No worries Chris. Don’t be sorry, the gun still looks great with the best part being the tip with the burnt metal looking parts. Love your work and your channel

I’d love to see you take a Jakks Pacific Batman and turn it into your cosplay of Pirate Batman.

Great vid Chris! A good method for painting carbon fiber is to get a fishnet legging and cover the prop in it and airbrush a silver onto the black surface. You have the illusion of texture and it soooo much easier than working with vinyl.

Awesome work, Chris!

God yes, needed more of these custom collectable videos.

I think it's always beneficial to show our mistakes and not just successes. It shows people that everyone makes mistakes, that everyone's human, even "experts." I think it gives people permission to try new things and to risk failures. Good on you for keeping the segment in.

Saw the scorched barrel in the thumbnail before what it actually was and I was all in. The attention you give to stressed metal under heat is just sick man.

It's very refreshing to see someone who will go over their failures in order to inform others. Honesty is always the best policy. You've always been a stand-up guy, completely devoid of ego. It's very cool. Something you don't encounter very often in general--not just in the realm of custom toys. And I'm talking about life! Thanks Chris. You're an inspiration. End result is excellent, as always!

Thank you for sharing what didn't work as well. The hardest thing, I feel, about making custom collectibles (or anything creative for that matter) is when things don't quite work out the way you envisioned it, and finding a new way. Most creatives are pretty critical of their own work as well so when something doesn't quite go right it can be even more frustrating. Just keep at it, try a different route and you will find something that works and you'll be happy with. That's what I try to do at least. :) Huge fan of your work, and it's because of you that I've been giving a go with my own attempts at custom collectibles. Several things I want to work on, including a diorama of a 2.5 ft tall AT-AT that I need to blow up. ;) I always look forward to your videos. Keep up the great work.

I wanted to build one for my cosplay prop series project! Thank you for the Video Chris!

OMG Llitteraly my mom got me two of these for Christmas and needed to find a good video and only Chris can do it. Plus got my dad the Han Solo blaster as well. Thanks Chris!

does this mean we can expect a star lord cosplay because it would be a beaut

Very inspirational and helpful. You might have fallen in love with your vinyl carbon fiber and neglected to search KZfaq for how to make faux carbon fiber with shelf liner, spray paint, and a little spray sticky glue.

Blaster looks awesome! This is why I like you so much Chris. When you face a problem you know you can't work around, you just say Fuck It and move on. True teacher right there!

Literally just bought 2 of these to do this… good to find someone I recognise to learn from! Frustrating thing is they both right handed so I’ll have to remove that little tab.

Awesome job Chris it looks great. That carbon fiber stuff looks like a beast to work with.

The Marvel GOMA Exibition was such an amazing event and a golden opportunity for prop and costume designers such as yourself. I wish I could keep going back to look at all the awesome screen-used memorabilia!

You need to do a bearded Cap cosplay!

Great Videos, and thanks for the blaster heat damage with paint brushes, not all of us are good with an airbrush.....I think the blaster came out GREAT. Most people do not realize how much work goes into these projects and while the grips did not turn out like you wanted, seeing how hard that material was to work with was helpful. We love the projects you work on.

Gday chris, I have four of those guns that I’m doing up (for a full star lord cos). 2 to practice with, 2 to cosplay. I’ll be hyrodipping carbon fibre wrap. You should give that a crack. Easy and cheap. Love ya work man👍🏼

Thank you so much for this video! Definitely made me more confident in making my first cosplay props. Tip for anyone that tries this, definitely DO NOT skip the step where he drills out the barrels with the Dremel. It makes it SO much easier to separate the two pieces. I made this mistake on the first one and it was so hard to pry them apart. The second one I drilled out the holes in the barrels with a power drill, removed the screws, and easy peasy to separate.

I used a roll of that foam mat with the square pattern that you can use to line drawers as a stencil for my carbon fiber effect on my Death Stroke helmet. You just drape it down and pin it and place and spraypaint silver over your black pattern. It came out pretty nice. Cheers!

Thank you so much for doing this, waited so long. The wait was definitely worth it.

I really liked that you kept in the Carbon Fibre stuff! Brings it back to diy. love it!

