Who want's Rayguns?

[the DOCTOR]

Just realised that I haven't shared some of the Rayguns I've made over the last few years!

Here's one I made for the wife of the author Robert Rankin, he calls her 'Lady Raygun', so it's the "Lady" Raygun:

Started out as a shaped piece of 8mm acrylic, with a barrel made from an acrylic wineglass, along with the ball from a massage ball and a strange bulb-shaped plastic vase.

Added a fin from in 8mm acrylic, cut cooling slots and holes in the barrel, with an inner barrel from made from a disposable champagne glass, and within that, a box for the batteries that power the LEDs that illuminate the ball and two flicker LEDs in the barrel.

Well, there should be more pictures, and more Rayguns, but Photobucket is being an arse; I'll try again later.

 

[IndyFanChuck]

Holy cow that is incredible! Great work! Thats a fun gun! See what I did there? FUN. GUN. LOL

 

[choanata]

I love it. I've considered making a ray gun before because you have so much freedom for what it can look like and still be a ray gun, but seeing this, now I HAVE to make one. That massage ball thing looks amazing. Really cool prop!

 

[skyconlb]

Thats really damn cool. I hope to see more!

 

[the DOCTOR]

Right, found a way around Photobuckets brainfart!

Found an old wooden box to make into a case, added a velvet lining:

And a set of tools:

EDIT: oh, this one has a label in the lid as well:

 

[Snow Builder]

Gorgeous. Got any more?

 

[the DOCTOR]

Yes, I have more!

After completing the above Raygun, Robert Rankin commisioned one for himself, he wanted something a bit more 'manly', so I came up with the COMMODORE:

From left to right: acrylic ball, styrene dish (made from the cut outs of the portholes on the main body), a brass vase, an acrylic wine glass, an 80mm acrylic Xmas bauble, and a 60mm acrylic Xmas bauble; the handle is a piece of turned hardwood, and the various other parts are styrene sheet and lots of filler.

And here it is, mostly finished, being fitted in the antique cutlery canteen box I found- as you can see, it has a plasma ball in the centre, and the acrylic tip lights up red when you pull the trigger.

This one also has the velvet lined case, and a series of accessories, including a hip-flask of 'liquid plasma', to charge the gun via the filler cap on the mid-barrel:

And a label in the lid:

Power dial:

Filler cap:

 

[jessec]

Very creative!

A build thread would be loved by Many!!

 

[benhs1898]

Haha, I saw that first pic and was like, "that's not a raygun" then I scrolled down a little and was like "holy crap, what a great raygun!"

Great work on those. Weta would be proud.

 

[El Diablo]

those are awesome! especially love the plasma one, the idea of the liquid plasma hip flask is genius
does it have it's own power supply or do you have to plug it into the mains?

 

[MrPinski]

I want to build one now!!!! Wowee!

 

[the DOCTOR]

those are awesome! especially love the plasma one, the idea of the liquid plasma hip flask is genius
does it have it's own power supply or do you have to plug it into the mains?

About three years ago, one of the online gadget shops had, in their January sale, mini USB-powered plasma globes, for £1.49 each. So I bought ten.

That's one of them, powered by a 9 volt battery.

 

[familyman]

Firstly awesome work, I love the designs. secondly, Can I ask what you use to glue all those different types of material to each other?.

 

[Zombie Killer]

Love the plasma ball one, reminds me of the plasma rifle and pistol i did for the Weta contest last year.

 

[Svelbjorn]

That is really amazing, inspiring work. The accompanying documents are equally fun.

 

[BLASTER]

Cool stuff. The accessories really put them over the top. The little red oiler and tools are great. :thumbsup

Blaster

 

[Galactus]

Wow, beautiful ray guns.

 

[TripdWyr]

Amazing! I agree, would love to see a build log, also do you have a main site, or something on Facebook we can follow for updates?

 

[jasonw2112]

Really nice looking guns! They have a very authentic look to them! I really like the tool kits
as well, nice added touch!

 

[TheSt.LouisKid]

Wonderful to see you doing your own work. I wish more people would take on projects like this. There is a certain satisfaction in making something yourself instead of just buying something as a means to an end. Very zapular.