Hello guys this is Svetlana from Kamui
Cosplay and today I want to show you a cool little project
you can craft yourself at home, the Amban Sniper Rifle from
the Mandalorian show.
I think this weapon is one of the coolest props in the Star Wars universe and since my husband Benni already made the blueprint in one of his previous videos,
I thought it’s about time to finally make this thing myself! I used only super accessible and
affordable tools and materials like this thing here is actually mostly
made out of foam scraps and I used like a simple box cutter and like hot glue
and contact cement and so everything is basically
super cheap and simple so you can craft one yourself and well
just follow my instructions in this video because this is the way…
and you can find the download for the blueprint in the video description down
below.
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And now let’s start
with the video! before we start if you want to follow
along with this build make sure to watch the entire video all the way to the end
i will show all the mistakes and errors i made along the way
so make sure you don’t repeat them.
Anyway let’s start with the blueprint
if you watched benny’s blueprint tutorial you saw that he made the first
drawing of this rifle based on a 3d file he found on the internet i already
assumed that it would be not very screen accurate but anyway i wanted to start
crafting and just see how far i get before i
noticed the first mistake so he printed it out for me in original
size i taped all pages together and cut the whole thing out the side
view would be my main reference at least i thought.
So at this point by the way it’s 150 centimeter long so here is a size reference
for the core i decided to use a pvc pipe with a 23 millimeter
outer diameter i placed some marks for the stock
and heated up the plastic carefully with a heat gun
as you can see i only heated up one Small point
so i could bend it into shape here
This way i made sure the pipe would actually
fit into the rifle butt i’m in stock for this project i mainly
used my leftover foam scraps i don’t like to throw stuff away and so
i could turn this pile of trash into a cool prop
now for the buttstock i cut out the shape of my blueprint
grabbed some 10 millimeter high density foam from cosplay shop be
all products are linked in the video description by the way and trace it onto
the material i cut it out super roughly with my box
cutter and also glued some more old scraps together to get a second layer
oh and then i also used some five millimeter foam as well
at the end i had to find a way to cover the whole pvc pipe
so i marked the outline of my heat shaped pipe onto my blueprint
and traced the sten onto my foam
To connect all layers i used contact cement
which i put into a little squeeze bottle first this way the glue isn’t super
smelly and barely releases any fumes next i added a good
amount of hot glue and connected pipe and foam to each other
i also added more two millimeter foam here as well as you can see
then i covered everything with five millimeter foam on top
for the following step i carefully tried to carve the stock into shape but as you
can see i got some pretty nasty holes here not a problem though
i would cover them up later so next i sanded the whole thing nice and smooth
with my dremel and then heat sealed the surface to get
rid of the leftover foam lens i actually used a second print out of my
blueprint to constantly check the
Proportions of my rifle
now to the middle and most complicated part i kept on cutting the blueprint
into smaller sections and basically just tried to guess the basic shape i didn’t
really had a proper plan here and just hoped
everything would work out i made this part pretty much the same way as the
stock since i still had to build in the pipe somehow
so basically i just cut and glued a few pieces together and
kept some space for the pvc rod once i connected everything
i smoothed out the seams then i started searching for some proper reference
photos to get all the details right someone actually uploaded all these
amazing reference photos of a replica from
a comic-con i guess and they were just incredibly helpful
so if you hear this scott kaufman thank
You you
are awesome based on these photos though i noticed that the whole blueprint of
benny was wrong like so wrong
so wrong in fact that i forced him to completely redo the whole thing
i even kept on finding more mistakes while i was working on a project
it was really fun so if you want to craft along and already downloaded the
old blueprint from his previous video there is a completely new and updated
version in our shop now well but the old blueprint was so wrong
that even the base wouldn’t work anymore so i had to rip off the whole thing
clean up the pipe again and add a new base so wrong
next however i could finally prepare some additional layers and start with
