TheGrimPaladin
New Member
Hi all, I'm quite new to the RPF (been lurking for a while and just recently created my own account).
I have been working on this boltok for quite some time now, due to certain materials which were hard to get for me, like the old used leather. I always try to approach the budget route when I'm building things and so this one was cheaply made as well (app. 10-11$, excluding wood glue, screws, nails etc.), considering some of the stuff were funded by things given by my parents (like the leather) or just laying around.
The whole thing is pretty much made out of MDF, except for the obvious parts. The tools I used to make this were a jigsaw, multiple sanding papers with different grits, a dremmel tool and an electric drill. A very scarce amount of tools indeed, but it's all I own, sadly... I still think it turned nice nontheless.
If there are questions or feedback or whatever, please let me know!
Like pretty much every project, I started off with some blueprints.
I decided to build the gun using layers, since that seemed the easiest way for me to approach it. I cut out the 5 center layers (I cut the first one 3 times.)
I sanded and gradually added more details to the seperate layers before glueing them together.
After that, I took my time to make some seperate parts (I forgot to take a photo of the barrel and some other small parts). The last one was pretty hard, considering the locust cube thingy is only 5/8'' in width.
How it looked at this point, all put together, but not yet glued.
I cut out the needed space for the electronics and added them in.
Inserted the cube and finally glued all layers together. I also sanded it where sanding was needed and taped off everything that I didn't want to have a metallic silver coating.
I spray painted the whole thing with a basic primer and multiple layers of metallic silver.
After peeling off the tape, I spray painted the dark grey on the handle and hand painted the other parts with its wanted base colour. I chose to use silver paint as a base one basically everything other than the wooden parts, since I'll be weathering it in the end. If some layers of paint come off, I don't want the wood to show a metallic silver, but the metallic parts.
At this point, I added the 'bullets' to the gun. As I intend to have this with me a lot during future cosplays, I want it to be as durable as possible, so I opted for the non-removable kind of bullets.
I weathered the whole thing up by adding and rubbing black acrylic on and off until I was satisfied with the result. The leather strap was the last part that needed to be there and luckily a friend of mine gave me a sleeve of her used leather jacket that I could use, which was just the perfect leather.
I have been working on this boltok for quite some time now, due to certain materials which were hard to get for me, like the old used leather. I always try to approach the budget route when I'm building things and so this one was cheaply made as well (app. 10-11$, excluding wood glue, screws, nails etc.), considering some of the stuff were funded by things given by my parents (like the leather) or just laying around.
The whole thing is pretty much made out of MDF, except for the obvious parts. The tools I used to make this were a jigsaw, multiple sanding papers with different grits, a dremmel tool and an electric drill. A very scarce amount of tools indeed, but it's all I own, sadly... I still think it turned nice nontheless.
If there are questions or feedback or whatever, please let me know!
Like pretty much every project, I started off with some blueprints.
I decided to build the gun using layers, since that seemed the easiest way for me to approach it. I cut out the 5 center layers (I cut the first one 3 times.)
I sanded and gradually added more details to the seperate layers before glueing them together.
After that, I took my time to make some seperate parts (I forgot to take a photo of the barrel and some other small parts). The last one was pretty hard, considering the locust cube thingy is only 5/8'' in width.
How it looked at this point, all put together, but not yet glued.
I cut out the needed space for the electronics and added them in.
Inserted the cube and finally glued all layers together. I also sanded it where sanding was needed and taped off everything that I didn't want to have a metallic silver coating.
I spray painted the whole thing with a basic primer and multiple layers of metallic silver.
After peeling off the tape, I spray painted the dark grey on the handle and hand painted the other parts with its wanted base colour. I chose to use silver paint as a base one basically everything other than the wooden parts, since I'll be weathering it in the end. If some layers of paint come off, I don't want the wood to show a metallic silver, but the metallic parts.
At this point, I added the 'bullets' to the gun. As I intend to have this with me a lot during future cosplays, I want it to be as durable as possible, so I opted for the non-removable kind of bullets.
I weathered the whole thing up by adding and rubbing black acrylic on and off until I was satisfied with the result. The leather strap was the last part that needed to be there and luckily a friend of mine gave me a sleeve of her used leather jacket that I could use, which was just the perfect leather.
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