OK-This one is a toy...

I built this one with my six-year old over my shoulder the whole time. I got him to help me paint it and pick out parts for it. When I was done, I gave it to him; he couldn't believe it and spent the day zapping imaginary aliens.

This is mostly a repaint, with a new tip and an antennae thrown in for good measure. It was more an experiment to see what I could do with this base. Have some ideas for future projects later down the road.

Still a pretty smart-looking ray gun...

New Ray Gun

This is the newest addition to the arsenal, and is one my favorites. Its mostly a repaint of a toy gun I found at the store, with some additions fastened throughout. I started working on it around the time that I made the first batch of guns, and it looked more like this:

There had been a slit in the back of the casing where a tension lever stuck out to help propel darts. I took the lever out and covered it with electrical tape. I then added adhesive brads to the tape to resemble bolts.By the time I painted it, it looked pretty good. Still pretty cool, but I wanted to add some more to it; the hole in the grip was bugging me a bit.

 The green nodes are screw covers stuck to a decorative coat button, with little metal doodads glued to the ends.

I added a washer and a toy antennae-ish thing to the barrel. I found a cool meshy material that fit over the gap in the handle, and the gun started coming together. There was a fin at the front of the barrel that I shaved off so that it would holster better.






Overall, it came out pretty good.

Steam-Bot!!!

I call this guy Steamhead, and I built him about a year ago, but just finished the paint job recently. He is truly an assemblage piece, using all sort of plastic odds & ends and mostly held together by a bunch of wire, and some good fortune.

I love the pot-belly stove look and the steampipe for a head. The face came out rather well, and definitely has a victorian gentlemanly look. The mustache cracks me up...

Again, a bunch of random pieces and clippings from other items. The mouthpiece is actually part of a foil doily (I think).The head was originally going to hang from the chest on a rod and look much more menacing. I'm glad I went this way with it though; he looks much cooler like this.

For some reason, I don't have pics of the back. There is keyhole in the back, that actually fits a small key. Sadly, the key doesn't really do anything; you'll just have to use your imagination.

Book Cover Above the Aether...

The premier of my friend Win Strock's steampunk novel is quickly approaching and now has a cover (which sadly, I didn't provide), but it is pretty good nonetheless. Very excited...

He also runs a cool blog as well, and is worth checking out:

http://adventures-above-the-aether.blogspot.com/

Cheers.

Steampunk Art Groups

I've been on deviantArt.com for a while now and some of my work has been added to a couple of retro sci-fi groups; a very awesome community. Some very cool steampunk and related objects of curiosity there. Check them out...

http://dieselpunkmachine.deviantart.com/

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http://nikola-teslapunk.deviantart.com/

Retro Rocket

Just came across this in a file on my computer. I did this about four or five years ago as a set of decorations for a kid's room. Thought it appropriate, so here it is...

Now on deviant ART

I now have a gallery on deviant ART. If you're not familiar, this is a great online artistic community and you can spend a lot of time surfing the galleries. I will still post everything here as well, along with other steampunk/ray gun related stuff.

My gallery is at:

http://kenlaber.deviantart.com/

Keep zap'n!!!