Re: Romeo + Juliet Dagger/Wanted Pistol Project
Wherefore art thou, update?
Ahem....
I have finished Mercutio's Dagger and Tybalt's Rapier :love
I kinda cheated with the Dagger. The original prop has many sections milled out of the frame of the gun. Since my KSC Taurus is transparent, the only actual cut-outs I made were on the grips. All the other 'windows' were masked, then the whole thing sprayed silver.
I'd love to make one of these using the metal gun I used for the Rapier, but I don't have the tools to cut the windows, I don't think the Dremel is going to hack it.
The mag plates on both these guns were painted with metallic pearl, which I think is an improvement on the straight white I used on Romeo's Para-Ordinance.
All of the Taurus' also have a scratch-built 'riser' on the bottom of the mag that raises the crest plates at an angle to the bottom of the magazine. On the Dagger, this is painted gold, on the other pistols, it's black.
Anyway, pics:
The Rapier is an all-metal Beretta replica, so it has a nice weight.
The whole thing was dissembled, the slide is unfortunately in two halves with, with the barrel moulded as part of it, but hey, it's a cheapy!
I used Nitro-Mors to strip the icky orange paint, not fun, but leaves you with nice, bare aluminium. I polished up the frame with wire wool, and sprayed the slide silver to get a two-tone between the top and bottom. I used a black wash to get the engraved Rapier logo high-lighted.
The extended barrel and rod are brass and aluminium pipe, the compensator is resin from a re-sculpt of the compensator from the HFC Beretta.
Finished up. I love this gun

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Next I will be attempting Benvolio's Sword 9mm, which
could be tricky
