Lethal Weapon - Riggs' Beretta

[PHArchivist]

I think they have silver logos, yeah.

I have a suspicion this is a discontinued item though.

THAT would be a bummer - though it'd make it easier for me, in that I wouldn't be tempted to buy another M9!

 

[Noeland]

I think Western Arms airsoft went out of business.

 

[pistol]

Your props look great, but is there a picture showing the right side of Riggs' Beretta? Are the logos on both sides of the grip painted, or just the left grip? I'm waiting on the Director's cut DVD to arrive but I don't find any pictures of the right grip on this pistol.

 

[Mr Webber]

Great thread, I had no idea the same gun was used in both those movies, two of my all time favorites.

Does anyone know where it is now and if the owner has the correct parts from both movies displayed with the piece?

 

[Kylo1]

Very late to the party but I thought I would share
my Bruni blank firer conversion to the the Riggs suicide gun. I added foil tape to the grip logos and an M5 button cap hex bolt to the magazine release button

 

[Kylo1]

 

[JOATRASH FX]

Very late to the party but I thought I would share
my Bruni blank firer conversion to the the Riggs suicide gun. I added foil tape to the grip logos and an M5 button cap hex bolt to the magazine release button

Nice!

Did you drill out and tap the mag release button?

Great idea using foil... the original is pretty rough around the medallion. The question is whether they are pale gold or silver. I do recall reading something a few years ago about Riggs' gun being from a special edition or some such that had gold medallions in the grips. At the time, I modeled up the medallions with the aim of having them printed and wax-cast, in brass, but never got around to it.

 

[Kylo1]

Nice!

Did you drill out and tap the mag release button?

Great idea using foil... the original is pretty rough around the medallion. The question is whether they are pale gold or silver. I do recall reading something a few years ago about Riggs' gun being from a special edition or some such that had gold medallions in the grips. At the time, I modeled up the medallions with the aim of having them printed and wax-cast, in brass, but never got around to it.

Thanks JOATRASH. Yeah I drilled and tapped the mag release button which was quite easy to do.
I admit I did make the foil quite neat and probably not quite large enough in diameter so I may revisit. I also was in a quandary about wether being silver or gold but with experimental use, I found that the silver foil did pick up gold accents when near a similar background colour.

 

[jts1031]

Great idea using foil... the original is pretty rough around the medallion. The question is whether they are pale gold or silver. I do recall reading something a few years ago about Riggs' gun being from a special edition or some such that had gold medallions in the grips. At the time, I modeled up the medallions with the aim of having them printed and wax-cast, in brass, but never got around to it.

What's interesting is that by the time the gun shows up in Die Hard, it doesn't have the grips with the colored emblem any longer, and all the subsequent images of the gun over the years show it with standard grips. The only Beretta grips I've ever seen with a metal emblem have been the wooden ones. I wonder if production put that on the grips just to make it pop during the suicide scene.

 

[Ron]

What's interesting is that by the time the gun shows up in Die Hard, it doesn't have the grips with the colored emblem any longer, and all the subsequent images of the gun over the years show it with standard grips. The only Beretta grips I've ever seen with a metal emblem have been the wooden ones. I wonder if production put that on the grips just to make it pop during the suicide scene.

I wonder if the armorer used colored logo grips to distinguish that particular 92 for whatever reason and the production just opted to leave it that way. Then by the time it got to the Die Hard set, they put on standard grips so it wouldn't be recognizable as the Lethal Weapon prop.

 

[Kylo1]

I have revisited the foil tape on the grip logo and made it a little larger than before which I feel is now closer to the movie prop. I also replaced the hex bolt from a black to a blued version. I am also relatively confident that the foil tape is only on the left side grip so that’s what I’m going with ( I’m going by the scene at the beginning of the film where Riggs is smoking in bed and his gun is partially showing under the pillow. Right hand side grip showing no silver) Think that’s it about done!

 

[IFA]

On the picture with Riggs holding the gun, the "paint" application on the grip logo looks horrible........don't you think it is not paint but something else and it was made to hide the Beretta brand ??? (even if everyone knew it was a Beretta gun !!!).

 

[Kylo1]

On the picture with Riggs holding the gun, the "paint" application on the grip logo looks horrible........don't you think it is not paint but something else and it was made to hide the Beretta brand ??? (even if everyone knew it was a Beretta gun !!!).

I’m convinced that it was some kind of metal tape and not paint to cover the logo. For what reason I don’t know but I don’t believe to hide “Beretta brand” as Roger mentions it by name.