The Official Avatar Colonel Miles Quaritch "Wasp" Pistol Research Thread

[SouthPoll]

Here's an old pic I've come across.....may or may not be a certain project underway 2007, can't really confirm or deny :cool

http://flic.kr/p/8idQgu

....will be able to give a good account of construction brief soon. For now though I can say it was made to look as though it has a "break-open" action, but actually still functions as a normal revolver (i.e. cylinder flips out to the side). The ONE & ONLY hero prop can be distinguished from urethane stunt versions by the fact the rear of the trigger is "bulked out" on the later.....

 

[Raider65]

Thanks for posting the pic with the internals. That's very neat. Thanks.

 

[Wes R]

No new info? I'd love to see a kit of this made.

 

[Roy Batty]

This just became my next project. I have access to many firearms and think this would make a great prop....(or a kit). Has ANYONE gone any further w/recreating this awesome weapon?

Found this in ref to the DAN WESSON.....

(Avatar) - "WASP Gun" - Custom Break-open Revolver - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

 

[Noeland]

Well, for anybody interested in this subject still, ISS made the firing version on a GP100, so says the man from ISS in this video from our own RPF hosts:

Movie Prop Guns Tour at Independent Studio Services (ISS) Part 2 - YouTube

You can see, pretty clearly in this screen grab that they hid the ability to have the cylinder swing out, and the extractor to work, in the build. They did a fantastic job.

 

[SouthPoll]

That's a great deal of mis-information I'm afraid.

Interesting video, but it's NOT a GP100 under there, it's the Dan Wesson as mentioned in my post above. Note also that he never actually states "they" (the ISS) made the weapon, just that the "film and TV" industry did. It may in fact BE the hero weapon from the film, which was blank-fire capable, and ISS may even own it.... it certainly looks identical and I have no idea of the politics or ownership of the hero weapon post production....however, I MADE THE PROP. From sawing off the hammer, to drilling & taping the grub screws that hold on the CNC machined alloy casings surrounding the real weapon, to the "fantastic job" of hiding the reload mechanism (thanks btw, it was not easy).

I am happy to answer any questions anyone may have in order to clear up any remaining ambiguities ;-)

Cheers

D

 

[Noeland]

Well, I'm not trying to argue with you by posting this. The gun pictured above, the one in the video in ISS inventory is a GP-100 and not a Dan Wesson revolver. I own a GP-100, and that revolver in the vid matches it. From the trigger, to the release, to the direction of the notches in the cylinder, to the pins in the frame.

Please, no offense, I'm going to take the word of a staff member of ISS. They have, in this video, and in a show that aired on wednesday night, a great deal of the firing weapons from Avatar in their inventory. Not just this one.

BTW: I'm not disputing that the gun pictured earlier in the thread is a Dan Wesson, or that you built that gun. That gun does not match what is in ISS inventory.

 

[Noeland]

Just to be clear: These are not the same gun.

The Dan Wesson is on the bottom, the Ruger is on the top.

 

[gemtooth]

Did anyone notice that the laser/flashlight mounted under the barrel would prevent the gun from opening all the way