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Big Damn Hero Gun

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

After I got my FF Companion V.2 I got a powerful hankerin' for my very own Big Dam Hero gun. Blame it on Jayne's Le Mat, I guess.
The original plan was to buy a Civil War era black powder piece and do a treatment on it like Mal's. The Spiller & Burr was perfect: shiny brass frame and octagon barrel. But, the more research I did the more it occurred to me I could prolly build one. How hard could it be? A whole lot gorram tougher than I thunk.
Anyways, she ain't purty like Mal's, nor as ugly as Jayne's. She walks, talks, cocks and locks (most of the time), but don't go bang. Still workin' on the futuristic add-on bits.

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PHYRELIGHT

Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:50

Shiny (literally)!

Strangly, though, guns kinda scare me, so there is a part of me that is delighted that it don't go bang.

B1GDAMNH3R0

Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:53

wait, you BUILT that?!?

That's just really REALLY amazaing

JOHNTHUNDER

Thursday, 13 December 2007 17:36

Yup. Just sorta looked through my junk pile and said I can use this for that, and that for this., etc. Kinda homely lookin', but not bad for a first go. It was always intended as a wall-hanger anyways, something I could take down & fondle when the mood struck. Timing's a bit off, and some pieces aren't fit up as accurate as I like, but what the hey. With the dummy cylinder and barrel it ain't all that important. Now if I could find some of them green stick-on caps I could make some noise.

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