Halo 4 Rail Gun, aka 'The Road to Thunderpants'

[Daemon]

Definitely my largest build to date. After this I think I'm gonna do some smaller stuff for a while, maybe try doing a few props out of wood.

Anyways.

The rough block.

Halfway through the foam detailing.

Finished the detailing. Also used cardstock for the smaller details.

Railgun with black basecoat.

Railgun with primary paintjob.

Railgun with first run of drybrushing and dirt rub (combo of brown paint and wood stain).

The stencil for a painted decal. I dubbed the railgun 'Thunderpants' because the friend I was making this for was a big fan of RLM and thought it would be awesome to name the railgun after Thunderpants. Because the road to Thunderpants is filled with ****.

Part 2 of the Thunderpants stencil.

Instead of a UNSC logo, my friend wanted a decal of the emblem he uses in Halo to go here: a gas mask with a chainsaw background. This is the first part of it.

Paaaaart Twooooooo

Finished decal with a bit of wood stain smudged over it to make it match the other bits.

The rifle at 90% completion.

Me holding the (unpainted) projectile that the railgun fires (or would, if it was real).

The last few bits that I built separately since painting them when they were attached would have been tough.

The last piece to the railgun: the 'silver bullet'.

The finished railgun

And now, a few pictures I took of me standing in the woods with the finished prop.

And that's that.

 

[laserpistol76]

Not a Halo fan, but that's an awesome build. What materials did you use?

 

[Daemon]

Polystyrene (body of build)
Craft foam aka 'foamies' (detailing)
Cardstock (detailing)
A few random screws (detailing)
Pins (securing foam to the build prior to gluing in order to check how it fits on the prop, though could also be used to secure it)
Liquitex Black Paint (primer)
Various other paints (paintin')
Random can of wood stain (weathering)
A single Nerf dart (the silver bullet)