Low Budget Aliens M41-A Pulse Rifle

[Firespray]

I decided to step out of the Star Wars universe and into the Aliens universe a bit. I'm a big fan of the Aliens movie, and always wanted a M41-A Pulse Rifle, (because they look so darn cool) but I didn't want to spend a lot of money. So let me introduce you to my low budget, (roughly $60) Aliens M41-A Pulse Rifle.



These are the two main items I purchased for this build. All other parts were scratch built.
Airsoft Franchi SPAS12 Shotgun. $36

Airsoft Thompson M1A1 metal/plastic receiver. $8.84 (.99¢ winning bid on Ebay. Score!)


And some photos of the build.


I had actually scratch built the receiver at this point. I tore it all down and rebuilt when I found the Airsoft version.

 

[cjchiu]

Whoa! That looks fantastic!

 

[The5thElement]

Great job! Your shroud fabrication is impressive.

 

[Lear60man]

Dang kid....you nailed it.

 

[cavx]

Looks WAY more than a $60 build.

 

[madmax]

Amazing

 

[TazVader]

Great job mate. Well done!

Regards
T
A
Z


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[Treeman]

Crazy impressive work ! Good Job it looks great.

 

[Dogless]

Wow. Very clean build.

I was looking at a cheapie airsoft Thompson the other day, but your Thompson upper receiver looks much nicer than the low cost single action versions out there.

 

[Firespray]

Thanks for all the kind comments. I'm glad to have the pulse rifle finally finished. I think I spent more time figuring out how I was going to build each part, and how it was all going to fit together, than I did on the actual build itself. For me, the shroud was probably the most difficult part of the build.

Dogless - The upper and lower receiver part I bought was super nice. It was a great find. I love that the upper receiver is metal and the ejection port has that nice metallic sound when pulled back.

 

[The Schlitzie]

That thing looks really nice!

 

[Mechanized]

That is a great build, very impressive work!

 

[dmpsk8]

Great fab work. I dig it!

 

[veektohr]

I'm in awe of this build, dude. Great work!


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[pchang]

Fantastic work That is truly amazing work

 

[ed-209]

LIAR!!!! NO way you built that for $60.00!!!!
Just to prove my point...I'll send you $60.00 so you can make me one.

Seriously....amazing!!!!!
--Ed

 

[Scapey]

Excellent build! What did you use to make the shroud?

 

[joberg]

I think you've beaten every one here in terms of "Cheap but Fantastic Results"

 

[Hatefrost]

That’s amazing.