District 9 "Arc Gun

[jediscout72]

Heres some screens of the other weapons in the film.

 

[MooCriket]

Cool Beans! Thanks For Posting Those Jediscout72:thumbsup

 

[DeadDingo]

there are so many different guns for this film. I really must start saving for them all

 

[Getoninja]

A little teaser for you. Better pictures and a showoff thread a little later.

Oh and before a get flooded with PMs.. it's the one off eBay, it's not for sale and no I'm not going to offer kits. :lol

-G

dude your so lucky, cant wait for the thread.

I'll give you 500 cans of "premium" cat food for it:lol

:lol

 

[SithLord]

I was comparing the screen shot from the trailer and the promo shot... why are the colors different? The trailer arc gun has orange bands.

I don't know why, but somehow Sharlto Copley reminds me of Peter Sellers....

 

[MooCriket]

LOL:lol Inspector Cousteu:thumbsup I do see it!

 

[Mike J.]

Good eye, SithLord.

I suspect the reason they don't match is because the publicity stills may have been taken either before or after filming, rather than during filming. If so, they could have been stuck with whatever prop was available. That would also explain the odd gun in the pic where Wikus is standing next to an MNU APC. I suspect that gun is a redressed Covenant carbine from the Halo shorts, which were also done by Weta & Neil Blomkamp.


-Mike J.

 

[Patattack]

I suspect the reason they don't match is because the publicity stills may have been taken either before or after filming, rather than during filming. If so, they could have been stuck with whatever prop was available.

I disagree. Check out the details in those two pictures, like the flyaway ripped bit on the plastic bag over his hand, the rocks on the ground behind him, and the little curved piece of cardboard in front of him. They look identical to me! I would be very surprised to learn that these pictures weren't taken at the same time.

My guess is they just wanted the gun to be "punchier", visually, so they did a little color correction. I don't think that's a particularly difficult thing for filmmakers to do, especially since it would simply be a matter of replacing the solid gray markings with solid orange.

 

[nickytea]

My guess is they just wanted the gun to be "punchier", visually, so they did a little color correction.

I think it's more likely the publicity pic was toned down.

 

[zorg]

the middle gun is the one christopher uses when storming the building

 

[Patattack]

I think it's more likely the publicity pic was toned down.

Hm...and that would only need a bit of desaturation! You're right, that does seem more likely.

 

[nickytea]

Hm...and that would only need a bit of desaturation! You're right, that does seem more likely.

Plus, looking at the high res version of that picture, there's still some orange kick on the spiked "barrel" part of the gun, and the orange sections are roughly cut out for the desaturated.

 

[Mike J.]

New (to me) Arc Gun ref pic:

http://outnow.ch/Movies/2009/District9/Bilder/

Not great, and pretty much the same as we've seen before, but ... eh. Every little bit helps.


-Mike J.

 

[MooCriket]

Anyone else attempt to make one of these? The guy here: http://fritzthegreat.deviantart.com/art/District-9-Arc-Gun-138021215 did an outstanding job using wood and sheet metal

 

[darthwhitey]

that is really cool!...what a great find

 

[Chronos]

He made that?! It looks great!

Gonna have to try it myself...

 

[wuher da brewer]

I'd love to try this build. I still say this was the best science fiction movie since The Matrix. I wish I knew where to start.

 

[ghostryder]

http://gizmodo.com/5422546/diy-district-9-arc-gun-looks-******-until-you-consider-what-it-represents

 

[ghostryder]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/21/exclusive-creating-the-alien-weapons-in-district-9/

 

[ghostryder]