The Hearsch Angocoellum Rifle: A functional Steam/Cyber Punk Rifle

Step 10 Trouver les gizmos et arrangement

ok horrible franglais aside this is a real fun part! finding the little bits and bobs to steampunk or cyberpunk your creation . . .whichever (or both) you prefer! again . . .I'm nowhere near an expert on this genre so if I use a wrong word or term correct me but don't kill me eh?

slowly and with an almost reverent air they removed the screws from the aluminum box,
pried the lid off and were met with the most dazzling cache of useful devices imaginable

Materials:

• old mechanically operated devices. . .broken computer equipment is perfect!
• electric motors that don't work
• some lego sets have great gears
• flat black spray paint
• flat black brush on paint

*rub n buff (or other gilding)

• soapy water to get grease off of things
• glue/epoxy

Tools:

• philips screwdrivers in a variety of sizes for all the various screws
• standard screwdriver for prying
• adventurous, inquisitive, and imaginative mind . . .you've got to picture how parts will look stuck together and painted . . .

intro in in plain english: . . .grab your old broken floppy, cd, and hard drives and anything else mechanical and broken and pry them open. You'll see all sorts of wonderful gizmos that work great for this type of thing!

Be careful! the casings are almost always sharp and it only takes one slip with the screwdriver to give you half of a stigmata.

Don't use good working parts since they're useful to someone . . .there's plenty of people in need . . .

Some of my favorite items that can be found:

• Electromagnetic armatures(they're those flowery things with tons of copper wire wrapped around little arms) from any motors . . .floppy drives are really great since theirs are huge and have many arms!! but there's one in nearly every electric motor!
• copper shims and spacers present all through motors and stuff
• springs if tightly coiled and flexible make great little cooling type coils when bent into a 'U' shape!
• plastic gears can be painted up and look great cdrom drives have a bunch of these
• steel rails from cd rom drives are great as is but can be heated and bent into nice shapes
• ribbon cable looks great with a black undercoat and copper dry brushing . .some are already coppery!
• hex nuts are awesome when jb welded to other pieces and there's tons of those to be found
• I'm a big fan of the little optical pieces of cd rom drives as is . . .the make great little assemblies but they can be disassembled too and often you'll find things like mini mirrors and prisms!

Quick note on arrangement . . .these items don't have to actually work together but do bear in mind that they should at least appear to serve some specific purpose . . .throwing a bunch of junk together may look ok but it will look infinitely better if it's got some overruling principle or apparent purpose. . .if it looks like it would do something and work then mission accomplished!

Try a few different arrangements and see what you like . . .this is probably the second most artistic part of the whole process (second to the initial overall design) so make it count!

Take pictures of each arrangement so that after you're done you can compare them all and re assemble the best one!

I used the shapes drawn on my gun design to help guide the design of the gizmos . . .it's limiting but it gets the creative juices flowing!

Hoses can be difficult if you don't want to buy anything but coated wires are serviceable you don't strip them and connect them to logical places

this step can be done at any time after the initial design so if you're bored waiting for something to dry or don't want to work on another part this is always a great way to work the both sides of your brain at the same time!