the details as you can see working with a proper
blueprint is actually super important
I tried to stay as close as possible to
the new reference photos but the dimensions of my foam layers and the pvc
pipe inside limited me a bit in addition i kept on
using only very simple tools and materials so you can follow along from
home and craft your own mandalorian rifle so
doing everything with a simple dremel was a tiny bit tricky
and didn’t turned out as clean as i wished for the layers on top i used my
blueprint and basically made some wraps for the
main body i marked the areas where i needed to add some glue
and then carefully place this part onto the rifle
some other parts had to be dremeled before and were then
attached as well the whole rifle was basically just
a giant puzzle which i slowly had to
Piece together
i constantly kept on checking my photo references to get an idea of the
thickness of each element this front piece for example looked like
it was much wider than the main body so i used a 10 and 5 millimeter layer
and got pretty close to the original shape i
guess afterwards i could add more elements and
finally began with the smaller details sanding these tiny things was kinda hard
though well and while i tried to do everything
super clean and nice this front thing here looked more and
more like crap so i cut it off from the main body
ripped it off the pvc pipe and made two new walls with separated
elements on top now this looked much better
afterwards i smoothed out more seams
Covered them with more wraps
and did more raids in pokemon go now i sanded a few angles down and all
those details got smaller and smaller next i added this whatever it’s called
thing on top place the tiny little hexagon ring to the side
and added even more tiny little square thingies i believe this part here is
supposed to be a safety button so it would only come to one side right
anyway i cut it out of foam and glued it onto the body
then i went on to the rails next i cut out some five millimeter strips
and placed them piece by piece onto the top of the pipe a little bit of
super glue here and there a layer of two millimeter on top and
some more rail stripes onto the bottom i actually had no idea how the bottom
looked like but i found this image of a mando toy so i
thought this would be right next
I placed some rivets with super glue and
got my reference for the thick golden wires i cut them out of two millimeter
foam carefully rounded the edges with my
dremel and fixed them with super glue as well
i prefer this adhesive mostly for small details
foam dowels are actually great for a few elements as well
oh and then i noticed in the corner of one of my reference photos
that my barrel jacket was still wrong apparently the lower section was
actually thinner than the top so i ripped it off again and placed a
different five millimeter layer instead now for the trigger instead of one 10
millimeter piece i cut out two layers of five millimeter
foam
This way i was just able to get the
shape more precise and only had to clean out the seams i
then glued it piece by piece onto the stock
and kept on setting my puzzle together please ignore these ugly holes in the
stock they will be hidden later promise
the trigger guard was simply wrapped around the grip and got some support
with contact cement done with this part as well
now let me finally fix this ugliness to even out the really huge gaps i used
foam clay from lumens workshop i applied some water so the material
would stick and spread the clay onto my gray foam a
little bit of water helps to dissolve the clay
and even it out even more in addition i worked with flexi filler which is a
little bit like dissolved foam clay
Gosh this was a crazy mess however
i was able to even out the bumps and close the holes
quite easily once dried the surface was still pretty uneven and had drops and
everything luckily foam clay and flexi filler can
easily be sanded and before you ask i used a
sanding sponge here much better now despite of
all the dremel work the seams of the individual layers were still
quite visible so i cut out a few pieces of one millimeter foam
added glue and covered up these areas next i just had to smooth out the edges
a bit looks much better finally i
only had to add a few very last details seriously this is actually my favorite
part seeing how everything comes together
slowly is really exciting
Now to all the itsy bitsy stuff around
the barrel first i placed some marks based on my
blueprints and shortened my pipe with a hand saw
i made a ring here slid it over then made a ring there
and secured everything with contact cement
now the next part had three rounded edges see like in this reference photo
from the set so i slid over some five millimeter foam
and added these two pieces onto the pvc rod next i carefully wrapped a five
millimeter sheet around and squeezed the seam together at the