Love your work mate.. you always amaze me with you customers collectibles and your cosplay. And still amazed on how much you like the cosplay Chris pirate batman logo I made for you.

Absolutely brilliant! That is phenomenal Chris, keep up the damn good work!

I make my own costumes and props and make mistakes all the time bro it's what makes us better ,coming up with ways too solve problems, great vodeo

Good work Chris, I never tire of watching you do your custom collectibles.🤘🏼

Chris is a much more disciplined customizer than me I would've stopped after the dry brushing lol

Another great teaching video Chris, love the fact that even you with your skills has issues makes me feel easier that i'm not alone ! looking forwards to your next vid !

I liked the end result! Well done!!

This guys f ing good.jesus Christ.For the record,those random guitar riffs In the background music are hilarious.

I like being called a geek, I feel acknowledged, understood and empowered

I really love your work and I haven't read the other comments but if you use a spray bottle with just a drop of hand soap and spray it on before applying the vinyl you're able to readjust the vinyl and get the air bubbles out easily and then when you let it dry after using the heat gun it should easily wrap and hold its shape and form

Amazing job Chris love it

The music was especially good in this episode

Thanks you Chris! I found a similar video months ago but didn't look as good and as accurate. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

That shoe polish lookes amazing with that silver stuff

I was nervous just watching the carbon fibre thing lol good job as always 😁

why is this so amazing, I-

Today wad my English final exam and one part of it was listening comprehension. We got a clip of an australian and I was so happy that I was somewhat accustomed to that accent because I watch Cosplay Chris.

CHRIS! For the carbon fiber look you could mask off the top and bottom pieces and maker a carbon fiber stencil and spray a color over that to give it at LEAST the carbon fiber LOOK. Hope that helps for future projects :)

Once again you amaze me with your gentian to detail

Quick tip for getting a carbon fiber effect, lay down your base coat, get a section of a rug gripper pad and spray over it with a lighter color, one dry off set the pad a little bit and spray over it again with another shade of the color you used for the base. Won't have sharp edges on it but will still give the visual effect

Actually did the exact same thing with the vinyl wrap with the Rubies replica a few months back. Not sure which vinyl you had exactly but if you get the Vivvid glossy carbon fiber it looks even better and it’s a lot easier to put the handle, best way is not to do any cut-outs beforehand and place a full piece of the wrap and make the cut-outs after you’ve heated it up to the handle if that makes any sense. Either way great paint on it! End result was amazing! Keep up the awesome vids

Love your work, I did this blaster a few years ago for my nephew and used gold and silver leaf for some of the metallic parts.

Bro...you have some sick mad skills! I just ordered the same gun. This video is what I need!!!! Thanks!!

I happen to be very familiar with Star-Lord's blasters for reasons I can't talk about publicly but you definitely nailed the colors, weathering, and blast marks. If I had to "guess" how a good replica would be made I'd say it'd have to be hydro dipped.

Chris, I've seen people emulate carbon fiber with foam cabinet liner. The little holes create a similar look. Base coat black with silver over top. Try it out! Looks awesome though!

No apologies needed, man. Really great work!

You could had put a mesh on top and sprayed a patter on the grip to fake carbon.

If you wrap the handle in masking tape the remove it with a scalpel, You'll get a pattern that you can then cut out and transfer to the wrap and that means you're able to use minimal heat forming. Also if you do the wrap while its in the two halves it would be a lot easier. if you line up the pattern on a wrap, overlapping edges are practically invisible, so if you want that seamless look, you can just add a strip on the visible edges. another approach would be to not cut out the sheet at all, just lay it then form it with heat, holes are easy to add after. this is the method used to wrap cars. If you watch the "Wrap Attack" playlist on the Yiannimize channel, it shows how professional vinyl wrappers approach unusual objects such as guitars, tv's, toilets, ps4 controllers and other unusual shapes.

Looks amazing mate have a good week

Damn good work,love your customs.....

