Jim West's Pistol - Wild Wild West

[PHArchivist]

The movie...

Most folks diss on this film most of the time.

But I find it entertaining, and Bo Welch offers a rich and quirky, if not eccentric production design that - in my opinion - makes it a fun film to watch for us prop hounds.

Plus you get to see Selma Hyack's ass! :love

Wil Smith's pistol - over designed and unrealsitic as it may be - is unique and intriguing. I realized that the plastic model pistol I had picked up years ago is the same model firearm as Smith's. So I gave it a go.

This prop replica received about 75% the attention it should have. Again, it is a plastic model. Someone else had built it eons ago, and I redid it. Not all seam lines are perfectly filled, I could have used Alclad for a better silver, I could have weighted it for more fun.

But it is what it is - a fun side project on what I think was a fun movie pistol.

Here are the pics...

 

[PHArchivist]

The last image is my budding collection of western firearms.

 

[Garthok]

Nice job, I think it's a great looking pistol, and it's suprising just how well it still ties in with your Western collection given how it's got such a modern take to it. I also liked the movie. I have wanted to make one of those magnetized collars they wore since I first saw it.

 

[PHArchivist]

Thanks bud!

 

[FrogmanStudio]

Very nice! I too, find the movie very entertaining, it's just fun to watch. To be honest, I never paid much attention to that pistol, and didn't even realize it was all that different from others of the period.

Very nicely done!

 

[Grey]

I'm pretty sure the frame and barrel on the film prop had intricate engravings. I'm guessing you probably already knew that but tossing it out there, it makes it a wholly different prop.

 

[Mercury]

I like it! :thumbsup

 

[PHArchivist]

I'm pretty sure the frame and barrel on the film prop had intricate engravings. I'm guessing you probably already knew that but tossing it out there, it makes it a wholly different prop.

I think it may have too. Frame and cylinder, that is... But I was using standard def DVD for reference and it was hard to tell. And again, this project didn't 100% the TLC is needed or should have received.

Maybe an engraved Denix for the next one...?

 

[PHArchivist]

Very nice! I too, find the movie very entertaining, it's just fun to watch. To be honest, I never paid much attention to that pistol, and didn't even realize it was all that different from others of the period.

Very nicely done!

Most of the silver versus "blued" metal is acceptable in that there are interchangeable parts. Except for the barrel tip. My version is accurate to the film (minus the engraving), and in the real world, I have no idea how or why the tip would be silver like that.

 

[dbuck]

I like the display a lot. Could use one of the Eastwood snake grip guns, but that's just me.

 

[Grey]

I think it may have too. Frame and cylinder, that is... But I was using standard def DVD for reference and it was hard to tell. And again, this project didn't 100% the TLC is needed or should have received.

Maybe an engraved Denix for the next one...?

 

[Forsaken]

Hated the movie.
Love your pistol replica.

Al

 

[Roger Ramjet]

Hated the movie.
Love your pistol replica.

Al

Ditto....

 

[Jodd]

cool thing

 

[PHArchivist]

:confused Wow! Not sure if ANY scenes in the SD DVD reveal that level of detail...! Thanks for posting, and I stand corrected on the barrel.

I like the display a lot. Could use one of the Eastwood snake grip guns, but that's just me.

Me too!

 

[PHArchivist]

cool thing

Thing...? :rolleyes