A Collective Thread for All Them Guns Pt. II

[elvisroe]

Here's my raygun from 3 years ago, in a much better series of shots:

Love it!

[elvisroe]

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[MWBailey]

Here's my raygun from 3 years ago, in a much better series of shots:

Love it!

Now that is a steampunk raygun. It looks functional and very, very deadly.

I like it a lot.

MWBailey-

That ray gun looks great. I really like the sliding bolt on the top of the barrel. Very nice

WOW, thanks for teh compliments, folks!

[Steam Titan]

well first post on here. Only found out bout this sight perhaps 3 days ago now. Rather large fan the whole thing. I've got a bunch of ideas in my head but sadly not the funds or supplies to build most of them. Anyways here is a nerf maverick I modded like 2 years ago perhaps now. I know its mostly just filed off all the marks and repainted.

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So when reading over the thread I saw mention of a quartz lock gun. I was wondering if someone could explain to me exactly what they were thinking concept wise with that. I have a rather painfully colored flintlock toy I got at Halloween for like $2 and wanna use the paint tutorials to make it appear real and possibly try that idea with it.

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While at work yesterday I came upon something that I thought might work well to turn into a stock/handle for a pistol. Its a wooden stand for putting a picture frame in but when folded together on its hinge I think it makes a rather decorative handle. further folded this way it has a grove you could use to help set things into.

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I plan to sand the paint off and glue it together ass well as use some screws/ the hinges in it I'll likely use to help hold on whatever I attach. I'll give it a nice wood stain after the paint is gone. Likely I will also sand and round out the grip area for a more comfortable hold

[von Corax]

I know its mostly just filed off all the marks...

That's actually the one thing first-timers most commonly forget to do. Good start.

So when reading over the thread I saw mention of a quartz lock gun. I was wondering if someone could explain to me exactly what they were thinking concept wise with that. I have a rather painfully colored flintlock toy I got at Halloween for like $2 and wanna use the paint tutorials to make it appear real and possibly try that idea with it.

I think I remember floating that expression. What I was picturing was exploiting quartz's piezoelectric characteristic by letting the hammer strike a quartz crystal to generate an electric charge which would spark between two electrodes to ignite the powder (or whatever) charge, on the same principle as push-button barbeque starters and cigarette lighters (although those usually use a different crystal for the purpose.)

[Steam Titan]

I know its mostly just filed off all the marks...

That's actually the one thing first-timers most commonly forget to do. Good start.

So when reading over the thread I saw mention of a quartz lock gun. I was wondering if someone could explain to me exactly what they were thinking concept wise with that. I have a rather painfully colored flintlock toy I got at Halloween for like $2 and wanna use the paint tutorials to make it appear real and possibly try that idea with it.

I think I remember floating that expression. What I was picturing was exploiting quartz's piezoelectric characteristic by letting the hammer strike a quartz crystal to generate an electric charge which would spark between two electrodes to ignite the powder (or whatever) charge, on the same principle as push-button barbeque starters and cigarette lighters (although those usually use a different crystal for the purpose.)

so would still be firing a ball than? or would it be some sort of like voltage throwing shot? like lightning shooting?

also I filed it off cause couldn't stand taking time to paint it up and all and leave all the nerf logos and copywrite info intact. it had to be smoothed away lol

[von Corax]

I know its mostly just filed off all the marks...

That's actually the one thing first-timers most commonly forget to do. Good start.

So when reading over the thread I saw mention of a quartz lock gun. I was wondering if someone could explain to me exactly what they were thinking concept wise with that. I have a rather painfully colored flintlock toy I got at Halloween for like $2 and wanna use the paint tutorials to make it appear real and possibly try that idea with it.

I think I remember floating that expression. What I was picturing was exploiting quartz's piezoelectric characteristic by letting the hammer strike a quartz crystal to generate an electric charge which would spark between two electrodes to ignite the powder (or whatever) charge, on the same principle as push-button barbeque starters and cigarette lighters (although those usually use a different crystal for the purpose.)

so would still be firing a ball than?

Yep. It would work exactly like a cap-lock, except you wouldn't have to *$@# around with single-use percussion caps and nipple wrenches and stuff; the crystal would be permanently mounted (but replaceable, of course, in case of damage.)

