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« Reply #2326 on: December 16, 2009, 04:10:09 pm » |
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Beautiful piece akumabito...
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« Reply #2327 on: December 17, 2009, 03:27:33 am » |
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I'm not going to insult it ram,
but I will say
if you want the gold effects on plastic, paint isn't the way to go, I would spray paint those parts black, and then get some antique gold or gold leaf rub'n'buff from joanne's/michaels, that will look alot better and when applied with fingers will give it an automatically aged look, also, It comes in silver, too.
that is, if you wanted advice, it looks fine to me, but it does rather look painted, the gold part.
that key gun made me happy in my trousers.
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« Reply #2328 on: December 17, 2009, 03:35:07 am » |
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I kinda wanna post my weapon here....but it's a bow, not technically a gun...although it is a "bowgun"
>__> and just so you know, steampunk isn't ALWAYS victorian, well..it is, but...it doesn't always have to be, after all, not every country used the typical english victorian styles. :3
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« Reply #2329 on: December 17, 2009, 03:54:25 am » |
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« Reply #2330 on: December 17, 2009, 05:31:41 pm » |
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I kinda wanna post my weapon here....but it's a bow, not technically a gun...although it is a "bowgun"
>__> and just so you know, steampunk isn't ALWAYS victorian, well..it is, but...it doesn't always have to be, after all, not every country used the typical english victorian styles. :3
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« Reply #2331 on: December 18, 2009, 02:05:20 am » |
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I kinda wanna post my weapon here....but it's a bow, not technically a gun...although it is a "bowgun"
>__> and just so you know, steampunk isn't ALWAYS victorian, well..it is, but...it doesn't always have to be, after all, not every country used the typical english victorian styles. :3
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« Reply #2332 on: December 18, 2009, 05:38:49 pm » |
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A repeating crossbow pistol would be quite nice to see. markf |
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« Reply #2333 on: December 18, 2009, 05:55:18 pm » |
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I kinda wanna post my weapon here....but it's a bow, not technically a gun...although it is a "bowgun"
>__> and just so you know, steampunk isn't ALWAYS victorian, well..it is, but...it doesn't always have to be, after all, not every country used the typical english victorian styles. :3
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« Reply #2334 on: December 18, 2009, 06:44:52 pm » |
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This here's the big one... I call her Eunice, after my cantankerous old grandmother. Its a modded Nerf Vulcan, but I think I've gone a bit beyond the typical repaint -- and dear god, did this project involve a lot of masking! The metallic color of the main gun parts was "air mixed" onto the gun, meaning I held a can of spray paint in each hand, one of them a purple metallic and the other copper, and sprayed them both at the gun at the same time, varying the color as I went. Aside from the standard internal Nerf mods (removal of all air-flow restrictors) I simplified the lines of the gun. I wanted the gun to look more like a real machine gun and less like some kinda techno-space-blaster-thing. This basically meant grinding off most of the raised little techno-gobbins with a motor tool and filling in the recessed mechano-crap with putty. Like, 5 or 6 sticks of epoxy putty. I had to do all the grinding, puttying, and sanding to get smooth surfaces to mount the fake wood-grain on. The smooth, dark wood grain on the gun itself is the same contact-paper died with acrylic inks that I've used on previous toy mods... ...while the lighter rougher-looking wood is a thick vinyl car-wrap sticker. I used off-cuts from a project we did for the National Guard at work, so good luck finding something similar. But I wanted the tripod and ammo box to look more beat up and disposable than the gun itself, which is oiled and cared for. I added a little support bar to the tripod, too. The grips got my now-standard fake leather treatment of textured spray paint, dry brushed acrylic paint, and inks. I really kinda like the chipped up paint look I got on the "enameled" parts of the tripod and ammo box. Continuing with the logic that the gun is cared for but the extras are not, I wanted to paint it to look really beat up. I also wanted to pick a color that would like militaristic, but not remind you immediately of any particular military -- paint it olive dab, and it looks like the US Army, paint it dark gray and it looks like the