Hey all,
Frequent lurker, first time poster.
Girlfriend and I are big in the costume/prop scene, but rarely post here. She built her own marine a few years back, yall might know her as Hydra...but her and I are working on our ODST outfits currently and I had bought this kit while I was deployed to Afghanistan and finally got around to building it. I've seen Tactonyx's work, and frankly, his work is pretty darn good, but I wasn't really impressed with my kit. It was a bit warped and had a lot of flash and airbubbles, but we made due.
Here is a pic of it recently put together:
His kit boasts moving slide and trigger mech, but the weakness of the lower receiver guide rails made that un-doable after they broke very quickly. So the only thing that moves on this is the Magazine, we used the "safety magnet" in the mag and put a metal plate in the grip to hold it in place. Everything else is completely static. The barrel extension was a bit warped and and the tac light lower was full of airbubbles and had alot of flash in some of the detailed areas, so I ended up cutting some of the details out. I also added a working LED flashlight with a push button into the lower taclight. Now the girlfriend can come up to some of yall at conventions and blind you
But I will take some more detailed pictures, especially once she finishes the paint job. We are a good team and she is definitely the better painter. But just throwing it up for everyones judgement.
Thanks everyone!
Frequent lurker, first time poster.
Girlfriend and I are big in the costume/prop scene, but rarely post here. She built her own marine a few years back, yall might know her as Hydra...but her and I are working on our ODST outfits currently and I had bought this kit while I was deployed to Afghanistan and finally got around to building it. I've seen Tactonyx's work, and frankly, his work is pretty darn good, but I wasn't really impressed with my kit. It was a bit warped and had a lot of flash and airbubbles, but we made due.
Here is a pic of it recently put together:
His kit boasts moving slide and trigger mech, but the weakness of the lower receiver guide rails made that un-doable after they broke very quickly. So the only thing that moves on this is the Magazine, we used the "safety magnet" in the mag and put a metal plate in the grip to hold it in place. Everything else is completely static. The barrel extension was a bit warped and and the tac light lower was full of airbubbles and had alot of flash in some of the detailed areas, so I ended up cutting some of the details out. I also added a working LED flashlight with a push button into the lower taclight. Now the girlfriend can come up to some of yall at conventions and blind you
But I will take some more detailed pictures, especially once she finishes the paint job. We are a good team and she is definitely the better painter. But just throwing it up for everyones judgement.
Thanks everyone!
