{"id":13105,"date":"2020-07-15T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13105"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:17:40","slug":"warhammer-40k-plasma-pistol-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/warhammer-40k-plasma-pistol-prop\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40k Plasma Pistol prop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I saw this plasma pistol prop on thingiverse<\/a> a while ago and its been in the back of my mind as a possible build for a while. As I wanted something to distract me that wasn’t too mentally challenging during the COVID lockdown, I broke out a roll of filament and started printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many blessings to the machine god ensured it ran smoothly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a really nicely designed project. It’s broken into logical pieces and the sub-assemblies all go together really well. After many days of the printer running constantly, I had the parts run off and ready for priming… and sanding… and priming… and…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It needed lots and lots of sanding to get smooth. Followed by priming with spray putty. I got through nearly a whole can of the stuff as well as grey primer. It was really hard to find some of the bit that needed redoing sometimes and it wasn’t until I thought I’d finished a pieces, i’d find another one that needed to be reworked a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The plasma coil\/core\/hot bit was painted seperatly and hit with loads of lacquer to ensure it was nice and glossy. I’m not great with an airbrush but it came out well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Painty painty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loads of test fitting to make sure it was all coming along ok.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once I was happy with the basic paint job, it was time to start sticking together and filling bits that needed to be filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plenty of oil paint on the dangerous end. Blues, browns and blacks to get a proper grimy look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then one final attempt to look ‘ard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Its a weighty beast, coming in at over 700g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has a new owner already and will be joining him once the lockdown is a little less lockydowny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find me and all my WIP stuff on my Facebook page<\/a> or my Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this plasma pistol prop on thingiverse a while ago and its been in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,45],"tags":[470,328,483,399,377,392],"class_list":["post-13105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-warhammer","tag-3d-printing","tag-40k","tag-model","tag-model-making","tag-prop","tag-warhammer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t