I was messaging about text for the the 'brass plate' and I prob should have included a lot more context, so apologies. If you haven't received a message yet it's because I stopped after receiving some quizzical replies and thought I would link this post to further messages. I've mentioned this before somewhere in the thread but never went into details.
So here it is:
This is the airsoft Glock Gen 3 used in the original Dredd 2012 Lawgiver:
See that little flat part on the grip? That's not on a real Glock Gen 3.
So here's where you get to the interesting part of replicating a prop. Do you just add the blank spot? I mean, it's just an incidental and really has no bearing on the lawgiver. Or do you use it as an opportunity? So in this case I added 'LAWGIVER' to the space:
Oh, and the other side had the Glock logo, which is not only trademarked but sorta gets into replica territory. This also means that I'm replicating pointless things that reduce the immersion so I did this:
It's not like you see either of the grip details in the movie, and this makes it look a lot more like something issued by the Grand Hall of Justice imho.
But this arose another opportunity to add something cool in the run, Lawgivers are encoded to the user, so why not make it a little more personal? So I decided to use it as a place to mount a personalized brass plate:
The text here is just extruded for readability but on the plates I'm making I will be using a diamond etching bit to engrave the text in real brass that I will inset into the space.
If you're looking for ideas the canon thing to do would be your last name or the last name of a Judge you're going as. I'm going with PATCH, my last name. So DREDD would be good, you can also just go with LAWGIVER if you want to use it as a place to identify the prop. I can fit 11 characters on there before readability drops so go nuts!
If you really don't want it, you can leave it as is, but obv the build team Craig(code) Spidey74 , Paul(machinist) BeakZ , and I(models/electronics, and yet another Chris btw) def want one on ours
Hope this provides some context!
So here it is:
This is the airsoft Glock Gen 3 used in the original Dredd 2012 Lawgiver:
See that little flat part on the grip? That's not on a real Glock Gen 3.
So here's where you get to the interesting part of replicating a prop. Do you just add the blank spot? I mean, it's just an incidental and really has no bearing on the lawgiver. Or do you use it as an opportunity? So in this case I added 'LAWGIVER' to the space:
Oh, and the other side had the Glock logo, which is not only trademarked but sorta gets into replica territory. This also means that I'm replicating pointless things that reduce the immersion so I did this:
It's not like you see either of the grip details in the movie, and this makes it look a lot more like something issued by the Grand Hall of Justice imho.
But this arose another opportunity to add something cool in the run, Lawgivers are encoded to the user, so why not make it a little more personal? So I decided to use it as a place to mount a personalized brass plate:
The text here is just extruded for readability but on the plates I'm making I will be using a diamond etching bit to engrave the text in real brass that I will inset into the space.
If you're looking for ideas the canon thing to do would be your last name or the last name of a Judge you're going as. I'm going with PATCH, my last name. So DREDD would be good, you can also just go with LAWGIVER if you want to use it as a place to identify the prop. I can fit 11 characters on there before readability drops so go nuts!
If you really don't want it, you can leave it as is, but obv the build team Craig(code) Spidey74 , Paul(machinist) BeakZ , and I(models/electronics, and yet another Chris btw) def want one on ours
Hope this provides some context!
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