How to make a district 9 Weapon

Step 14 The details part 2

The triangular detail on the side of the gun was made by cutting into a thin sheet of pink foam, the end of a pen was used to create a rounded impression for the larger circle. The foam was placed on a piece of card and then painted, later to be mounted on the side of the weapon.

The heatsink on the top of the weapon, near the power cell was another block of pink foam. The fins of the heatsink were made by folding a piece of card and gluing it along the edge of the block.

The heatsink for the side panel was made in a similar fashion, this time 5 of the fins were made longer than the others and angled to point in towards the centre of the circle. The semicircular heatsink was made from pink foam, the impressions were made with the edge of some pliers, edge ridge points towards the centre again. The box and the circle were made with funky foam, this allows an impression to be made in the foam which shows after painting. In hindsight the circle should also have an inner impression. The tubing detail was made by applying some hot glue direclty to the backing plate, this gives a solid half rounded look to the item. The whole plate was painted with a dark colour and the gun metal paint was used to dry brush over the top, giving it a metallic look.

The saw teeth on top of the barrel are made from balsa wood, (as the close up shows how rough they are it would perhaps be better to make them out of foam), the shape they sit on was made from cardboard with a foam center for solidity.