Cyberpunk Nerf Custom Mod for Attack of the Cyber Octopuses short film - "Tina Plasma Gun"

Here I am with the "making of" of the third and last weapon for the three cyberspace detectives! (more info about the project on the official website or facebook page). Again it's a Nerf gun (Roughcut to be precise) with some modifications and paint.

I started as usual by sanding the whole rifle, taking away any logos or text.

Then the weapon was dismounted, masked and prepared for the primer coat.

Here's how it looks after a first layer of gray primer spray paint.

And after black paint...

I then masked away some parts to have metallic blue decorations.

Here the result...

Next step was dry brushing silver acrylic to make it look worn and scratched. As you could have noticed already, there's no fore-end on the final weapon. I preferred to get rid of it, I think it's more "cyber" and less mechanic without it!

Ready for the final touch...

And here's the final result!!!

And the set of three weapons all together!

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Cyber Octopus part 2! - retro futuristic 80s cyberpunk film ATTACK OF THE CYBER OCTOPUSES

Welcome to part 2 of the CYBER OCTOPUS! From this link you can watch the "making of" of part 1.

Basically in this part I dealt with tentacles. The big challenge was to have something movable but sturdy at the same time, to allow easily stop motion or moving the octopus with nylon wires.

Inspired by some online projects, I designed tentacles that are held together with an elastic wire, 5mm thick. The whole printing took lot of time. There are 168 pieces for the tentacles (21x8), and for each tentacle it took approx 8 hours!!

After the first printing, I tested a single tentacle, just to see if it was working... (it was!)

Then I continue the printing... it took me a week more or less, 8 hours a day of printing!

Lot lot lot of pieces...! Then I painted them in black and gold. Again trying to obtain some worn/dirty effect.

Then, like a grandma making a pearl necklace, one by one into the elastic wire, I started to put them in place...

And here is the final Cyber Octopus!!!!

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Cyberpunk Golf GTI 1:24 mod with LEDs for ATTACK OF THE CYBER OCTOPUSES models

I'm keep working on ATTACK OF THE CYBER OCTOPUSES film project, modding 80s plastic car models to be adaptes as flying cars! As you can read on the official website, the whole project is almost without CGI, but using practical effects and miniature models.

Today I'm showing the "making of" of a Golf GTI 16V! Very 80s....

First of all I drilled holes for the LEDs, 5mm for the front ones, 3mm for the rear ones.

I then sanded the whole body and painted in dark blue metallic.

Here is the body with further details and some dry brush with silver acrylic. As for the whole project, I like a worn, "dirty" effect.

I then smoked the windows, for a more cyber, futuristic effect.

Here's the model with the interior.

I then 3D printed the biggest modification of the car, the engines that makes it fly!

The engines have a hole to house perfectly a 5mm LED.

I then glued my 3D printer mod to the base of the car and dry brushed a bit.

Here is how it looks from the bottom. Pretty cool, uh? "Back to the Future" kind of thing... ;)

Trickiest part, the LEDs wiring.

I used 9 LEDs total, with a switch and powere by a 9V battery. Here the first test on switching it on:

And here the final fancy photos of the car, ready to fly in the sky of Neo-Berlin, 2079 AD!!!

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Cyberpunk Nerf Custom Mod for Attack of the Cyber Octopuses short film - "Maverick Plasma Gun"

Here the "making of" for another weapon of ATTACK OF THE CYBER OCTOPUSES film project.

Again it's a Nerf gun modded and painted. I wanted to keep the same style of the previous one 'cause they are both for the same team members. I like them minimalistic, not many colors, not many wires or LEDs (that, however, will be present in some of the next weapons). This one is actually for the leader of a cyberspace detectives team!

So let's start with some sanding and a bunch of tools!

Then I took apart the gun and masked the shooting mechanism.

And of course the first painting step is to cover the whole thing with gray primer (it's something I do a couple of times, this photo shows the first coat).

Then a couple of layers of matte black spray.

On the barrel too...

I then masked almost everything except some parts where I liked the blue metallic color.

Here's a coat of blue metallic (in this case just one layer was enough).

I sprayed blue also the barrel, then I dry painted everything with silver details, for a little "worn" and scratched effect. Here's how it looks like, compared to the previous gun.

And here the final fancy photos of the weapon!

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