How to make a district 9 Weapon

Step 13 The details part1

There are a lot of details with this weapon, this is a briefly outline of each of the items built the pictures should provide most of the information required for construction.

The rectangles that run the length of the barrel are made from framing card. This thicker card material was cut into the appropraite shapes and then aligned to a base piece of card, when complete the whole row was glued to the side of the barrel.

The large grey panel on the side of the weapon was formed from a thin sheet of pink foam. Once cut to the right shape the corners were rounded with sanding paper, and then the edges were tapered to give it the right look. This is painted a grey colour and then stuck directly to the side of the weapon.

The cross was carved in an offcut of pink foam. The offcut was quite thick so this piece was cut in half and used on both sides of the gun. The bolts were made with smaller again with pink foam. The small circles were glued onto the square and then the end of a paintbrush used to put dimples in the top. Once painted they look like the heads of bolts. I would use this method to put bolts in all the other places of the weapon, if I were to do this again.