[Steam Titan]

I know its mostly just filed off all the marks...

That's actually the one thing first-timers most commonly forget to do. Good start.

So when reading over the thread I saw mention of a quartz lock gun. I was wondering if someone could explain to me exactly what they were thinking concept wise with that. I have a rather painfully colored flintlock toy I got at Halloween for like $2 and wanna use the paint tutorials to make it appear real and possibly try that idea with it.

I think I remember floating that expression. What I was picturing was exploiting quartz's piezoelectric characteristic by letting the hammer strike a quartz crystal to generate an electric charge which would spark between two electrodes to ignite the powder (or whatever) charge, on the same principle as push-button barbeque starters and cigarette lighters (although those usually use a different crystal for the purpose.)

so would still be firing a ball than?

Yep. It would work exactly like a cap-lock, except you wouldn't have to *$@# around with single-use percussion caps and nipple wrenches and stuff; the crystal would be permanently mounted (but replaceable, of course, in case of damage.)

curious to figure out if there is a similar way to make a lightning flintlock possibly a Thunderlock that throws lightning based on something similar.

[MWBailey]

curious to figure out if there is a similar way to make a lightning flintlock possibly a Thunderlock that throws lightning based on something similar.

Maybe a wheel-lock pistol body to mount a circular Gauss generator (an adaptation of a Faraday device, perhaps) and a barrel holding an electrode array? Just a thought.

[Steam Titan]

curious to figure out if there is a similar way to make a lightning flintlock possibly a Thunderlock that throws lightning based on something similar.

Maybe a wheel-lock pistol body to mount a circular Gauss generator (an adaptation of a Faraday device, perhaps) and a barrel holding an electrode array? Just a thought.

could you go into that all a bit more? It sounds interesting. All i can think of so far is something like half cock starts priming up a charge. Full cock brings to full and trigger bringing down hammer completes an electric circuit that fires gun. Only issue I see is seems could be done just as easily with just a trigger pull that closes circuit

[MWBailey]

curious to figure out if there is a similar way to make a lightning flintlock possibly a Thunderlock that throws lightning based on something similar.

Maybe a wheel-lock pistol body to mount a circular Gauss generator (an adaptation of a Faraday device, perhaps) and a barrel holding an electrode array? Just a thought.

could you go into that all a bit more? It sounds interesting. All i can think of so far is something like half cock starts priming up a charge. Full cock brings to full and trigger bringing down hammer completes an electric circuit that fires gun. Only issue I see is seems could be done just as easily with just a trigger pull that closes circuit

Hmm... OK, but where does all that static electricity ciome from?

[spirit of the west]

unfortunately you can't leave the house with out it anymore. 

The six gun or the cell phone?

Yes.

I was speaking of the cell phone but you know I do live in Texas. HA HA HA!

Thanks to everyone for the compliments.
I finished my gun bell the other night and I'll post some pic's as soon as I get a chance to take them.

~SOTW~

Well as promised a picture of the gun belt. Also a sneak peek at my latest project.

  ~SOTW~

[MWBailey]

Posting my idea for the wheellock mechanism for the lightning gun:

It's your gun, so its your choice; I just tend to think in terms of mechanisms, so a generator of some kind, as opposed to a battery is what pops into my mind.

Pardon the extremely rough sketch and sorry excuse for a photo, but this is the basic mechanism:


This is all hypothetical, and while a faraday generator this size could actually operate, it admittedly would not in RL have the power to throw a 'lightning' bolt much farther than a quarter of an inch, if that much. I just think it's an interesting idea. I'm also oversimplifying the mechanism to some degree.

The doghead contact, at top, engages the faraday contact, which receives a sizable static charge from the Faraday Device, which consists of a spinning magnetized plate (spun by a springwound mechanism) spinning very close to two brushes, one positive and the other negative. The mechanism could be wound by a key, and then fired, or used with a crank to charge a capacitance cell, and then be fired, by the same doghead-and-contact mechanism. Complicated, yes, but seems fun to me...

[Steam Titan]

Posting my idea for the wheellock mechanism for the lightning gun:

It's your gun, so its your choice; I just tend to think in terms of mechanisms, so a generator of some kind, as opposed to a battery is what pops into my mind.

