Lacrima 99 Shock Rifle - Aliens 4- 3d design and print

[paulsboutique]

Thought Id have ago at the Lacrima 99 from Aliens 4. Its quite a straight forward build, no moving parts, not based on anything, but looks pretty cool and the heavy weathering could go the wrong way ….
Soo ... CAD shots for progress....
I used 2 x 12mm aluminum tubes for the barrel. This also allows you to mount the additional under barrel attachment
I designed it around a solid interior and outer shells to allow for easier printing and to give some depth to the model.

 

[paulsboutique]

Parts all printed out and test assembled

 

[paulsboutique]

Base coat black and silver done.
Then clear coated with 2pac clear.
I then added in a pearl white basecoat (missed taking the photos)

 

[Bacta]

Base coat black and silver done.
Then clear coated with 2pac clear.

Sickkkk!!! Great work

 

[joberg]

Bitchin'

 

[TazMan2000]

All your desgins fit together so smartly.

TazMan2000

 

[BrooklynGuy]

Fantastic, it’s so good to see this.

 

[ghostryder]

Looks amazing - love it!

Some cleaner shots of Cameron's original Pulse Rifle artwork have finally surfaced, would be fun to see someone tackle this one sometime:

 

[paulsboutique]

Right... so its gets a bit murky here as i forgot to take photos along the way ...
The prop store original of this build is heavily weathered and i wanted to go down that route.
I was looking for a flakey, chalky, crazed finish with lots of grime over it.

To get the crazed look I sanded down the clear in various places and hit it up with a few coats of white in the hope it would react with the paint underneath.

I then sanded this down to get the crazed paint look

 

[paulsboutique]

Then disassembled the prop and painted all of the inner black parts in flat black and reassembled.

More weathering, sanding and removing paint

 

[joberg]

Getting there