Waaagh!Fest Ork Slugga Trophies

Whoops! Wot’s dis? An update?! Crickey!

Real life has been either extremely busy lately, or extrememly sick. I’m wrapping up day 10 of being run down and finally on the mend. Sucks. But at least now I’ve got enough energy to get something done – and boy do I have things to get done!

Granite City Waaagh!Fest is less than two months away and I’ve got a ‘uge laundry list of things to get done by then, net the least of is building the Slugga pistol trophies. I finally got to work on those this last weekend.

The trickiest part was changing the shape from “Hey, that’s a Nerf Maverick!” to “Hey, that looks like an ork slugga!” I started by mocking up some changes and additions using foamcore to get an idea of shapes and sizes. The next was building out those additions. I started by creating under-boxes. These were made out of acrylic sheet from some recycled display stands we had lying around at work. All of the Nerf identifiers were covered in rough cut acrylic sheet panels and glued over where it said Nerf and Maverick, etc. Working with acrylic sheet sucks. It’s brittle, the glue is some of the worst to work with and, of course, I’m extremely inexperienced with working with it. It’s also very, very sharp so almost every edge where someones hands might run over it had top be sanded down a smoothed out so as not to cut the recipients.

All in all, I did get the major construction wrapped up today. It’s a little difficult to see the actual shape with the acrylic being transparent but I don’t want to prime it until after I get the glyphs on. That’s all I need to do build-wise. The barrels were extended about an inch as well using a bit of pvc pipe connector. I’m thinking of adding some kind of long screw to the top as a sight of sorts, I’ll have to dig around the scrap bins and see what I can find.

I’ll stop yapping now, here’s the pics…

Later!