I'm scratchbuilding my own Smart Gun replica.
For mainly budgetary reasons, I am taking some artistic license though - the gun in the movie is an M56, and I'm building an
M86 - hey, it's been seventeen years, so you could extrapolate the design changes
I'm building the reciever from wood, using the Mg34 pattern at
empireprops.freeservers.c...break.htmlThe front and rear triggers will be modified spray bottle nozzles. I was going to use bike parts, but when I got to looking at the spray bottle triggers, I decided they would be cheaper, easier to work with, and when done, they wouldn't look like bike parts
The front suspension unit will be scratchbuild from PVC. Most of the barrel parts will also be PVC. The drum magazine is a modified CD package (you know, the plastic drum that holds CD's when you buy them in bulk).
Most of the parts and greeblie I found at a local surplus store (Axeman). If you live in the Twin Cities and you like to build props you owe it to yourself to check this place out.
My main problem has been working the barrel shroud. I think what I am going to have to do is drill the holes myself, something I was hoping would be avoided.
I did find this the other day, this will be very useful in building the chest harness and stabilizer arm:
homebuiltstabilizers.com/fullrigs.html