Included springs in there so the trigger is actually triggerable. The barrels were clockable, so you could actually remove those three tubes you see above the trigger, and the whole thing weighs about 3 kg. Actually, for this, we took apart those BB guns you can buy in China that is capable of chipping cement off the walls and we made replicas of the different parts. Material used were, wood, cardboard, metal pipes, epoxy putty, and plastic. The whole set sold for $450 including the gold armor parts that Vincent wears. But that armor was the easier part. Clive made that in a day. Damn, this gun took weeks!
See that chain at the handle of the gun? That was bought at Comics Connections. $10 in a box including a pin size replica of the lion head on Clouds' left shoulder armor. Lucky!
On a side note, we were the first people on this planet to have made this gun out. Not something to go parading about, but hey, it's good for keeping the records.
Which reminds me, Hasswan decided what the heck, and drew a to-scale plan for an actual firing mechanisim, never got to see that though; There was a potential client that wanted that kind of mechanisim and willing to pay quite high for that. Anyway, the dude drew the plans on blue-print paper, brought it over to the police station to check just incase, and according to him, the policman at the counter had the stun look, called his college, who had the same stun look, then brought him over to a room where they acked for his IC, asked a couple of question, and made him shred the plans then and there......Hmm.
Anyway, due to the many features, the prop's structure isn't strong at all. Actually it broke. And as it turned out, the client didn't need all those functions, the fact the trigger can move is more than good enough. Based on what I could gather, Clive got so excited discussing about the prop with her that she decided to let him go ahead with those features...... Lesson learnt in confirming things.
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