First Blaster Attempts

[Blackbird]

I'd like some opinions on my first attempts at blaster building.
The character I have created is primarily a beast hunter so these are supposed to look like a hunters tools and not commando weapons.
First is my sidearm.  It is intended to be a dart gun.


The base is a cheap electronic cowboy gun from Big Lots.  I cut off the stock and added some junk I have lying around like the cap to a stick of deodorant for the power pack and a broken continuity tester as a spare dart.  It's intended to be slipped over the end and used against larger animals.  The claw at the end is made of sculpey and is intended to be a Trandoshan claw.

Next is my primary blaster.


The base for this is a Big Buck Hunter (or something) game I found for $5.  I used 2 halves from a broken Harbor Freight cutting tool and glued them to the sides.  The barrel is a piece from a Count Dooku lightsaber toy.  The tooth at the end is intended to be a small Sarlaac tooth (you can't tell very well from the pics but the end is curved up).  It's smaller at the base because that is supposed to be the root, and it's darker near the tip because of carbon scoring from the blaster.  It is carved from a cone of green floral foam from walmart and covered with layers of elmers glue to give the foam stability.  I also added a thin layer of JB Weld and several coats of enamel paint.

Here is a pic of them together.


Does anyone have any opinions?

[Lasruin Toth Lan]

the one with the claw on the butt looks awsome , the other one ,the bayonet looks way to big , it's just not in scale with the rest of the gun , you could probably get away with just the leather wrap and get rid of the bayonet altogether. Maybe use it as a knife or trophy , but other than that the look the mutts ***** 

very well done

[Niabi]

The 1st one is Awesome vod

Im not keen on the 2nd one. Its the Tooth that spoils it for me, it just looks a little too front heavy.  It might look good with a scope instead of the tooth? just an idea.

[Kel T Skirata]

Ive said before i loved the look of the first one, Maybe you should try the same with the second one and add the tusk at the butt end some how. 

[Audetpai]

I like both, but I do see what people are saying about the tooth thingie on the second one. I might nick some ideas from these to improve my weapons later.

[Ori Dart]

FIrst one is awesome (as you can well figure by the replies). I agree about the tooth on the second one. Ditch the tooth and slap a scope on it (backwards, of course).

[rdhawk]

Keep the tooth from the second one as an on-body trophy, but put something else on the front of the gun. It does look too front-heavy to be wieldy.