Hi all. After many years of mulling, my brother and I decided to tackle our own custom prop project. We'd always wanted a replica of the Moonraker Laser Pistol; as an official prop was never made and reference materials are sketchy at best, we decided to put together our own take on the gun:
We started out with a Dixco timing gun which we removed all the innards from. We then added in a custom light kit including a flashing SMD and switch. After some strategic wiring and placement, the trigger now activates the pulsating light.
As there are no definitive reference pics of the assembly of the rear of the gun (not to mention the fact that there were so many different on screen versions in the movie) we decided to go in another direction and had some custom chrome Drax Industries logo pins made and adapted since the logo was so prominent in the film.
In case you're wondering about the white buttons, after reviewing some screencaps from our Moonraker BluRay it was pretty clear that one of the guns Drax held on Bond had three protrusions on one side and two on the other so we went with that layout. We also really didn't see any black border around them, so we left them white.
Lastly, there is the custom made base with laser etched Drax Industries logo.
Looking forward to adding it to the rest of our Bond collectible collection. This is our first stab at making a custom prop so it was quite a learning process but also a lot of fun to put together. Hope you guys like it (click on each pic for larger versions).
Last edited by TonyDP (26th Dec 2019 22:29)
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