Moon Bear Armaments: The LL27

Here's a brand new Raygun for you constant viewers. It's picture heavy so brace yourselves.

I originally found this old drill at an estate sale and fell in love. A few minutes later I had it in my mitts and I was on my way back to the lab to bury it like a nut for winter.

I took all it's guts out and made an inventory of what was cool and what wasn't. Turns out almost all of it was sweeeeeeet looking inside. I had a bolt from something or other and wound a copper wire through the threads. I think this looks pretty cool. Stuck that into the center of some JB welded pieces and I was in business

The crescent shape there was the connector that attached the paint bucket on The Yellowjacket when I first got it.

I added the curved pinkie holder because when I was holding the thing I always felt like I was going to drop it. Maybe people in the 1940's had smaller hands when this was made, who knows. Now this thing sat around for about two months looking like this because I couldn't find the right piece to finish it.

Until I found this fin! Wooo! Now I was able to dig in and get it finished.

I wanted this Raygun to have that special something extra to set it apart. That's why I wired it with lights. :] This was my first time wiring anything to a switch and a 9 volt power source. It was a whole lot of fun to figure out.

Check out those wiring skills!

After a few hours (I know it shouldn't have taken so long) I had this thing wired up. This was the first test to see if everything was working. I used a scientific rubber band to assist with the trigger squeezins.

Time to paint! It already looked pretty filthy so I just added some grime to the cracks. At the last minute I added a little orange plastic nub on the bottom that catches the light when you pull the trigger. Sortof ties the whole thing together imo. You can see it in the pics below. Also Erin, I made sure it was dry before I put it on our nice white chair. :D