bottom i applied some forest with a roll of
duct tape and i guess i got quite close to the original shape
then i covered up the open areas cut the excess material away
dremel the rest of it into shape and
Added some two millimeter edges
now the next part was a little bit tricky
this part of the pipe isn’t just round but actually has
eight even sets i looked it up it’s called an octagonal
prism so first i tried it with a five millimeter square with cut
out gaps wrapped around the pipe it created eight edges this way
i smoothed out the gluing seam but the result was
too thick since the round part and the octagonal rod
were actually supposed to be evenly thick
next i grabbed the cut out triangle foam gaps from before
and glued them onto a thinner 19 millimeter pipe
i covered everything in glue and carefully wrapped it with one millimeter
foam
Looked much better last but not least i
super glued it onto the rest of the rifle
next came the weirdly shaped muscle i cut it out of my blueprint and noticed
again that it was all wrong so benny used some more photos
to correct the shape and i got a new template
for the base shape i used a three millimeter thick pvc board which is more
sturdy than foam a box cutter worked well enough to cut
it out but clearly needed a little bit more force than usual
once done this was a great base for the next steps
after separating my patterns and tracing them onto foam
i carefully glued the blades on all parts were then shaped with a dremel
and turned into a pretty cool muscle i cut off more pvc pipe and slid the
muscle
Into it to connect both of these parts
i used a bunch of hot glue and just added more foam rings on top
okay now let’s connect everything and add some more details here and there
the muscle also required these lines which i just cut in
and widened with my heat gun now to the next part the lower pipe i
use this thinner seven millimeter pvc rod as a base
and place two pieces of foam onto both ends
i filled one with hot glue and drilled a hole into the barrel jacket
as you can see i just placed the whole thing with some glue
now these attachments here were basically also just a long two
millimeter stripe of foam which i wrapped around the whole rifle
next pretty much only the sniper scope was missing
i used the pvc pipe with 19 millimeter
Of outer diameter
marked the areas for my foam and wrapped it around the pipe
i also got some filling for the inside and just a few more stripes of two
millimeter foam for the lines i carefully cut into the
material and heated them up to make them more visible
as you can see i constantly worked with the blueprint for reference
benny got feedback from me all the time and adjusted his drawings while i kept
on building the rifle for the attachment i used five
millimeter foam which i heated up and molded directly onto the pipe
now i had to dremel a curved angle into a 10 millimeter foam piece and carefully
connected it to the scope okay attaching this part
was a bit tricky and basically just trial and error i just
kept on cutting the attachment shorter
And shorter
until i figured out the final form well in contact cement was totally fine to
even hold this part into place yes quite happy how it turned
out so far well and this was the final foam build
of my mandalorian rifle it’s surely not perfect but i think i
did a good job provided it’s all eva phone in total this took me
three days to make but i think if i haven’t played so much world of warcraft
at the same time i could have it done in two but hey look
what i got so now it’s finally time for painting
first however i had to heat seal the foam to smooth out the material
and close the pores then benny used a water-based filler called quick seal to
fix all those gaps that were still visible
next he applied three layers of slag
Spont
onto the stock and the muscle these areas were still super rough from all
the sanding work and flexbond is able to smooth that out nicely
also this middle part seemed like it has a rough texture
in the photo reference so instead benny tapped on flexbond here to get this
effect once dried the result looked like this
i wanted to prime the rest of the rifle with plastic so
i cut open a trash bag and placed it on my balcony
then i heated up a can of gummy dip which is like the german version of
placidip in hot water and applied four thick layers of it onto
my rifle once done and dry my mandalorian rifle
was finally ready to be painted by my husband benny
start he grabbed some masking tape and a
Bunch of airbrush paints from valeo
while painting he constantly checked the reference photos on his phone to choose
the right colors first though he applied a layer of
airbrush primer this is just a basic coat for the
upcoming colors next he wanted to paint the parts that
needed to remain black leaving them plain black however would
look very boring so instead he took a dark silver mixed