Whermact, paint it tan and it looks too modern. In the end, I went with a color called "Confederate Gray," which works just fine, since I kind of do a CS thing on some of my military toys anyway. To get the chipped paint effect, I use a technique model makers call a "salt mask." Basically, what you do is mask off the area that you want to look like rough paint, and paint it silver (I used "nickel" paint, but whatever you want the base metal color to be). Then, using water to make it stick, cover the high-wear spots with salt. I used rough sea salt, but the grain of the salt will determine the size of the paint chips. The water will dissolve it somewhat, you really just have to play with it. After the salt is completely dry, you spray on the "enamel" color (meaning, whatever color you want that part to look like it was once painted) right over the salt and the model section. When the paint is totally, completely dry you just scrub off the salt with an old rag. Most will fall right off, showing you lovely craggy metal beneath; scrubbing off the last bits will give you a nice pattern of smaller surface scratches and generally distress the paint. When you're happy with it, wash off the last of the salt, let it dry again, and spray on a clear coat. After all that abuse, it isn't the strongest coat of paint in the world and will really need that protection. I added a few other little bits, like this cool looking fake power meter, made from broken watch guts, set into a cap from one of the tubes of putty, backed with a printed-out gauge face plate, and filled with epoxy: And she's even got a compass and a level in the back: She still fires, but only with a stock, unpainted ammo belt. I painted one of the ammo belts, so I could look cool and everything, but the paint-on-paint doesn't slide freely enough to keep from jamming. So I keep an un-modded belt handy for field expeditions, and a painted belt for dress inspections. I must say, Eunice was a big hit at DragonCon this year: http://utini420.blogspot.com/2009/10/dragoncon-2009-gun-babes.html |
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« Reply #2335 on: December 18, 2009, 08:09:05 pm » |
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Ut: that mod is beautiful 0_0 like epically so. I'm still not fully done with my bow, but I'll post pictures of it when I get home, I still need to take new ones, because my other pictures turned out reeeally bad. I call it the sagitarrius. trying to figure out how I can still bring arrows to a convention with it though, because...I obviously can't draw any kind of hard arrow on that thing, if it released it would shoot straight through someone :\ I'm thinking maybe....foam or something. I'm working on a little grande-esque arrow tip made of squishy memory foam  |
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« Reply #2336 on: December 18, 2009, 08:47:53 pm » |
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Liking Eunice! I suppose I am a bit biased at the moment as I have a thing about Vulcans, I think they're a great base for Steampunk weapons and I'm intrigued to see all the different ideas for developing them.
SashaGears; have you ever seen LRPArrows? I'll try and take some photos. We make arrows specifically for LRP, they have a hard stopper over the end of the shaft and then they have a 2 inch diameter foam head made using dense foam with a soft foam end. They are 2 inch diameter so that they can't enter an eye socket and they're safe to use in a 30lb bow at close range.
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« Reply #2337 on: December 18, 2009, 09:32:13 pm » |
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Utini, Eunice totally rocks...Well done indeed Ol Chap.
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« Reply #2338 on: December 19, 2009, 03:14:25 am » |
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Likin' the Eunice, Utini. What with all them hawties handling her, maybe you should incorporate a DNA sampler, and make your own army of Clone Hawties. On second thought, maybe not. Far to many ways for that to go horribly, horribly wrong.
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« Reply #2339 on: December 19, 2009, 03:26:33 am » |
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*thumbs pulling on suspenders*
Thank you boys, thank you.
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« Reply #2340 on: December 19, 2009, 02:30:52 pm » |
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Very nice work Utini, treating the different wood parts according to their intended use was a really good idea and likely to be stolen ... Particularly liked the gun babe photos, clearly at dragoncon, size does matter! |
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« Reply #2341 on: December 19, 2009, 04:01:00 pm » |
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Nothin' keep's 'em smilin' for photos on day 3 of the con like a good gimick. I had quite a few ladies start to give me the, "Thanks, but you're the 837th geek to take my picture this evening, and I've really had enough -- OH, with the big gun? Well, sure!"
