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I began this project with the intent to give the piece a steampunk or Industrial Revolution look, and specifically chose a copper-and-brass color scheme. I chose the term "classic-styled" because of this unfortunate phenomenon -->[link]

I don't think it counts as art, but I was careful in choosing the color and textures I wanted for the piece and was as absolutely careful as I had patience for in executing my plan.

I chose these pieces because of the science-fictiony and somewhat overcomplicated, unstreamlined look they present, completely unlike most modern handguns. The flashlight built into the upper part is passably functional, and at a range where a dart can actually reach, the red light built in under the dart-launching barrel does a fair impression of a laser sight.

Due to time, cost and, above all, hassle considerations, I decided not to do any modification of the body of the piece to add extra features like more external pipes, glass tubes with colored liquid or dials and gauges. I'm saving those for a more ambitious project.

It came out looking pretty slick, I think, and I'm proud enough of it that I'm putting it up here.

Materials: Nite-Finder Nerf blaster and N-Strike Mission Kit Tactical Light (both from Hasbro), metallic hammered copper texture spraypaint, metallic gold spraypaint, dark brown spraypaint, Chaos Black and Tin Bitz paint from Citadel, high-gloss spray coating

Description
I began this project with the intent to give the piece a steampunk or Industrial Revolution look, and specifically chose a copper-and-brass color scheme. I chose the term "classic-styled" because of this unfortunate phenomenon -->[link]

I don't think it counts as art, but I was careful in choosing the color and textures I wanted for the piece and was as absolutely careful as I had patience for in executing my plan.

I chose these pieces because of the science-fictiony and somewhat overcomplicated, unstreamlined look they present, completely unlike most modern handguns. The flashlight built into the upper part is passably functional, and at a range where a dart can actually reach, the red light built in under the dart-launching barrel does a fair impression of a laser sight.

Due to time, cost and, above all, hassle considerations, I decided not to do any modification of the body of the piece to add extra features like more external pipes, glass tubes with colored liquid or dials and gauges. I'm saving those for a more ambitious project.

It came out looking pretty slick, I think, and I'm proud enough of it that I'm putting it up here.

Materials: Nite-Finder Nerf blaster and N-Strike Mission Kit Tactical Light (both from Hasbro), metallic hammered copper texture spraypaint, metallic gold spraypaint, dark brown spraypaint, Chaos Black and Tin Bitz paint from Citadel, high-gloss spray coating