Eggbeater Guns

While looking at Antiques I came across an Egg Beater Drill from Miller Falls.  The drill was probably made in the early 20's or 30's.  It was in great shape and only $14, so I thought what the heck.  It is really cool to piece of history.  It really amazes me how much quality was put into this tool.

When looking for these look for eggbeater drills look for Nos. 2, 2A and 5 made by Millers Falls. All the drills were made to a really high degree of precision.

Here is a cool article on the hand drills.
Here is a great resource for hand drills called Old Tool Heaven. 

Steampunk, Lightning Gun

WorldWorks Games has come out with a pretty cool steam punk paper gun known as the Lightning Gun. I haven't done many paper terrain models, but this looked very interesting.

The paper terrain gun retails for $10.  This could be something cool for Halloween.

WorldWorks Games has partnered with New York Times best selling authors Tracy & Laura Hickman (DragonLance, Death Gate and Ravenloft adventure settings), to bring you an exciting new line of gaming products. The Lightning Gun takes inspiration from the upcoming The Lakota Dragons War game setting and book series. This unique re-imagining of the struggle for the American West, pits the technologically superior Airships and Ornithopers of the U.S. Air Cavalry against the dragon-riding native Lakota Warriors.




Download our FREE backstory and instruction manual for the Lightning Gun & The Lakota Dragon Wars for a preview right now:

The Lightning Gun includes all of the following:

* Lightning Gun back story
* Fully illustrated instructions
* Graphic templates
* Certificate of ownership
* Wall mount with optional feet
* Complete GSD compatibility (for automated craft cutters).

Steampunk, Nerf Gun

So I picked up a few Nerf Guns that are going to be converted into some really cool steampunk guns.
The big pistol is called the "Nerf Maverick" and the smaller one is called the "Nerf N-Strike Nite Finder EX-3".  These of course will accompany me on my Halloween adventures.  You can pick the guns up at a lot of toy stores, Ebay, Amazon and many other places.

Here is what I plan on doing.

• Sand off the "NERF" insignia.
• Cut some gouges into it to give it that "battle damage" look
  Take the gun apart for priming and painting.
• Spray Paint it brown
• Drybrush with gold paint.
• Use some other color (metallic aqua, silver or something) for the accent parts
• Seal the parts
• Add clock gears and bits to steampunk it out.

Here are some examples of painted steampunk Nerf guns.