Pardon the extremely rough sketch and sorry excuse for a photo, but this is the basic mechanism:


This is all hypothetical, and while a faraday generator this size could actually operate, it admittedly would not in RL have the power to throw a 'lightning' bolt much farther than a quarter of an inch, if that much. I just think it's an interesting idea. I'm also oversimplifying the mechanism to some degree.

The doghead contact, at top, engages the faraday contact, which receives a sizable static charge from the Faraday Device, which consists of a spinning magnetized plate (spun by a springwound mechanism) spinning very close to two brushes, one positive and the other negative. The mechanism could be wound by a key, and then fired, or used with a crank to charge a capacitance cell, and then be fired, by the same doghead-and-contact mechanism. Complicated, yes, but seems fun to me...

hmmm seems neat. yeah I dunno fuly my ideas. tossing some about in head. I do sorta have an idea for a hip mounted generator that is wired up into a gun that perhaps is a blunderbuss in style. Not sure the exacts of the output shot from it. amaybe a spray of lightning or maybe just a short range ball lightning blast from it. I tend to like lightning and aether stuff in my steampunk as well as steam. Like part of the idea for the airship I'm designing is that its partly powered by electricity that is gathered in storms and stuff. THe lab on the ship actually lowers below it so that if things go very wrong it can be dropped to save the ship

[BlackReaper]

  Well after working on it off and on the past 2 years (at first I just spray painted the gun black but it wasn't until May/June/July this year that I decided to actually SteamPunkify it,Hee-hee) I finally finished my Vulcan Mod.My main reason for finishing it now instead of some other time is that A)I'm the Da'Vinci with starting projects and I've been trying to finish a lot of my projeckts before my brother comes to visit for Christmas Holiday and I have to have this place cleaned up and all that sort.

  Anyhoo,here are the pictures I took the evening that I finished it before work (I'm a third-shift stocker at Meijer's if you didn't know). Note:This album is public. Cheers! GLYAASDI --Nate--

[Dr cornelius quack]

The MkIII Astrogator.




It's quite a hefty beast, weighing in at just over 1kg so far.

[Herr Döktor]

The MkIII Astrogator.




It's quite a hefty beast, weighing in at just over 1kg so far.

Doubles as a cosh, nice!

[Steam Titan]

well bugger.. that picture easel i had was particle board under the paint  most unfortunate as that does not look good. I got a new more expensive one that appears to be real wood but will have to see when I sand it some to get the rather paint like varnish off it

[Fennius]

Not sure how steampunky this is but here's today's work. Yes I know it's just a repaint but the point was to repaint the gun I'd use for the Humans Versus Zombies Society I'm joining at Uni.

[dangerdavey]

Not sure how steampunky this is but here's today's work. Yes I know it's just a repaint but the point was to repaint the gun I'd use for the Humans Versus Zombies Society I'm joining at Uni.

Well done patina and paint work!! It looks like it has already blasted a few zombies in it's adventures!!

~DD/Levi P. Darkside

[Fennius]

Not sure how steampunky this is but here's today's work. Yes I know it's just a repaint but the point was to repaint the gun I'd use for the Humans Versus Zombies Society I'm joining at Uni.

Well done patina and paint work!! It looks like it has already blasted a few zombies in it's adventures!!

~DD/Levi P. Darkside

Thanks, it was actually a pretty simple paint job. I sprayed everything black then drybrushed silver the 'steel' parts and the same the 'bronze' parts with a mix of gold, silver, and copper. Then a spot of copper for the piping and silver the the crews and details. Then sprayed a clearcoat which weirdly yellowed(/greened) a couple of spots but that sort of works.

[Lord Bark]

Hello all.  I'm new here, and I saw this topic and thought it'd be a good opportunity to ease my way into the forums.  I recently had to design and build a prop rifle for a series of photomanips I'm working on (three of which are on show at the Bradford Industrial Museum), and so here's a few pics.  Looking at the frankly fantastic bits and pieces other people have built, I will be the first to admit mine is a lot less steampunk that the majority, but hey-ho.

