Patrolman's Issue PKD

[The Loyalizer]

I finally got around to putting the finish on that stunt casting that was offered here a while ago. After I chopped off the butt-ugly hunk of resin at the bottom of the casting, I plugged the hole by cutting a piece of styrene to shape and gluing it flush with the bottom of the buttplate.

Since I didn't feel like trying to simulate a worldcon finish on this blaster, I decided to go with a basic paint scheme. After priming it I gave it a couple of coats of sliver paint and let it cure for a week, then I hit it with a coat of flat black until it was totally black. When that dried I gave it a thorough wet sanding until the finish was smooth and some of the black had worn off or down in spots and allowed some of the silver to show through.

Finally I rubbed down everything but the grips with graphite applied to a small piece of leather, then gave it a light spray of clear coat to seal the graphite. The clear coat really took the shine down on the graphite, but not as bad as I was afraid it would. Overall I think it cleaned up nicely. Enjoy.




If i get more free time later I might try to do simulated wood grips for it. This particular casting had almost no separation between the grips and the grip frame on the front of it so I just sanded down what was left of the lines and went for the Hogue wrap around style grips. I'd love to get some of that paint that dries to a rubberized texture and hit the grips with it, but I haven't been able to find any around here.

For a while I was half tempted by the notion of chopping about 3/4 of an inch off the middle of the gun and converting it into a snub, but I ultimately decided against it.
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[phase pistol]

Looks good!

[andy]

That is basically what most of the stunts were used as, for the police extras. Some of them had the grips painted to look like the amber grips, but looked more like a wood grain. I love the all black look myself. I got a set of black rubber grips from Rich Coyle for his version of the stunt.

Looking very cool.

Andy

[joberg]

Looking good! I love the sobre black/used look of a standard weapon

[Gaff87]

Great work on that.
Love the black aswell

[Chronos]

Looks great!

[temponaut]

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing the details of your finishing technique with us, too.