STEAMPUNK NERF REBELLE CHARMED DAUNTLESS BLASTER

My latest painted Nerf gun. It's based on my favourite Nerf Rebelle Charmed Dauntless Blaster. Do you think they were going for the longest name? I love the styling on these, the scroll work and flourishes and the quilted leather effect on the grips is fabulous.
This one is basically silver and blue. It's available now in my Etsy Shop.

Captain Mal's Gun From Firefly

I'm afraid the TV show Firefly seem to pass by unnoticed by me  for some reason, though I do have a copy of "Serenity" on DVD. I recently got the chance to see a replica of Mal's pistol, owned by a fellow steampunk, It was a slightly "steampunk" version with a copper barrel. Anyway having seen it close up as night follows day it was a certainty I'd make one eventually. Turned out to bee sooner rather than later. I get these obsessions.
So with a few photo's gathered from the internet and some measurements plus my usual assortment of materials, MDF, hardwood scraps, bit's of old Biros and clock parts I made my very own Captain Malcolm Reynolds gun.

If you haven't seen Firefly you can get it on Amazon.

Steampunk Canes

Here's a few of the canes I've made in the past.
Apart from the couple which have obviously got copper shafts they generally have hardwood shafts with a black finish.

My Steampunk "to do" List.

I'm going to be busy next week, I've got a lot of things waiting to modify and paint. The list right now consists of.
2 Cyberman helmets
2 Nerf Rebelle Charmed Duntless Blasters
1 Huntsman Boomstick
1 large pirate flintlock
1 Nerf Strongarm Blaster
3 Nerf Rebelle crossbows
1 Western revolver
Plus a couple of light up LED canes and a couple of Femur handle canes.
Makes me tired thinking about it. I seriously doubt that I'll get it all done in a week.

Steampunk Gun Commission

 This is a small steampunk pistol I was commissioned to make by a young lady. Mahogany and brass construction with her initials etched into a brass plate on one side and scroll work on the other side.

Steampunk Nerf Guns

I often paint Nerf guns to give them a more Steampunk appearance, I'm not a big Nerf gun fan but there are one or two which I really like in particular the Nerf Rebelle Charmed Dauntless Blaster. Quite a mouthful of a name, I really like the look of this one.

 The Rebelle range is very different from the other ranges in style and most noticeably the colours especially the pinks and purples, it's obviously aimed at the female market.

The Charmed Dauntless is particularly nice with it's quilted leather look grips and the scroll work on the body and the engraving on the barrels. It gives it a quite Victorian almost Art Nouveau look.  For some reason Hasbro decided not to do the ornamentation on the other side of the gun.


I don't do much in the way of modifying this gun it doesn't need it, the one thing I really don't like is the clunky cocking mechanism so I cut that off and replace it with a brass ring.

Apart from that its just the usually process of prepping and painting. If your a beginner I wrote a tutorial here

This is a Nerf Rebelle charmed dauntless Blaster

Here are three of my painted ones.

Chtulhu Statue

I do occasional commissions sometimes for props for photo shoots or theatre productions, awhile ago I was commissioned to make a statue for a stage version of The Call of Chtulhu.
It didn't need to be finely detailed obviously and I wanted to be very close to H P Lovecrafts original description. So I started by re-reading the story and getting a copy of the authors original sketch.
This is the description from the story. 

"The figure ... was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way clown toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees. The aspect of the whole was abnormally life-like, "

 This is Lovecrafts sketch.

 I made the statue approximately the same dimensions as the description, it was constructed using what artist sometimes call "mixed media" it sounds better than scraps of wood, bit's of wire and paper mache!
It was painted with acrylic paints.