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I'm still cracking away on installment #23 of the Satyr!Crack, and hope to have it up sometime tonight/early this morning(depending on time zones and whether you've been to bed yet or not - I haven't). But I thought I'd share my latest doll-related project in the interim.

This is Davlin's Chaos Pistol, courtesy of some leather, some old watch bits, a few tiny transistors (stolen from a computer motherboard), a fuse or two, some dollhouse-scaled test tubes, some ink, some metallic enamel paint, some copper wire, lots of Super Glue, and a pair of micro-switches that I liberated from one of the junk bins in the hospital Maintenance department. The base of the gun body itself is a flintlock pistol keychain. I've been working on it for several days (mostly in downtimes at work), and it's nearly done - I just have to add the "battery leads" that go up to Davlin's side to actually pull the chaos energy out of him, and it'll be ready to roll.

Also, the belt was made using a strip of leather and the buckle from a watchband, and the little bottle on his left side used to hold Nitro (found empty on the counter in the ER, snagged before it could end up in the trash can).

The gun in its holster, on Davlin's belt:



Close-up of the control box (the two switches are functional, though they don't actually do anything):


The gun in a Soom jointed hand, WS (right side view of the gun):


A view of the left side of the gun (please excuse my fingers):



I had so much fun making this, I'm tempted to see if there's any interest in Steampunk weapon commissions on DoA.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiyakotari.livejournal.com
Ah, but no hot glue was used! ^_^ I tend to burn the SHIT out of myself whenever I pick up a glue gun, so I have Super Glue instead (gluing my fingers together is preferable to burning them, since the glue WILL dissolve if I get my hand into acetone quickly enough, before it sets), which holds like a mofo. It's a cyanoacrylate compound, I believe (though don't quote me on that) that's similar to a quick-setting epoxy. I always give it a full 24 hours to set all the way, just to make sure it's a firm hold.

Glad you like it!

Date: 2008-12-30 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twigling.livejournal.com
My bad, I totally read that you had used hot glue to hold it all together, but of course it says Super Glue now that I am re-checking. Excellent work!!! Hope you do more XD

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