Hey everyone, I'm a prop maker and one of my current projects is the Battle Rifle from Halo 4, so I figured I'd post it here as this audience would likely appreciate it. It's been quite a while since I've made a gun-type prop, and I've been playing a lot of Halo lately, so I decided I wanted to build the battle riffle as it's quite interesting and extremely intricate and I think would be a good challenge to see how my skills have progressed over the years. Here's them main reference picture I'm working from:
The main materials I'm using are sintra and styrene in varying thicknesses. I started by printing out a full-scale profile view of the gun at FedEx to work from as a starting template.
I glued together 3 sheets of 1/4" sintra and taped the paper template to it, then cut out the basic shape using a band saw.
Then I started making some detail pieces from styrene using various tools and the paper template as a guide. I found clamping the styrene sections in my vice made them easier to sand, particularly the slots for the rail.
Next I made the larger barrel section for the front of the gun. This is a piece of 1.25" PVC which I added ridges to by spinning and sanding it on my drill press. I then took a piece of acrylic rod and sanded the ends flat (so it would sit correctly on the flat planes it would be joining to), and built up layers of pipe at one end until it nested snugly inside the PVC. It's an off center fit, as required for the way it would fit into the gun, which was a bit tricky to get straight but turned out well. This was then covered with epoxy putty and then sanded smooth.
This piece was then joined to the rest of the prop. I added some more styrene on top of the acrylic rod to form a rail, and then mixed up some Miliput to do some gap filling.
After that I started layering sintra to make the hand guard.
Continued piecing it together bit by bit.
Started working on the clip. The base is sintra sandwiched between styrene sheets.
Made the textured hand grips from a 1/8" ABS sheet. After these where applied, Miliput was spread in various places to smooth out the paneling.
I primed the gun to see how it was all coming together.
Then I started spot filling and sanding to make everything smooth.
Couple more days work and it should be ready to mold.
The main materials I'm using are sintra and styrene in varying thicknesses. I started by printing out a full-scale profile view of the gun at FedEx to work from as a starting template.
I glued together 3 sheets of 1/4" sintra and taped the paper template to it, then cut out the basic shape using a band saw.
Then I started making some detail pieces from styrene using various tools and the paper template as a guide. I found clamping the styrene sections in my vice made them easier to sand, particularly the slots for the rail.
Next I made the larger barrel section for the front of the gun. This is a piece of 1.25" PVC which I added ridges to by spinning and sanding it on my drill press. I then took a piece of acrylic rod and sanded the ends flat (so it would sit correctly on the flat planes it would be joining to), and built up layers of pipe at one end until it nested snugly inside the PVC. It's an off center fit, as required for the way it would fit into the gun, which was a bit tricky to get straight but turned out well. This was then covered with epoxy putty and then sanded smooth.
This piece was then joined to the rest of the prop. I added some more styrene on top of the acrylic rod to form a rail, and then mixed up some Miliput to do some gap filling.
After that I started layering sintra to make the hand guard.
Continued piecing it together bit by bit.
Started working on the clip. The base is sintra sandwiched between styrene sheets.
Made the textured hand grips from a 1/8" ABS sheet. After these where applied, Miliput was spread in various places to smooth out the paneling.
I primed the gun to see how it was all coming together.
Then I started spot filling and sanding to make everything smooth.
Couple more days work and it should be ready to mold.
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