I've been watching Episodes of Dark Angel that I taped back when it was on Fox. It's been interesting to watch again some of the episodes still had commercials on them, from over 10 years ago, beer and cars they don't make any more, 'new' tv shows long canceled, the vancouver events thing they used to do. And commercials for the simpsons. Being a vancouver show it has actors that are in other vancouver shows. A lot of the younger battlestar galactica actors were in dark angel, mostly season 2. Then I noticed Ryan Robbins from sanctuary in an episode selling stolen art and getting thrown out of a building.
Amanda Tapping had another auction of stuff from her TV shows to support sanctuaryforkids a charity she helps run. A vest I thought looked great on her sold for $760.00.
I thought it would be an interesting project and challenge to make one like it for Adria, but my recent sewing efforts show my skills aren't there yet. And I can't think of other people I would rather make it for.
I decided to try to find a picture of the pistol with charms in the box that Baby Doll is given in Sucker Punch and found on on the Replica prop forum.
It linked me to a cool gun website that I have since spent hours looking threw. Internet Movie Firearms DataBase. One of the movie pages I checked out was 'the big hit' a goofy Mark Walberg movie, which I then noticed had Robin Dunne in the credits, another actor from Sanctuary, as 'gump' the stoner who can't form a sentence. From Sanctuary commentaries I know he's a fairly 'method' actor, and a bit of a jack ass, so he would have been that character on set too.
It has TV shows too, at some point I looked up Stargate SG-1 and it had a couple of good pictures of Carter's (Amanda Tapping) cool gun from season 7, listed as 'the Carter Special', created partly because blanks for the FN P90 they were using a lot of got expensive. It's one of the guns I've thought of one day making a replic of, along with all the other projects I have in mind.
I would paint the end of the barrel shoud to match and make the foregrip match the thumb hole stock, but I think it has a cool look to it.
I found another interesting gun website that sell antique firearms. One of the tings I've thougth og doing if I won the lotto was buying a collection of guns, or replicas of historical note. Steps in the evolution of guns, threw which you can see the casting, machining, design and material science progression of human technology. The Rifle Shoppe has a great selection of kits to make firearms from the 1400's up to the 1850's and A Uberti Firearms sells replicas of wild west guns. But that leave a few military weapons from I think a very important time period out, the change over from percussion cap to cartridged firearms. And while I'm not a stickler for orginality, especialy when safety would be an isuse, there is still something about the 'real thing'. International Military Antiques bought pallets and tons of antique guns from the Old Palace of Lagan Silekhana in Katmandu, Nepal; along with where ever else that can find to do that. There is a salt mine in the Ukraine where the Russians stored 7 million guns starting from the 1900's for example. But back to Katmandu, they have Martini Henry's but so do I. I just realized they don't let you link their pictures.
1864 Snider breech loading conversion for $600
Three band Enfield rifles $900
1837 Brunswick rifle $1,200
1853 Sharpes percussion cap rifle just looking at it you can see it's one tiny step away from firing cartridged bullets, $2,000
In 1776 Patrick Ferguson patiented one of the first breach loading rifles, now know as the Ferguson rifle. About 100 were made, by 4 gunsmiths in England, One is for sale Yes it's $40,000, but it's out there, after 236 years. I would buy the kit from the rifle shoppe for $1,800.
And if you read this far here's a cool video that Joss Whedon made
That is the best explanation of time I have heard