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Dr. Snubnose
February 25, 2009, 02:19 AM
Very Cool!....Doc:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34e0R...eature=related
jbkebert
February 25, 2009, 02:35 AM
Your link does not seem to work.
Dr. Snubnose
February 25, 2009, 03:01 AM
Sorry here is the updated link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34e0RlBIKxM&feature=related
Doc:D
HippieMagic
February 25, 2009, 04:41 AM
I don't mean to discredit him or anything but those REALLY look and sound plastic to me... or at least a very very dense cardboard... Paper doesn't click like that... I would almost believe that is a modified airsoft gun rather than a paper gun... then in one of his other videos he shoots it using a blank round and says he rifled a barrel... I don't even know how that is possible... at least not possible unless you have an insane amount of time on your hands.
tipoc
February 26, 2009, 09:03 AM
round and says he rifled a barrel... I don't even know how that is possible... at least not possible unless you have an insane amount of time on your hands.

Here at "Ms. Fischer's Home for the Challenged" we don't like to speak of "insane" amounts of time. We all just have time to learn, experience, and grow. That includes time for projects like these. I would show you my working rifle fashioned of oatmeal and honey but the ants make it impossible to store in my quarters.

tipoc
30mag
February 26, 2009, 09:06 AM
Paper mache maybe?
Ithaca37
February 26, 2009, 10:02 AM
This how he says he puts rifling in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1rv-tevpw

I don't think they look like paper though. He claims to be using elmers glue and paper.
Cannonball888
February 26, 2009, 10:37 AM
Sounds plastic to me too. Paper mache' doesn't sound like that. I think he's fooled everyone by gluing paper over plastic toy guns.
CWL
February 26, 2009, 04:06 PM
Watch some of his other videos, including the one where he disassembles the AK. You can see the pcs, including corrugated cardboard to strengthen parts.

I have no doubt that he probably uses styrene plastic sheets as well as real steel springs to operate the recoil mechanisms, he also probably uses something to strengthen the paper, but those are still hand-builts.

There exist an entire hobby community of paper-crafters out there. They compete to see who is the first to be able to create things out of paper.
HippieMagic
February 26, 2009, 05:06 PM
Elmers glue wouldn't hold like that... paper mache wouldn't either it really looks like an airsoft gun that he covered in paper... maybe it is really stiff cardboard but it is definitely more than just paper. If he documented it from beginning to end showing 100% paper parts I would believe it... till then I'm skeptical...
tipoc
February 26, 2009, 10:04 PM
In all seriousness, this is a talented guy. He has a knowledge of the mechanics of firearms and the artistic talent to bring this into being. As he says he uses metal screws and springs. Of course the guns will not fire anything other than paper bullets fired by spring action. This is art and a school project.

While in college, and a history of art major, my daughter built a "paper mache" full size and articulated nude body of her room mate. The body could stand by itself, open ands close "her" eyes and mouth and hold a pose. The technique used was with a plasticizing compound that produced a hard, durable, plastic like outer shell. Likely this, or a variation of it, is being used by this artist.

tipoc
Bezoar
February 27, 2009, 12:19 AM
i remember finding a website by a guy who would make paper replica guns. he seemed to enjoy the more antique semi automatic handguns, mauser and bergman, etc.
He made real springs and plastic dummy ammo, but they never fired anything.
Cannonball888
February 27, 2009, 12:14 PM
Beats carving a gun out of a bar of soap and dying it with black shoe polish.
raz-0
February 27, 2009, 04:13 PM
I'd believe it. Think of it as composite material. The paper is really just a substrate to get what amounts to a big blob of glue hardened in whatever shape you want.

Kind of like laying up fiberglass with epoxy resin, but with more structure to the filler and less strength from the epoxy substitute.

I used to build paper models of aircrafts as a kid using the soak it with glue method to get them to last through painting. You can even get a nice polsih going.

Heavyweight bristol paper worked nice, especially if you sanded the finish on it so it would absorb glue better.

This kid though, he's probably got a nice case of OCD or something to get that detailed.