Re: collection showoff! - 1:1 Iron Man WIP, leap of faith and Adam West bust
It usually takes me a little while to put up an update after I get something... but for this Dredd Lawgiver Mk II, I could not wait.
It has to be the most enjoyable prop of my entire collection. Before, when stressed, I would go down and squeeze off a few rounds of my KSC robocop gun. (I'm not really a gun guy so replicas are really where I draw the line)
SDStudios has put together one of the most complicated, well thought out replicas I have ever held.
Let me summarize - You pick up the gun and turn it on via a semi hidden switch on the bottom. The gun will not fire yet. Just like in the movies, it needs to recognize your "DNA" and confirm you're a judge, so you press a hidden switch under the gun grip. When you're holding the gun the switch hits right at the base of your thumb so it's easy to press, but if you don't know it's there it'll never activate.
Once activated you'll get an electronic "twang" that it's loaded. You push the switch again and you can cycle through different rounds as per the movie (grenade, rapid fire, flare, double wammy, armor piercing.. etc)
When firing the lights on the side of the gun actually deplete. When you exhaust all of your rounds the gun actually states "Lethal rounds exhausted." If you haven't exhausted all of your rounds and cycle to another round, the gun will actually remember how many rounds you used, and will go back to said number when you cycle back to it again.
The only way to "reload" the rounds will be to pull out the magazine and reinsert it.
Plector Labs created the electronics for the kit - seriously - really really well thought out.
So electronics aside, the gun is really well put together. Steve did an amazing job adding whatever details he could to give this prop a "real gun" feel. The grips are rubber, the resin parts are clean as can be and it's all expertly crafted around a gas blowback airsoft gun. The little finishing details really make all the difference, like the real glass lens in the front, nice Judge emblem on the side... which by the way is the cleanest rendition of the judge emblem I have ever seen on a Lawgiver replica.
I've seen a lot of lawgivers in my day and just seeing a nice clean emblem on the side of the gun, like it was actually stamped into metal, really shows the commitment that Steve put into this.
I know Steve put a lot of work into researching this and putting this together. It's nothing short of amazing.
Thanks so much Steve - thanks to you I have some of the greatest movie gun replicas ever.
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