The ethos is this is a mass-produced rifle for Britannia's armed forces, circa 1901, rather than a bespoke masterpiece weapon. It has a few flourishes and design touches, but it needed to look relatively robust.  The design is freelance, with inspirations taken from here and there (a research trip to the Leeds Royal Armouries being particularly useful), and out of time somewhat, a lot of the original inspirations came from the old 1970's/1980's British Army rifles that were replaced by the modern SA80.  A similarly designed RPG and officers revolver never got off the drawing board, at least not yet.  The rifle isn’t fully finished either- working to the original deadline for the exhibition meant it needed to look just good-enough to be photographed, before the rest of the series is shot I'll hopefully end up remodelling it a bit.



True Blue-Peter fashion- its built around a washing line pole, which forms the barrel and gives it strength.  The stock is built up from lengths of plastic piping, and much of the bodywork is a combination of 5 mil foam core board, and artists 3mm mount card.  Other odds and ends are from the scrap box, anything that looked right.  The more ornate bits of detailing came from an Aladdin’s palace play set I think, picked up as a source of parts years ago at a boot sale.



The rifle seen finished and painted.  No bits of polished brass or copper- in line with the mass-produced basic weapon ethos, it’s pretty plain.  It was sprayed with matte black, and then dusted with a little boltgun and silver, to give it a slightly metallic sheen.



Close-up of the weapon in one of the test montages- though not an elaborate steampunk piece along the lines of the other ones produced here, it seems to go with the look of the infantryman.  The whole appearance of the army is meant to be a bit less redcoat, more WW1 a few years early, so the weapon seems to slot into that pretty well.

Hopefully I’ll get a proper thread going in the next few days to show a few other bits and pieces, mostly miniatures built for the pics…

[D.Oakes]

Hello all.  I'm new here, and I saw this topic and thought it'd be a good opportunity to ease my way into the forums.  I recently had to design and build a prop rifle for a series of photomanips I'm working on (three of which are on show at the Bradford Industrial Museum), and so here's a few pics.  Looking at the frankly fantastic bits and pieces other people have built, I will be the first to admit mine is a lot less steampunk that the majority, but hey-ho.

The ethos is this is a mass-produced rifle for Britannia's armed forces, circa 1901, rather than a bespoke masterpiece weapon. It has a few flourishes and design touches, but it needed to look relatively robust.  The design is freelance, with inspirations taken from here and there (a research trip to the Leeds Royal Armouries being particularly useful), and out of time somewhat, a lot of the original inspirations came from the old 1970's/1980's British Army rifles that were replaced by the modern SA80.  A similarly designed RPG and officers revolver never got off the drawing board, at least not yet.  The rifle isn’t fully finished either- working to the original deadline for the exhibition meant it needed to look just good-enough to be photographed, before the rest of the series is shot I'll hopefully end up remodelling it a bit.



True Blue-Peter fashion- its built around a washing line pole, which forms the barrel and gives it strength.  The stock is built up from lengths of plastic piping, and much of the bodywork is a combination of 5 mil foam core board, and artists 3mm mount card.  Other odds and ends are from the scrap box, anything that looked right.  The more ornate bits of detailing came from an Aladdin’s palace play set I think, picked up as a source of parts years ago at a boot sale.



The rifle seen finished and painted.  No bits of polished brass or copper- in line with the mass-produced basic weapon ethos, it’s pretty plain.  It was sprayed with matte black, and then dusted with a little boltgun and silver, to give it a slightly metallic sheen.



Close-up of the weapon in one of the test montages- though not an elaborate steampunk piece along the lines of the other ones produced here, it seems to go with the look of the infantryman.  The whole appearance of the army is meant to be a bit less redcoat, more WW1 a few years early, so the weapon seems to slot into that pretty well.

Hopefully I’ll get a proper thread going in the next few days to show a few other bits and pieces, mostly miniatures built for the pics…

Though it's one of those pieces that skirts the line between steampunk and dieselpunk....I REALLY like it.  It looks convincing and very much of the time period.  (albeit an alternative one)  It looks like it should actually function and have existed. 

[Dr. Madd]

A question for the man with the Astrogator- What is that on the muzzle? It's always cool to see what people make stuff out of .

[Dr cornelius quack]

A question for the man with the Astrogator- What is that on the muzzle? It's always cool to see what people make stuff out of .

It's a mono-crystalline shard of Unobtainium. 

Or,

It's a cast resin shape what you get when you pour the stuff into a cheesy Christmas tree ornament and give it a few coats of pearlescent paint wash.