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Sgt Forge

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Reach M45 Tactical Shotgun Scratchbuild - Cardboard

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02-29-2012, 04:24 PM

Hello everyone, its Sgt Forge. About a week or so ago I started a scratch build of an M45 Tactical Shotgun. I was inspired to build a weapon to bring to my regular convention I've been going to every year, and I searched the forum for ideas. I then found, in the Elite Forum, a build of a wooden M45. Now I was like, "Yeah! I can totally do that!" Then I realized. I'm poor. LOL! So Instead I printed Juliet76's M45 Blueprints at life size:

Then, by measuring and tracing I began to build small parts of it. I figured I had enough done to show all of you here.

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--FINISHED PROP--

Here are the pictures of it finished on 5/13/2012, if you want to see the building process, then please continue through the thread.

Last edited by Sgt Forge; 05-13-2012, 12:10 PM.
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Kwameninja

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#2

02-29-2012, 04:44 PM

Cardboard! \m/

IT looks promising so far! I can't wait to see more!
I plan on starting mine soon!
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Sgt Forge

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02-29-2012, 05:15 PM

Originally posted by Kwameninja View Post

Cardboard! \m/

IT looks promising so far! I can't wait to see more!
I plan on starting mine soon!

Thank you! So you are going to make a M45 as well? Seems to be a pretty popular project lately.
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Kwameninja

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02-29-2012, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by Sgt Forge View Post

Thank you! So you are going to make a M45 as well? Seems to be a pretty popular project lately.

Your Welcome, and yeah haha, i Printed off my blueprints last week and intended to start then, but i just got busy with my DMR instead haha.
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Warpath5150

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#5

02-29-2012, 06:25 PM

good start forge
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Sgt Forge

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#6

02-29-2012, 07:14 PM

Thanks, I plan to work on it more tonight
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thorn696

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03-01-2012, 06:36 AM

Looking good.
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p bro

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#8

03-01-2012, 09:11 AM

Nice mate, with the lifesize blueprint horizontal and vertical scaling must be pretty easy but how about depth? The front and back images look a little difficult to properly judge against, or are you using a 3d computer model as well?
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Sgt Forge

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03-01-2012, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by p bro View Post

Nice mate, with the lifesize blueprint horizontal and vertical scaling must be pretty easy but how about depth? The front and back images look a little difficult to properly judge against, or are you using a 3d computer model as well?

I am using my Action Figure scale toy shotgun, as well as what can get from the top and bottom diagrams to make measurements. Also Im guessing at random a basic width and editing things off of that.
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Kwameninja

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03-02-2012, 04:08 PM

any progress on this bro?
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Toacrabman

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#11

03-02-2012, 09:53 PM

Any way you could use a few little wooden dowels and some rubber bands or whatnot and make a functional pump and door. Maybe even eject a prop shell,
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Shipmastr

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#12

03-03-2012, 08:48 PM

just wondering, where did you get the giant printed out picture for the shotgun? i know its some sheets taped together but i want to know where you got it?
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Toacrabman

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#13

03-03-2012, 09:30 PM

Now all of a sudden I want to know that too.
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XxCALIBERxX

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#14

03-04-2012, 04:13 AM

It's Juliet76's blueprint. Beautiful to work with, you can find it on his thread somewhere a rather. .
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thorn696

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#15

03-04-2012, 08:24 AM

Originally posted by Shipmastr View Post

just wondering, where did you get the giant printed out picture for the shotgun? i know its some sheets taped together but i want to know where you got it?

Here--->http://www.405th.com/showthread.php/...6-s-Blueprints
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