/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

More Nausicaa progress. I was working on the muzzle of the rifle and getting frustrated with how weird it looked. I was basing the muzzle off of how it looked on a Nausicaa figurine, but in the film and manga it is quite slim, so I realized I needed to remake it. The original foam one can be seen in the bottom photo.

So I decided to remake it with sintra. Honestly styrene would've been easier but the sheets I had on hand were too thin. I made a pattern in 3mm craft foam then cut out the sintra on my scroll saw and used a heat gun to wrap it around the barrels. Not bad! I'm still working on not getting textures and dents in my sintra, I THINK its because I'm heating it too close, but for now I fix it with sanding and filler primer. To finish it off gotta bondo the seams and the top of that lower section where the musket cleaning rod goes in.

I also discovered that epoxy resin DOES NOT eat EPS foam! A really nice guy on this forum did a test with photos to prove it, so I went out to my local Hobbytown and bought some 15 min epoxy resin to clear coat the EPS foam stock for the rifle so it won't break at dragon*con. Still so much left to do!!