Mass Effect 3 M-25 Hornet Sub Machine Gun
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zanderwitaz
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The life of a hornet, part 4.
I used PVC to make the rounds on the rear of the "carrying handle"
and then the voids were covered in styrene.
Heres some kind of detail made carefully in styrene
Finishing up the beveling on the front end:
More styrene details
The priming adventure
First pass, lookin good!
Just about done, I left the hard part for last. The little dimples on the sides, and the annoying little circular inserts
the dimples seem to angle in on a plain from the back, and turn into fillets as they meet the forward edge of the recess. I decided, of course, to use styrene. I made little risers, and then made little templates to cut the sheets.
To acheive the greatest mating surface area, I dremeled the little edge of the styrene to meet the angle it rests at.
Heres a view installed, looking down the side
Fun.
A few more passes. Did this on both sides, mind you. Kind of hard to keep the fillet constant.
You can hardly tell the dimple is there (1/8th inch deep, just like the design) but it was worth it. Heres a picture of the first screw plug insert.
Masking the grip. Getting much faster at cutting custom masking strips.
Orange stripe thingie. If you have one of these near your magwell, you might want to get it checked out.
Last circles cut out on a scroll saw, then sanded. The thin styrene ring was dremeled.
I've never seen the top of the magazine removed, and I think mass effect guns fire conventional rounds nowadays so I decided to have a modern looking magazine tip. (its removable)
I modeled it after an MP5. Styrene.
Stencil drafting
Painted and weathered. I took too much off this side, so I re-did it.
CAM aircraft lettering decal set. Works pretty good for the little stuff.
Done!
My friend Kai who goes by kommissar here connected me with rana mcanear, who you might have seen around the cons dressed up as Samara. They modeled the in game character after her, so its as canon as it gets! I loaned her the hornet for a cross-promotion.
On the left is Corey Gaspur, lead combat designer of bioware at sdcc 2012. The next day I shipped it to Eric Jarman so he can cast it and run around nekked with it. Man, everyone gets to enjoy it but me!
I used PVC to make the rounds on the rear of the "carrying handle"
and then the voids were covered in styrene.
Heres some kind of detail made carefully in styrene
Finishing up the beveling on the front end:
More styrene details
The priming adventure
First pass, lookin good!
Just about done, I left the hard part for last. The little dimples on the sides, and the annoying little circular inserts
the dimples seem to angle in on a plain from the back, and turn into fillets as they meet the forward edge of the recess. I decided, of course, to use styrene. I made little risers, and then made little templates to cut the sheets.
To acheive the greatest mating surface area, I dremeled the little edge of the styrene to meet the angle it rests at.
Heres a view installed, looking down the side
Fun.
A few more passes. Did this on both sides, mind you. Kind of hard to keep the fillet constant.
You can hardly tell the dimple is there (1/8th inch deep, just like the design) but it was worth it. Heres a picture of the first screw plug insert.
Masking the grip. Getting much faster at cutting custom masking strips.
Orange stripe thingie. If you have one of these near your magwell, you might want to get it checked out.
Last circles cut out on a scroll saw, then sanded. The thin styrene ring was dremeled.
I've never seen the top of the magazine removed, and I think mass effect guns fire conventional rounds nowadays so I decided to have a modern looking magazine tip. (its removable)
I modeled it after an MP5. Styrene.
Stencil drafting
Painted and weathered. I took too much off this side, so I re-did it.
CAM aircraft lettering decal set. Works pretty good for the little stuff.
Done!
My friend Kai who goes by kommissar here connected me with rana mcanear, who you might have seen around the cons dressed up as Samara. They modeled the in game character after her, so its as canon as it gets! I loaned her the hornet for a cross-promotion.
On the left is Corey Gaspur, lead combat designer of bioware at sdcc 2012. The next day I shipped it to Eric Jarman so he can cast it and run around nekked with it. Man, everyone gets to enjoy it but me!
Streetrocks
Member
Is there anything you don't do well? It's beautiful! Just like everything else you have done.
C0mmand3rC0dy
Sr Member
So the question is when do we get to buy copies of these :love
twitte0king
New Member
Yo guys!! i am new to rpf!! i know this thread is a few years old, but i recently got interested in this prop!
I have seen 2 builds, they are made of MDF and foam respectively. One of which is featured earlier in this thread.
i saw a foam build on facebook, which featured this pic,
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f6/28/39/f628390a54afcfe9d3ed518807d85d78.jpg
a blue print with a looks-like 16 oz fanta for scale, i assume a fanta to be 212.2 mm tall from this site:
http://royalvendors.com/186-16-oz-fanta-knob-lw-bottle/
i scale the blue print accordingly: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/1f/a3/261fa318327549dedeea59b97e895af7.jpg
no money or access to MDF and foam plus their their tools. I wanna do a 3d printed version of this! i started by finding the original game asset, and i did on deviantart, it was so lowpoly. i have rebuilt a high-poly model in blender and maya as seen here.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/58/68/66/5868664f4a6df4ff049b1e9873b941ee.jpg
i have printed a few test pieces in pla, look okay so far. any thought guys? should i open a new thread instead?
I have seen 2 builds, they are made of MDF and foam respectively. One of which is featured earlier in this thread.
i saw a foam build on facebook, which featured this pic,
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f6/28/39/f628390a54afcfe9d3ed518807d85d78.jpg
a blue print with a looks-like 16 oz fanta for scale, i assume a fanta to be 212.2 mm tall from this site:
http://royalvendors.com/186-16-oz-fanta-knob-lw-bottle/
i scale the blue print accordingly: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/1f/a3/261fa318327549dedeea59b97e895af7.jpg
no money or access to MDF and foam plus their their tools. I wanna do a 3d printed version of this! i started by finding the original game asset, and i did on deviantart, it was so lowpoly. i have rebuilt a high-poly model in blender and maya as seen here.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/58/68/66/5868664f4a6df4ff049b1e9873b941ee.jpg
i have printed a few test pieces in pla, look okay so far. any thought guys? should i open a new thread instead?
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