shotgun.
I chopped the gun up into 3 section, dremelled out the barrel and replaced it with clear PVC piping. That's probably my only regret, that I should have used a bigger tube for the barrel.
I'll post more pics as I finish her up this week, and I'll get around to posting some other works I've been doing too, now that the weather is cooling off 'round here.
Noeland----------------------
