Ray Gun Show Off Thread!
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parttimegeek
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@builders: most of them are made from hair dryers and drilling machines, right?
Some do. The metal ones especially. Weta's Dr.Grordborts metal guns are super heavy!
Hair dryers, drills, engine timing guns, toys and scratch-built machines parts. The possibilities are pretty much endless.
I finally found some of the pics of the ray gun i built for theRPF contest.
Uridium
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Hi tmax , really enjoying looking at your (and the others here) builds. Have a quick question, can you share a brief description of how you got the lighting working on this build.
You have inspired me to you build my own Ray-Gun from an old drill and I wanted to add some lighting.
Cheers!!!
Ha ha yeah that's an easy one...
Disney Pixar Toy Story BUZZ LIGHTYEAR INFINITY BLASTER - Walmart.com
I'm not an electronics guy so I totally cheated. Lol.
the DOCTOR
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Rayguns, eh? Well, my first one from many years ago, was the Trubshaw, made from EMA/Plastruct domes and offcuts, went 'BRRRZAP!' and lit up:
Then came the Steam Pistol, a projectile weapon, using sulphuric acid and water as propellant, firing either round or cube bullets, like the Puckle Gun:
Two magazines, pump to prime, and an antique cutlery canteen for a box:
The pistol itself is made from acrylic wine and champagne glasses, brass, hardwood, and bits from the bits box.
First rifle, the Thunderbuss, a sonic fowling piece:
Mainly Plastruct tube (a local model shop had a going out of business sale), built on a rook rifle stock, more brass, bits of plastic vase, and this one lights up, and is waiting for the guts of a Minion fart gun to be added.
Then I got asked by a famous author of far-fetched-fiction to make his wife a raygun, she, being known as Lady Raygun, got a raygun called the "Lady Raygun Lady's Raygun":
The brief was "A feminine looking pistol with a nice box", which wasn't a double entendre (I think):
Made from acrylic baubles, acrylic vase parts, acrylic sheet and an acrylic glass:
I was subsequently asked to build a pistol for the aforementioned author, which became the COMMODORE:
More acrylic baubles, and a working plasma ball, again, with an antique box, and accessories:
Turned wooden handle, made to look like a belaying pin, in keeping with the nautical theme:
Another commission, based on the Lady Raygun, for a gentleman in the us, as a Christmas gift from his wife:
Actually have some better in progress shots for this one:
My other rifle, inspired by WETA's Pomson 3000:
The stock has a faux Bakelite finish, or "Fakelite", as I like to call it.
This one is mainly stainless steel kitchenware, and came about because of a piece of 25mm MDF in the bin at work, which became the stock:
Most recently, I've been working on this:
...which may or may not be the thrower from a 1930s Dieselpunk take on the Ghostbusters Proton Pack:
Well, that's all I can think of for now...
Then came the Steam Pistol, a projectile weapon, using sulphuric acid and water as propellant, firing either round or cube bullets, like the Puckle Gun:
Two magazines, pump to prime, and an antique cutlery canteen for a box:
The pistol itself is made from acrylic wine and champagne glasses, brass, hardwood, and bits from the bits box.
First rifle, the Thunderbuss, a sonic fowling piece:
Mainly Plastruct tube (a local model shop had a going out of business sale), built on a rook rifle stock, more brass, bits of plastic vase, and this one lights up, and is waiting for the guts of a Minion fart gun to be added.
Then I got asked by a famous author of far-fetched-fiction to make his wife a raygun, she, being known as Lady Raygun, got a raygun called the "Lady Raygun Lady's Raygun":
The brief was "A feminine looking pistol with a nice box", which wasn't a double entendre (I think):
Made from acrylic baubles, acrylic vase parts, acrylic sheet and an acrylic glass:
I was subsequently asked to build a pistol for the aforementioned author, which became the COMMODORE:
More acrylic baubles, and a working plasma ball, again, with an antique box, and accessories:
Turned wooden handle, made to look like a belaying pin, in keeping with the nautical theme:
Another commission, based on the Lady Raygun, for a gentleman in the us, as a Christmas gift from his wife:
Actually have some better in progress shots for this one:
My other rifle, inspired by WETA's Pomson 3000:
The stock has a faux Bakelite finish, or "Fakelite", as I like to call it.
This one is mainly stainless steel kitchenware, and came about because of a piece of 25mm MDF in the bin at work, which became the stock:
Most recently, I've been working on this:
...which may or may not be the thrower from a 1930s Dieselpunk take on the Ghostbusters Proton Pack:
Well, that's all I can think of for now...
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