it with a bit of airbrush thinner and lightly dusted
over all the dark areas then he put a bit of color on his
fingers and dropped them over the surface
this gives him just more control than a brush or a piece of cloth
the result looked like this afterwards he took some masking tape and
secured the areas he just finished
Next it was time for the main body
for this he applied a thicker layer of gunmetal silver but left some shadows in
the corners and even increased them with a dark grey
and then he used his fingers again to add highlights around the edges
and generally make them look dirtier this made it almost look like real metal
he applied the same techniques to paint the main body as well
adding imperfections and smudge like this definitely helps your piece to look
more real afterwards he used a fine brush
and some gold to paint the details on the side
for the tip he first wanted to make it brown like in the reference photos
since i looked at many different references however
i knew that the muscle was actually silver dough
no idea why the replica at the comic con
Has this brown muscle actually
so he applied a base color of silver first and then took a gold
a red and a blue paint if you apply them one after the other
you can create a really cool looking scorch effect finally he masked off some more areas
and then applied gold for the scope holders
brown to the middle piece and more brown to cover the entire buttstock
after removing all the masking tape the base paint was done
next i added a layer of satin spray varnish all over the prop
we actually did all of this outside since the rifle was too long to fit in
our spray booth after it was dry benny grabbed some
black and brown oil paint and began adding some weathering
this paint just takes far longer to dry
And gives you enough time to add shadows
and dirt around your edges benny also used an old sock to dab on a
bit of brown to the middle part adding a bit of oil color here and there
it definitely helps to make your prop look more real
next up was the stock this one was supposed to be out of wood
so benny had to paint on a grain here first he took a white brush some oil
paint and tried to apply a wooden grain it turned out like crap though so he
wiped all of it off again to try something else
for the second attempt he used his airbrush again and went over the stock
with horizontal moves he only applied a bit of darker brown
but after a while this actually began to look like wood
next he took a fine brush and applied a couple of more brown shades by hand
the result looked far better not perfect
But
good enough i think and with this the paint shop was finally done
as well altogether benny worked around two more days on the paint job
but i think it was worth it now we just had to fix the oil paint with another
coat of spray varnish and the mandalorian rifle was done this was a really fun little project
the result surely didn’t turned out perfect but i think we got
quite close to a clean 3d print plus we used mostly only cheap materials
and tools so you can craft your own rifle as well
now i really hope you liked this video and
at this point thanks so much especially to rob parser who made the
initial 3d file who inspired benny to make the blueprint and which
inspired me
To make that the final prop and also
thanks a lot to scott kaufman for his amazing reference photos from the comic
con and also a huge thank you goes to my
dogs salda and mitna who were incredibly cute
during the whole project and are still pretty pretty cute and if
you want to make the whole costume you can actually watch jessica
nigri’s newest video she made a mandalorian herself like completely
the whole thing and she showed in her video how she made
everything and yeah the final result is pretty awesome
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Here is a fun little project I made: The Amban sniper rifle from the Mandalorian show! I used here only very basic materials and tools like EVA foam, PVC pipes and worked with a box cutter, x-acto knife, contact cement, super glue and hot glue! Also I guess I spent a maximum of $50 on materials. Super cheap and simple, perfect to make your own rifle at home! In total I took me around three days to build (two days if I wouldn’t play so much WoW) and Benni two days to paint!
– Svetlana
Here is new new and updated blueprint: https://www.kamuicosplay.com/product/mandalorifle/
References photos by Scott Kaufmann: https://www.thedentedhelmet.com/forums/media/the-mandalorian-72-jpg.8917/
Rob Pauza for the 3D file: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-mandalorian-rifle-100455
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0:00 – Intro
1:17 – Blueprint
2:09 – Core & Stock
4:04 – Middle Part
9:06 – Trigger
11:05 – Barrel Stuff
12:49 – Muzzle
14:26 – Scope
15:58 – Painting
21:14 – Outro
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