I’m not sure if anyone has asked this before, but I couldn’t find anything about it,so…
What the hell is the material that the grips on the gun are supposed to be made from? In the cartoon it’s always simply brown, so I don’t know if it’s meant to be wood or not. The back one would make sense made of wood, but I always thought the front one seemed find of an odd shape to be wood. I mean, surely you’d simply cut the wood straight, possibly with the finger grips cut into it, rather than the big flared shape with the rounded recess for the wire clamp! Anyone got any ideas?
well to me the grips look like brown cloth. at least to me it does. but seeing other people make an rgb proton gun in real life they seem to use pipe insulation then use either zip ties or hose clamps on it. i dont know why i think it would be cloth tho. just seems it would feel comfortable.
So the front and rear grips don’t match? I really don’t want the rear grip made of foam,but I really can’t work out what the grips were meant to be in the cartoon. I’d like to avoid pipe insulation, since it’s grey, and it’s difficult to paint the stuff. Any other ideas?
I just used brown pipe insulation and zip tied it tight (pictures in my profile of my pack). You can go further and wrap it in cloth if you want it completely accurate, but not necessary
what might actually work great is, that stuff they use for pen grips…not the rubber, but the really soft foam-like stuff, I beleive you can buy it in sheets from craft stores.
Hmm, interesting… I quite like the sound of that idea. I’m not that keen on the idea of covering foam with cloth, since to my mind it wouldn’t make sense in real life. You know you’re gonna be using your pack every day, so why make the grips out of something that would be difficult to keep clean, and could get ripped or damaged easily? And I don’t fancy covering it in electrical tape, since I’m fiberglassing the pack (got four of them to make) and I just feel it would give the image of either sloppy workmanship, or a pack that has been severly damaged and quickly patched up. I mean, just because it’s the cartoon pack, I don’t think there’s any need to lower our high standards!
I’m going to say that in my mind I’ve always seen it as some sort of foam or something else that would make a cushy grip, wrapped tightly in the type of fabric that wind breakers/ parachutes are made of, in brown color of course. The fabric would have to be really tight though. No looseness at all. And sort of twisted around the end to give it a bunched loo. Then zip ties or hose clamps in the middle. At least for the forward barrel anyway. The back grip actually has finger grip grooves, so that may be just like the regular thrower handle only in brown.
