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My lad is getting into Cosplay, and has decided to go for the zombie-slayer look, big boots, long leather coat, ammo pouches, sword and of course his faithful side-arm.
Some of you may remember I made a 1/1 scale blaster from the Lost in Space movie, it is a resin model that the end piece was so badly made that it had to be scrapped and I just added a short barrel and re-changed it slightly-added a mag-release button and a single or three round selector switch-all from old a broken digital camera.
Of course this didn't look right for a heavy side-arm so it has now had a makeover ready for tackling those dead-flesh-munchers.
This is what I did, took the original barrel off, cleaned up the area, and then cored out the resin block, a brass nozzle from an old 1930's torch gun was added via plastic insert, this was then anchored and fastened in using a very good quality CA. Underneath a small gas nozzle from an old welding torch was added, again this was drilled and a plastic insert attached to the brass work so that a good tight hold would work, again CA was used. All painted in satin black and weathered, with the barrel end silvered and then blued. I also added some decals just to add something and the whole thing was sealed in matt-varnish. 2 hours work and something that now looks rather mean.
This is the original:
And now the makeover version:
Si
Some of you may remember I made a 1/1 scale blaster from the Lost in Space movie, it is a resin model that the end piece was so badly made that it had to be scrapped and I just added a short barrel and re-changed it slightly-added a mag-release button and a single or three round selector switch-all from old a broken digital camera.
Of course this didn't look right for a heavy side-arm so it has now had a makeover ready for tackling those dead-flesh-munchers.
This is what I did, took the original barrel off, cleaned up the area, and then cored out the resin block, a brass nozzle from an old 1930's torch gun was added via plastic insert, this was then anchored and fastened in using a very good quality CA. Underneath a small gas nozzle from an old welding torch was added, again this was drilled and a plastic insert attached to the brass work so that a good tight hold would work, again CA was used. All painted in satin black and weathered, with the barrel end silvered and then blued. I also added some decals just to add something and the whole thing was sealed in matt-varnish. 2 hours work and something that now looks rather mean.
This is the original:
And now the makeover version:
Si
