Well, it's pretty far from being done, but I just couldn't resist showing it off...
I was lucky to score one of Philippes recasts of Mal's pistol from Firefly. I was luckier still to snag a set of walnut grips and brass thumbscrews from Phil himself.
Been working on it for a couple of weeks and I'm very happy with it overall. The cast was outstanding with only two major attachment/flash points. I had to heat the barrel with a hairdryer to straighten it just a smidge. All in all, this is one of the best, if not THE best, resin castings I have ever seen.
The hardest and most time consuming part so far has been removing the cast-on grips. That took many hours of patience and diligence with a dremel sporting various attachments, a good old fashioned buck knife, and a sanding block. I fitted the grips a little at a time, and marked a hole through the holes in the walnut grips scoring the resin. My proudest moment was when I drilled through the score hole on one side, and it matched the other side perfectly. Ahhh, I love it when a plan comes together.
So, here she is thus far...
In addition to the wood grips and the thumbscrews, I'm planning to replace the front sight with Brass, and I'm waiting for an old auto pistol barrel from a friend of mine that I am going to insert into the hole I've bored in the resin. Once it's done, I'm going to attempt to finish it the way they did the original prop. I'm going to paint it bronze, then paint over that with a thin coat of plum brown which I will then weather off with some 1000 grit sandpaper.
I was lucky to score one of Philippes recasts of Mal's pistol from Firefly. I was luckier still to snag a set of walnut grips and brass thumbscrews from Phil himself.
Been working on it for a couple of weeks and I'm very happy with it overall. The cast was outstanding with only two major attachment/flash points. I had to heat the barrel with a hairdryer to straighten it just a smidge. All in all, this is one of the best, if not THE best, resin castings I have ever seen.
The hardest and most time consuming part so far has been removing the cast-on grips. That took many hours of patience and diligence with a dremel sporting various attachments, a good old fashioned buck knife, and a sanding block. I fitted the grips a little at a time, and marked a hole through the holes in the walnut grips scoring the resin. My proudest moment was when I drilled through the score hole on one side, and it matched the other side perfectly. Ahhh, I love it when a plan comes together.
So, here she is thus far...
In addition to the wood grips and the thumbscrews, I'm planning to replace the front sight with Brass, and I'm waiting for an old auto pistol barrel from a friend of mine that I am going to insert into the hole I've bored in the resin. Once it's done, I'm going to attempt to finish it the way they did the original prop. I'm going to paint it bronze, then paint over that with a thin coat of plum brown which I will then weather off with some 1000 grit sandpaper.
