Concept TOS Phaser Rifle designs

[BAK55]

I've seen some very interesting designs for a phaser rifle. Some of them apply the original idea of using the modular system of the hand phaser mounted on the pistol, and the hand/pistol phaser combination mounted to a rifle for added power and range. I also love the original phaser rifle design, and got to wondering why this design hadn't been used in some manner. So I whipped up a very rough scetch of what this may look like and submit it to the community for comments.

I'd also like to see other concepts posted to this thread to gather all the neat designs others may have dreamed up.

 

[Bad Wolf]

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that's an awesome design!! I always liked the classic phaser rifle but this one is genius! you incorporated the phaser pistol into it perfectly!!

 

[OB10]

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Sweet!

 

[weber1701]

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i like that design

 

[BAK55]

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Thanks for the very kind words.

But after looking at it again, and while it looked all right, but only just "all right", I just didn't feel I had done enough. So, I decided to tweak it up to scale, added details, and throw in some color to give it more of that Matt Jeffries "feel" to it.



The barrel had been shortened for more of a carbine approach, and the "handle" shoulder stock elongated to shoulder the weapon properly. I also reversed the power slider and indicator lights. My thinking had been as one would use a bolt action of a rifle, it made more sense -in my mind anyway- that the slider should be on the right side.

 

[Maximm]

I have a phaser 1-2-3 concept you may be interested in seeing. As I am posting this from my kindle I do not have access to my files at the moment but will post in the next day or two.

 

[Maximm]

Took some liberties to update the type 1 and 2 phasers but the same concept would work for TOS design. Check out the 10x power pack on the barrel grip and the LH / RH side handle for you lefties out there.

 

[Maximm]

Also is a Phaser 1.5 kind of a go between the Phaser 1 & 2

 

[BAK55]

Just an update to this old thread, I had been thinking about my concept and how it could be built.

I had to make some major adjustments for the position of the hand grip for allowance to grip it properly, the shoulder mount shortened from the last design, and had decided on streamlining the overall design somewhat. But had come up with something I can create and have been working on.

I've decided on using the crapizoid Rubies Phaser as my base weapon and had accurized it as much as I could to make the entire build look good for you folks.

Give me some time to finish the piece and post photos, since I have a couple of major projects this winter that will interupt my current build, plus I really want to do this right.

 

[Krel]

Has Matt Jefferies's drawings for the phaser 3 rifle ever been released? He must have designed it, the "Making of Star Trek" said that they had originally intended to sell toy phasers in three parts. The drawing of his original phaser II shows the attachment points.

David.

 

[BAK55]

He had created sketches I had found that more resembles the screen used prop-



And here's his concept sketch for the phaser pistol-



It looks like Krel is right about the attachment points. But I don't think he ever got around to making any scetches for the rifle with the pistol mounted in place. It's been years since I had read the "Making of Star Trek", but I seem to recall the decision had been made not to follow through on the rifle since they believed it would have been too "Buck Rogers".

 

[Maximm]

This is one concept.

 

[Krel]

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It looks like Krel is right about the attachment points. But I don't think he ever got around to making any scetches for the rifle with the pistol mounted in place. It's been years since I had read the "Making of Star Trek", but I seem to recall the decision had been made not to follow through on the rifle since they believed it would have been too "Buck Rogers".

I had read that, that is why they decided not to buy the WNMHGB phaser rifle, too Buck Rogers looking. Although, as a Buck Rogers fan I have never seen anything like that rifle in the comic. But then I also haven't seen many of the late 50s, early 60s Buck Rogers comics, I like mostly the 30s/40s strips with the rat-tail fined rockets and the Daisy disintegrator.

Besides the only way they could have decided that the p3 design was too "Buck Rogers", is if they had seen the p3 designs, and decided that it was too "Buck Rogers". So he must had done the p3 drawings. There, I just ran rings around you logically! Gratuitous Monty Python joke. :lol

The fact that the drawing has phaser III attachment points argues to me that he did design the p3 components. MJ was very though, and I could see him designing all three at once, even if they did decide later not to use the p3. That is how I would have done it, design it all at once, and get it out of the way. I think the drawing or drawings were done, whether or not they still exist is the question. I'm sure all of his ST artwork hasn't been published.

David.

 

[BAK55]

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Besides the only way they could have decided that the p3 design was too "Buck Rogers", is if they had seen the p3 designs, and decided that it was too "Buc Rogers". So he must had done the p3 drawings. There, I just ran rings around you logically! Gratuitous Monty Python joke. :lol
David.

Thanks for the chuckle.:thumbsup

I have built the "cradle", as I call it, and mounting parts have been completed for the rear portion of the pistol mount plus the barrel of the rifle. I'm having a bit of spacing trouble that needs further thought for the speaker I want to mount into the forward part of this project since I want both light and sound effects for the full "WOW" factor. I had canniblized a Playmates Phaser Pistol for the electronics to use in the rifle. My plan is to use both electronic systems for the Rubies Phaser Pistol and the Playmates Phaser Pistol for the rifle as seperate systems so the phaser pistol can be "fired" independently from the rifle when disconnected. Which means I had installed a bypass switch into the the Rubies Phaser pistol and installed electical contact plates into the grip base. So the rifle won't be able to function without the pistol mounted into the rifle. It just seems to make sense to have it work that way.

 

[Krel]

BAK55, I like you design. Looking at Matt Jefferies p2 drawing that you posted, got me to thinking. What if the only piece he designed for the p3 was a shoulder stock of some type, maybe with some type of site and an extra power pack? The only p3 attachment points shown are at the rear and the power pack. It is said in the book that the reason for adding pieces to the phaser was so that they could market a toy of it. IDEAL was selling their U.N.C.L.E. gun by the truck load, so a modular toy design made sense, you could sell it as a set, or in pieces. But it would have to be easy to mold, uncomplicated, easy for the child to use and be fairly rugged, kids are rough on toys. Simple is better,as it doesn't cost as much, and doesn't frustrate the child, which would cause their parents to harass all concerned.

Look at the changes that 20th Century fox did to the RMECO Monkey division toys to make them into LASERs. It was a ploy to get REMCO to license LIS. The changes Fox did to the toys looked good, but would have also been easy modifications for REMCO to make.

David.

 

[BAK55]

Hi Krel,
Yeah, what you say is true. It has been done in many TOS phaser rifle concepts that I have seen by others, and by the movie version of "Lost in Space". And as cool as it had been, I'm attempting to make what had been desrcibed in "The Making of Star Trek". A seperate modular part that the phaser pistol mates into a rifle, but still has that original "feel" to it. If that makes any sense at all.

My build is 80% close to completion. Photos will be posted when done.

 

[BAK55]

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The concept is now a real physical piece that I can hold.

 

[spacerone]

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The concept is now a real physical piece that I can hold.

Bak55 looks very nice!:thumbsup The phaser looks like it fits perfectly into the rifle.

 

[Bad Wolf]

that is AMAZING!! it just looks so right for classic Trek! great job!!

 

[Harada357]

COOL Build - incredible design!!! GREAT !!!