Tekwar Pulse Gun - Orlow 34S

myminifactory

It's been a while coming, and I'm starting over from scratch because I lost the original file, but here's my take on the larger of the two pulse guns used in the Tekwar movies. From memory, it was only seen in Tekwar, Teklords, and Tekjustice, albeit briefly in Tekjustice, but it was probably the chunkiest and coolest-looking future weapon ever. "Technically non-lethal" unless you look at the game where it can make a mess of someone. 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, and 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 project, and I had to take some guesses 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'll need two of them. I did have to redesign the mechanism that holds and allows the front part of the gun to slide as seen in the movies, and getting this function to work was a little challenging. I'm happy for someone to come up with a better design. 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, which I've included as a DXF file. This was printed on a Flashforge Guider II with high-quality settings, 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 used acrylic spray, primed and filled, then painted in stainless steel color, metallic midnight blue for the "coils" etc. Assembly was a challenge, but all parts the same color were assembled first, then painted, and finally assembled afterwards. The blue coils and gold middle parts had to be put together 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.