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Arasaka HLR-12X Heavy Laser Cannon

The big Army laser cannon that Kaneda busts out at the end of Akira, a landmark 1988 animated feature film. The Kaneda fig isn't anything special, he's just there to pose the weapon.

 

I took a Brickarms Heavy Laser Cannon prototype (with Viewfinder), drilled out the barrel and filed down the front of the viewfinder in order to insert trans-clear and trans-blue styrene rods, respectively. The battery pack is scratchbuilt from styrene, a cotter pin, insulated wire and craft ribbon. Then painted. I treated the trans styrene and viewfinder display with Future after dullcoating the entire thing.

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Uploaded on August 26, 2010
Taken on August 25, 2010