So of course every good mandalorian is walking armory of hurt, tricks, and quick wits, and I want mine to be no exception. So far I have three different types of weapons that I am working on for my kit, and this is where I will show off the progress I make! So far I have
Grenades,
Blaster Pistol and an
Electrostaff/batons.
So first lets look at my electrostaff/batons, as I took an already excellent idea and tutorial, and went completely nuts with it.
I like the idea of an electrostaff, but honestly I didnt want to carry it around, so I thought up a modification that better suited me. My idea is to make an electrostaff that can disconnect into two pieces, almost like stun batons. Those two batons which I can then come up with a mounting solution for my kit (im thinking my back plate when I get it)
So I started with this:
its the same materials from the electrostaff tutorial thread, except I cut the 1" PVC into two 1' lengths, and decided to forgo the metal flagpole (which I had already substituted for some conduit) and added the male and female PVC connectors. Since I didnt know how well my plans would work out, I decided to just focus on one baton at a time. Here it is all laid out in how I would put it together.
In the first picture, you can see I taped up one of the sliding parts with blue tape, and marked some lines on it. I knew early on I wanted these to be more than sticks that I waved around, and was aiming for an overall aesthetic similar to the electrostaffs that Grevious' magnaguards used
So I took that piece of PVC I marked up, and took my dremel to it, and cut some slots in it.
Which then leads to the baton looking like this.
Now came the fun part, and the part I didnt take as many pictures of, so I'll take pictures of now. I got some pink LEDs, wired up 6 of them (two strings of 3 in parallel) and used some hot glue to put them at the bottom of the part I cut the slots in, and put some leads on them. Then after drilling a hole in the shaft of the baton for a nice push button, and wiring it all up to a 9v battery, I have a little baton that lights up with pink slots.
Right now the whole staff has been primed and is drying before I go back and pull more inspiration and ideas from the tutorial thread.
Then theres my grenades and pistol.
Only downside was that it appears the top of one of the cryoban's went ker-snap in the shipping process on its way to me, but nothing some glue cant fix. Not much has progressed with them for now; I glued the cryoban grenade back together, and sanded/primed the frag grenades before I construct them fully. The pistol however, is the main reason I wanted to show this all off.
I dont know what to do with it!
As you may have seen in my main WIP, its a replica of the revolver that Hellboy uses in the movies, the
Good Samaritan. Given that its kinda recognizable, I need to modify it of course, but I kinda dont know what to do. I think im going to wrap the handle with something, partially to cover up the little icon ornamentation in the handle, and partially because I like the look of it. I will most likely give it a scope, which I quickly mocked up with stuff I had laying around in my garage and some blue tape...
but beyond that im stuck. I think I want to maybe extend the barrel a little somehow, maybe? I need some thoughts fellow creative masterminds!