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« Reply #2342 on: December 20, 2009, 10:15:38 pm » |
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Well, Eunice is very hard to follow up but I'd still like to share  This first mod doesn't yet have name. Mostly because I haven't thought of anything that I found fitting but also because I am still not sure if I will be keeping this and I don't want to become to attached until I decide. However any suggestions you guys have would be appreciated. It is a modified Buzz Bee Rapid Fire Rifle and the mod took me about two weeks on and off. The metal finishes are made with a base coat of black spray paint and then light coats of rub n' buff. The wood grain on the front of the gun is done using layered coats of spray paint, first brown then a light yellow that I wipe off to give a wood grain texture, then I finish it off with varying thin coats of brown, black, and red with a light sanding in between. All the do dads were made with items commonly found at a hardware store and my garage. The vial was a lightbulb that I carefully broke and filled with blue water. The tube was just some clear plumbing tube, again filled with blue water, and the pieces that it slides into are just pvc pipe. The gear motif was made from some old clock parts, and the decorative piece on the front is a lamp finial. This next gun I posted up here a while ago in it's partially finished state. Since then I added the leather on the handle and I touched up the gold/brassy bits to make it match the gun a little better. (it looked rather garish before.) I was going for a gun that wasn't exactly pretty. I wanted it to be something that looked a little evil and menacing. Though it's a Maverick so it just kinda ended up looking like a cartoon super villains weapon. I'm ok with that though; I'm very proud of the rust effect I got on the gun and I think it's one of my best pieces. If you would like to see larger pictures I have them both up on my DA Page. Unfortunately Photobucket won't let me upload these in their full resolution so I can't post them larger here. Though please feel free to head over and look at the larger pictures if you wish. |
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« Reply #2343 on: December 20, 2009, 10:47:05 pm » |
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Hey! Don't know what you're gonna call that rifle but it looks great. Where you going for a Winchester repeater crossed with an AK-47? That's what I'm seeing.
Winchester and AK. Hmm.
Wincakster. No. Rubbish name.
AK-Minster. Nope. Sounds like a carpet brand.
Winchester AK-1847?
I don't know. But nice work.
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« Reply #2344 on: December 21, 2009, 01:34:24 am » |
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Winchester-Kalashnikov Repeating Rifle Model 47. Or the WKRR-47.
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« Reply #2345 on: December 21, 2009, 01:03:44 pm » |
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@Utini
I love Eunice the Nerf Vulcan mod, and in particular the chipped paint effect using salt as a mask - brilliant!
And the 'gun babes' album on your blog was very cool (and kinda scary - so that is how a DragonCon looks?)
Thanks for the pics and the paint job dissertation.
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« Reply #2346 on: December 21, 2009, 08:49:58 pm » |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, honourable inventors, adventurers and crackpots, The Gentlemen's Gadgeteer Society of London would hereby appreciate the opportunity to present our latest in particle-flinging technology: THE ATHENA'S JAVELIN electric pistol (model 1). In reality, this is an art object I created as a commission for a good friend. He'll be gifting it to his good lady wife this very Christmas. it seems she saw some of my other past works and hasn't ceased to remind him how interesting she thought they were. So he contracted with me to get an original made.       Thank you all for looking!  Merry Christmas, Steve! -Gordon |
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« Reply #2347 on: December 21, 2009, 08:58:42 pm » |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, honourable inventors, adventurers and crackpots, The Gentlemen's Gadgeteer Society of London would hereby appreciate the opportunity to present our latest in particle-flinging technology: THE ATHENA'S JAVELIN electric pistol (model 1). In reality, this is an art object I created as a commission for a good friend. He'll be gifting it to his good lady wife this very Christmas. it seems she saw some of my other past works and hasn't ceased to remind him how interesting she thought they were. So he contracted with me to get an original made. Thank you all for looking! Merry Christmas, Steve! -Gordon Beautiful, I love it. |
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« Reply #2348 on: December 21, 2009, 09:11:22 pm » |
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I thank you kindly for the compliment! -Gordon |
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« Reply #2349 on: December 21, 2009, 11:17:50 pm » |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, honourable inventors, adventurers and crackpots, The Gentlemen's Gadgeteer Society of London would hereby appreciate the opportunity to present our latest in particle-flinging technology: THE ATHENA'S JAVELIN electric pistol (model 1). In reality, this is an art object I created as a commission for a good friend. He'll be gifting it to his good lady wife this very Christmas. it seems she saw some of my other past works and hasn't ceased to remind him how interesting she thought they were. So he contracted with me to get an original made. Thank you all for looking! Merry Christmas, Steve! -Gordon Beautiful, I love it. Agree - that is one classy piece of kit - well done! |
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