Colonial Marines Pulserifle 1/1 Scale
I have enough trouble clearing up my own mess and if there is one thing guranteed to tick me off in certain fashion, it's clearing up someone else's mess. These two monstrosities come into that category. Friend of a friend had 2 friends with 2 pulse rifles, supposedly cast from real props yadda yadda. Well what I ended up with were two lumps of hollow cast horror they had paid a fair amount for, 3 figure fair amount. Anyways, my job to try and sort 'em out. After much clean up and knowing that the almost banana shaped one just couldn't be straightened out, I proceede to put spring loaded triggers in and lit ammo counters.

After much sanding, filling, sawing, cursing, hammering, filling and thoughts of throwing the pillock who cast them off the white cliffs of Dover I arrived at a sort of finishline with the help of a pair of rifle slings I had hangin' about. Not strictly correct but to be blunt, these had &$%£@# me off enough so I was just wanting to close the deal, only just so much a modeler can take. Auto spray and enamels made up the paintwork and the barrels were replaced with brass tube(possibly the only part on the rifle that was actually bloody straight). I have to admit I was glad to be shot of these two and I actually didn't charge the fellas a great deal as I felt they had already suffered enough with the wassock who had flogged them these two...things. Well I could go on but I think enough said about this little episode.