Post your first prop!

[Mercury]

Here are a few of my 1st props that I have pics to. Built during the late 80s into the 90s. The Han/Luke blaster built on a Mauser cap gun. The pic shows it many years old and in bad shape but it originally had a Tasco scope mounted to a door chain bracket with a space gun nozzle that resembles the one from the movie. The rest are my 1st true scratch builds I made out of wood that I really considered to be prop replicas and not just role playing toys. I still have all of them except for the toy Mauser and they have taken a beating in storage over the years and parts have disappeared.

 

[whoami11]

Keep it up guys! And thank you for sharing!

-Ryan

 

[Valdez]

My first was a Don Post 95 Boba Fett helmet. When I was a kid seeing this thing was stupid awesome. Spent all my time earning money to pay for half. Mom paid the other.
Still have it, although it has seen better days.

 

[Room8]

Don't have it anymore, but my first prop was a Logan's Run Sandman gun from Marco Enterprises.

 

[Mikehazard]

The first replica prop I made was Indy's lighter I hand painted and sealed it with epoxy but the epoxy part fell off recently

 

[shmeee]

The first real prop replica I built was a 1:1 proton pack made entirely of wood. I did very well with the dimensions but it's heavy as hell. Still have it.

 

[buhatkj]

I built a replica of Millie's gun from the anime Trigun for my wife to use as a prop for her costume of that character for Otakon in 2006 I think it was. It was made out of a cap gun, a bunch of carboard mailing tubes, foamboard, and lots of hot glue
Unfortunately I left it in the car after we got back from the con, and the hot glue melted in the hot sun, and all that was left was a mangled pile of glue-covered junk on my car seat!

 

[rosskow]

my first prop/replica is current undergoing production, a 1:1 pep boba fett helmet

 

[GyozaMaster78]

A few props from my collection in Cosplay:

Zombie Highschool (Anime related)

Ghost in the Shell (Kusanagi) visor etc

Trigun (Wolfwood's Cross Punisher) functional weapon compartments

Lot's more to be commissioned to make hopefully in the future!

 

[Replicator]

I made this when I was in 9th grade. I'm in 11th now.
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[Sean]

Replicator I can't see I pic.very much interested.this is by far not my first build.but its the first one I started taking pics of.never got to finish this one...

 

[DanielS]

My first prop ever (which took me YEARS to get) is my MR Mace Windu EpII Limited Edition Lightsaber hilt replica
mmmmm, I love it ^-^

Though I've managed to gain quite the collection during the last cupple of months
But that's for another time and another thread

/D

 

[TridCloudwalker]

My first screen used prop was a pair of screen used background spiders from Arachnophobia I bought at MGM back in 1991 when I was 14ish. If I remember correctly, these were $1 - $5 each, foreground spiders were $10, "hero" spiders were $25, and wine bottles were $90 vac formed plastic.

The first replica prop I ever made from scratch was a custom hardware saber in 1997:

First prop kit I ever bought was either a Klingon Disruptor (it's in broken pieces right now, so I don't have a photo yet), or the Alien 3 Halcyon Facehugger kit somewhere around 1993ish (can't remember which came first):

Might have also been the chestburster:

However my very very first prop replica ever was a 4" long green piece of wood from a set of blocks that were bought for me and my brother to play with. I used to put the opening credit music on the 12" record of the Superman II soundtrack and pretend it was the power crystal, while dressed in my Superman pajamas.

 

[Laser Brain]

Mine was very easy to make. I just dressed the first real MPP that I'd found, back in June/July 2000, when I first joined the RPF.

 

[division 6]

Mine was a custom saber made from a 2 cell Heiland.

 

[Organic Mechanic]

Very first prop, the one that got me on the replica prop kick? Hmmm...

I think it would have to be my trusty old "Red Fat Bat"

It pulled double duty as a lightsaber and Hawk the Slayer's sword. (Imagine that thing shoved down the back of a 5 yr old's shirt.)

More recently though, I started making 'decent' replicas. My first was a set of Wolverine claws for my '09 Halloween costume. Not so much a movie replica though, I tried to make a set of claws that made sense length and shape wise.

Here's a silly slideshow video I made of myself wearing them.

Crowverine - YouTube

 

[Dutchman]

Freddy Krueger glove, this thing goes way back. Makes me realise how time flies...

 

[jedi5150]

My first attempt at a 'REAL' prop replica was back in 1999. I made a graflex-ish lightsaber from a sink tube. There weren't any real plans or drawings that I could find at the time so I freehanded the 'S' curve with a sharpie then had at it with a dremel.
It's long gone, but it was a HUGE hit at the line for Episode I! Soon after I discovered the RPF, and along with that, all of the inaccuracies in the saber.... the rest, as they say, is history.