AndoShinobi
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The first one I am still attempting to answer and believe that I may be close to being able to make a semi functional model (future thread on the way when I’m back in the States).
As for the second, well, we know how THAT blaster turned out don’t we...
So... after working as a stunt man and action director/performer for nearly twenty years, the time has now come for me to make my directorial debut and for that film (a Sci-Fi Action Thriller) I have decided to attempt to create a spiritual successor to my favorite movie gun, the PKD.
My first sketch is below.
The reasoning I had when designing the blaster (and why I did not care for the new one) was that the most important thing to follow in order to produce a worthy successor had to be in following the way it was made, not just copying the exact shape and making it a bit different.
So... here goes my reasoning.
The original blaster was a mixture of an American pistol and an Austrian Rifle. The Charter Arms pistol was a revolver currently in production and the Steyr rifle was a much older design.
Being a bit of a ‘gun guy’ as I mentioned previously and knowing a thing or two about functionality,
I decided a low bore axis pistol - a modern revolver like the Chiapa Rhino or it’s older uncle, the Mateba, should be the (currently most relevant) inspiration for the base.
Being that the grip angle and several other aspects of the Italian design are very different from both the Charter Arms Bulldog and the current American offerings, I thought I would imagine a large frame Smith and Wesson equivalent (just with the barrel firing from the bottom of the cylinder) and use that as the base pistol.
For the top half, I selected a thirty to forty year old Germanic design (not Austrian but close) in the HK G3 rifle and after a bit of tinkering around with an Airsoft prop and checking some real world reference, the design came to life.
Being based in Japan for the time being (as production of the film is here) I have access to very cheap used airsoft guns that are in very good condition (the Japanese take care of their stuff) and so can go and grab a few cheap revolvers to start modifying.
And as the ‘studio franchise’ pitching process is very different here to the States, (the director literally brings EVERYTHING to the production), I am building the prototype prop weapons and armor with my own small production team before shooting a test reel and asking for lots of money
I hope that you all like the sketch, I will be posting some pictures of the build as it progresses and hopefully can share some of the pre-production process of the film with you all as well.
Please excuse my heavy text ramblings and if anyone knows how to link a picture to the thread from an iPhone, I would be most grateful if you could share that knowledge with me.
Thank you for reading and if anyone has advice/criticism/guidance I would love to hear it.
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