My day yesterday was joyously filled with tons and tons of painting! I got started on two awesome folding chairs (more on those later), and did a resin gun prop start to finish! I took it from the resin mold to looking like the original Malcolm Reynolds pistol from the show Firefly. While I didn't actually do the resin mold myself, all of the detail and paint work was done completely by hand.
So, here was my starting point: not bad, just really boring. All of the pieces are there, just none of the coloring. Unfortunately, I'm really awful at taking "in progress" shots (and this one is a stock photo from the ordering website: http://www.therpf.com/f9/mal-reynolds-firefly-pistol-10604/ ), but I'll still talk through most of what I did...
I started by sanding it down with 60 grit sandpaper to make the paint more easily adhere to the resin. Then I migrated out to my garage and went to my trusted Rustoleum spray paint. I sprayed a coat of bright silver over the entire gun, making sure to get into all the nooks and crannies, let it dry, flipped it over, and did a coat on the reverse side.
From there, I started doing more research: pictures, information, and finding all the necessary things to delineate this gun from a real one (a half inch orange tip on the end of the barrel is customary). I found some pictures helpful, and others not as much, so I chose one that was the original, and one that I thought would have the best detailing that I could duplicate - duplicating a metal look on resin isn't quite as easy as it sounds.
I started by sanding it down with 60 grit sandpaper to make the paint more easily adhere to the resin. Then I migrated out to my garage and went to my trusted Rustoleum spray paint. I sprayed a coat of bright silver over the entire gun, making sure to get into all the nooks and crannies, let it dry, flipped it over, and did a coat on the reverse side.
From there, I started doing more research: pictures, information, and finding all the necessary things to delineate this gun from a real one (a half inch orange tip on the end of the barrel is customary). I found some pictures helpful, and others not as much, so I chose one that was the original, and one that I thought would have the best detailing that I could duplicate - duplicating a metal look on resin isn't quite as easy as it sounds.
Once both sides were dry, I was able to bring it inside, and I used brown acrylic paint to add all the necessary detail to the upper portion of the gun. I used an artist brush to add the color, and a rag to help get rid of any obvious or unnecessary strokes and amplify the detail.
After I had the detail mostly done with the top half, I moved to the stock of the gun, where I broke out a second paint color - this time red - to make the wood look. I didn't use the rag nearly as much on the stock, this way I could make it look more wooden. I added some browns to give it depth, and I hung it from the trigger to dry.
After a few hours, I did the orange tip to make sure the gun could be distinguished from the real thing and left it to hang overnight.
After I had the detail mostly done with the top half, I moved to the stock of the gun, where I broke out a second paint color - this time red - to make the wood look. I didn't use the rag nearly as much on the stock, this way I could make it look more wooden. I added some browns to give it depth, and I hung it from the trigger to dry.
After a few hours, I did the orange tip to make sure the gun could be distinguished from the real thing and left it to hang overnight.
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