Tekwar Pulse Gun - Orlow 34S

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Well it has been a very long time coming, and I finally managed to get my hands on the original file again, but unfortunately, I had to start from scratch all over again. However, here's my take on the larger of the two pulse guns used in the Tekwar Movies. From memory, it was only featured in the movies Tekwar, Teklords, and Tekjustice, albeit briefly in Tekjustice, but it was probably the chunkiest and coolest-looking future weapon out there. "Technically non-lethal" unless you look at the game, in which case it can make a mess of someone. And I've made this fully functional as seen in the movies; the handle folds and slides, the sight on top can be raised and lowered, the front barrel can slide as well as the grip on the barrel can slide too. This prop also made a brief appearance towards the end of the first season of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, but it will always be tied to Tekwar in my mind. There are a lot of parts to this and I took a guess at what to name them, but generally all you need to worry about is that if it has an "x2" after the part name, you need two of them. I did have to redesign the mechanism which holds and allows the front part of the gun to slide as in the movies, and getting this function to work was a little challenging. I'm happy for someone to redesign this part to be easier to use. I've also included the graphic for the screen as best as I could make out from low-res movie shots and a YouTube video made by a guy who picked up the retired prop at a props auction, I think. And to top it all off, the stand in the photos is a laser-cut pattern I made for an exhibition cut from 6mm acrylic and I've included a DXF of this file as well. This was printed on a Flashforge Guider II, High Quality, so the tolerances are good, but I also allowed a 1/4mm tolerance between parts and at this level of quality, it gave me a good fit. Painting it was using acrylic spray, primed and filled, and then painted with a stainless steel color for the "coils" etc. and metallic midnight blue for the rest. Assembly was a challenge but all parts of the same color were assembled first, then painted, and finally assembled afterwards. The blue coils and gold middle parts had to be put in as one piece into the back part of the gun, the front grip was assembled into the lower part of the barrel with the holder inside this part of the barrel before being glued to the silver part of the barrel... A little confusing perhaps but hopefully the exploded image assists with assembly. I hope this makes sense. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.