Space 1999 Sidearm
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As a young child in the 70's, I had one of these. The stun gun toy I had launched mini projectile disks. While I'm a bit old to be playing with such things, I do like to keep miscellaneous toys and props laying about my office area. I found metaform3d's model here on Thingiverse and thought it was AWESOME! This handheld weapon used on the series changed frequently, and it would appear the most significant factor in the frequent changes and discrepancies is a result of damaged props. The first time we get a decent view of the weapon is in "Breakaway". In a skirmish at nuclear disposal facility 2, commander Koenig drops his sidearm. While it's odd the prop would become damaged so early on into the pilot episode, I'm giving it a 50/50 chance. Still, I wanted for my stun gun to most closely resemble what should be the original weapon. I used metaform3d's model as a reference for the overall scaling of the weapon, but did a low poly redesign of the body and made all the surface mount features independent, with accompanying 1mm deep cutouts on the body for fitment. The buttons, knobs, and faces for each are all new. The nozzles and trigger is new. I did borrow metaform3d's grip as I like the look and feel of it. It may also be that my pathetic attempt to design a comfortable and usable grip ended in complete failure, but I'll never tell... :) Basically, this design is close to how we first see the weapon. No "stun/kill" slider, two staggered buttons alongside the grip on either side, and no button beneath the grip. I recessed the line alongside the barrels and the "L" shape at the bottom of the handle so that I could use an ultrafine sharpie to blacken those lines. Even at 1080, it's difficult to tell if those are cut into the body or simply painted on. I printed the body, nozzles, buttons, and knobs in silver silk PLA, the grip, the magazine, the trigger and 8 of the button caps in black, two button caps in red, and two in green. Aside from gluing everything together and running the sharpie through the grooves, there was no post processing involved with my build. I print all parts as oriented in the STL files with no supports, except for the grip. I printed the grip as oriented in the STL but with supports in tree mode and a density of 5%. The total build of this model requires the following: 1 body "silver" 1 grip "black" 1 mag "black" 1 trigger "black" 2 knobs "silver" 2 knob caps "black" 10 buttons "silver" 10 button caps "assorted colors" 4 nozzles "silver" UPDATE 12312021: I added a STL named "SGV2_Striping.stl" which contains printable stripes that can be glued to the sunken grooves that I'd previously colored with an ultrafine sharpie. The faces of the printable stripes are 2mm wide, and, IMO, look much better than the sunken grooves colored with a sharpie. I'll attach a photo.
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