A question about guns
- Thread starter Ziggy
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Hm...real fast? If you´re sculpting them yourself I guess fast isn´t part of that deal. The only option I see is buying an airsoft version and making casts of it. But that would be recasting?! 
And from there on, you´d still have to have a vacuum table to form abs, or molds you could make resin copies from.
I really don´t know for sure, but if you don´t have the tools there probably isn´t a fast way to make a lot of them.
Maybe a props company would lend out some too you?
And from there on, you´d still have to have a vacuum table to form abs, or molds you could make resin copies from.
I really don´t know for sure, but if you don´t have the tools there probably isn´t a fast way to make a lot of them.
Maybe a props company would lend out some too you?
Hm...real fast? If you´re sculpting them yourself I guess fast isn´t part of that deal. The only option I see is buying an airsoft version and making casts of it. But that would be recasting?!
And from there on, you´d still have to have a vacuum table to form abs, or molds you could make resin copies from.
I really don´t know for sure, but if you don´t have the tools there probably isn´t a fast way to make a lot of them.
Maybe a props company would lend out some too you?
well not too fast but also not like getting one done every three weeks
Trooper937
Jr Hunter
I'm no expert, but i have made a few guns in the past. Using paper and rolls of paper and some skill, plus applying bondo to the edges and sanding it, you maybe able to used silicone to cast it.
Only a suggestion, i'm no expert, still new here.
Only a suggestion, i'm no expert, still new here.
Stormrider
Well-Known Hunter
Go to smoothon.com they have a tutorial on making casts/molds of guns.
Theres a nice one actually. But your looking at 200 ish bucks minimum to make a mold and a few casts of a gun.
Theres a nice one actually. But your looking at 200 ish bucks minimum to make a mold and a few casts of a gun.
stormtrooperguy
Sr Hunter
i'd say your best bet is to get an airsoft, cast it, and make resin copies. like stormrider said, you're looking at $200 - $300 + the cost of the airsoft, but it will get the job done.
Trooper937
Jr Hunter
But like cran4ky said, it would be considered recasting. But you may get away with it if you as long as you don't gain a profit from it.
stormtrooperguy
Sr Hunter
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the company making the $8 airsoft guns isn't going to care.
That's like saying that making a cast of a Casio calculator keypad is recasting
Trooper937
Jr Hunter
WOW!!Eight dollars for an airsoft, that preety cheap.Here is britain, an airsoft gun cost more than 20 dollars.But what stormtrooperguy saids true.
Thanks guys
I think i am going try that airsoft casting thing that you guys said but i think i will take the gun apart and cast the two halves of the main part of the gun separate. But how do i mould it so its like a shell like the airsoft gun instead of one big piece of resin?
Oh and can some one give me a more persice link to gun mould tutorials on smoothon.com i cant find any
Ziggy
I think i am going try that airsoft casting thing that you guys said but i think i will take the gun apart and cast the two halves of the main part of the gun separate. But how do i mould it so its like a shell like the airsoft gun instead of one big piece of resin?
Oh and can some one give me a more persice link to gun mould tutorials on smoothon.com i cant find any
Ziggy
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Stormrider
Well-Known Hunter
Go to www.alumilite.com and look up 'squish molds' in their tutorials, also try polytec and smoothon. They ahve tutorials that will explain how to make a squish mold, that will make hollow pieces. ALumilites mold tutorial that you want, is the match box car mold. Youll do each side of the gun, the same way they do the car.
stormtrooperguy
Sr Hunter
WOW!!Eight dollars for an airsoft, that preety cheap.Here is britain, an airsoft gun cost more than 20 dollars.But what stormtrooperguy saids true.
It all depends on what you want. There are cheap springers that might shoot 5 BBs before they die, then there are nice ones. If you're just gutting it to mold, no need for the nice one.
That being said, for my Jayne Cobb costume I actually use a Marui MP5-K that cost me almost $300, since it was the only model that had the right features. That was a nice gun too... before I pulled the motor out it would spray pellets so hard that they went in one side of a washing machine box and out the other.
But, now it has no motor and a trigger epoxied into place.
Which reminds me, I should really mold that some day!
As far as the exact link to the tutorials goes... I don't know myself, and don't really want to spend the afternoon looking for a link I don't need
Well i need to make both but i think i should try with something smaller like that pistol first