So two solutions for the hand wrap (For future project's) one being when working with vinyl wraps. Cutting it to shape they way you did makes working with it quite hard. If the had excess around all the edges it makes shaping it much much easier. Solution two is dipping the handle. Which is basically a printed sheet of 'paint' in a bucket of water that you put the object in and it transfers the image onto the item Good work as always tho

That looks pretty awesome nice job man

Great video, I designed these pistols for Quill GOTG, the carbon fibre was the trickiest part for the prop makers too but they ended up using a water tank and floating on a transfer then sealing it.

+Cosplay Chris I just ordered 2 of these, can't wait to pimp them out!!!

dude awesome video cant wait to see what other custom collectables you got coming up :)

the hairs looking awesome!!

Good job love your videos. Copied so many of them myself. I did this and then paid about $20 to hydrodip it like you said.

You should do a full star lord cosplay one day. Maybe when Vol 3 comes out

an idea and/or suggestion, to still achieve the carbon fiber look, I've used those cabinet rubber mats that have a sort of carbon fiber checkered pattern to create that look. just some light dusting with a silver spray paint.

Yours turned out awesome!!! And OMG I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THAT VINYL WRAP. I ended up just leaving it and weathering it just like you did.

Hey Chris, great video! If you ever give this another crack I suggest using a primer pen for the vinyl wrap especially in those tricky corners. It’ll help give that extra stick that you’re looking for. Thanks for another wicked awesome video mate!

About damn time you do a video like this man!!

I need to make this so much. I had to use a water pistol from Kmart painted for my Starlord costume, it turned out really good tho. Make a post for this video on Facebook for people to share their own painted props.

After watching Bill's vid last year and spotting yours, I knew the vinyl wrap was going to be a pain Chris! :( Great outcome though, looks fantastic! PS. Started on a pair of Rubies blasters myself so fingers crossed!

this is an amazing video, you my friend have got a new subscriber :)

I LOVE IT! STAR LORD IS SO COOL

Omg that looks so good

I feel like your shirt is what every young boy wants.

Car brake fluid is pretty good for removing dirt, grime and residues from plastic parts without damaging paint. Little bit on some q tips should get rid of anything you don't want on the surface.

If you'll put down a base of gray, take some mesh (like from a screen door) and spray over it with black you'll get a very similar effect. From a distance you can't even tell the difference.

It's a bummer you had such a hard time with the carbon fiber wrap. It's good to try new things, but it always comes with a risk. Instead of carbon fiber you could just fake it? Air brush on a lite checkered pattern with some silver, using a stencil? Like this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eqqeoJab1LrZZqM.htmlm49s

I know you mentioned it but you and bill really should’ve tried hydro-dipping. You can buy DIY kits and they’re actually fairly easy (did it for a bunch of car parts on my first vehicle and they turned out great), forget the price but I don’t believe it was too expensive, and it’s a valuable technique I’m sure y’all prop makers could take advantage of.

I love your videos. They inspire me soooooo much

Sweet only thing I would do differently is plug the holes once I had is back together and paint those to match, and have gotten the seam to disappear with a bit of sanding and filler, sick prop man

You could have hydrodipped the carbon fiber part. It has become quite a popular technique in the Nerf community.

I can tell purely from the thumbnail that this man is an absolute miracle worker

one technique I have used for carbon fiber is get some of that foam rubber drawer liner , its like a square checker pattern with half the squares open , paint the base plastic in black then cut the liner to the same shape of the handle and then lay it on the plastic, use a silver spray paint from a distance, it will make the open squares silver and leave the others black and it mimics carbon fiber. Then for smaller areas you can even cut a small shape of it and line it up with the already painted areas and match the pattern, as its flexible you can wrap it around the grip and airbrush and with some practice looks just like the carbon fiber

Chris, for the carbon look: Have you thought about taking a tea strainer, ripping the mesh out, taping everything on the blaster you don´t want the structure to, put the mesh of the strainer over the handle and gently spraying it with some gunmetal over the flat black, before sealing it? That´s what instantly came to my mind when seeing the actual carbon...

Chris you make awsome vids..! Very inspired for me.. hope you find some time and make a roomtour !? Keep up good work and Always remember... cosplay chris do it at its his best !

love this!

Just a thinking out loud idea: What about dry brush faking the carbon fiber texture? In camera, the main thing that stands out about the carbon fiber is a sort of X crosshatch of silverish over a darker background. Perhaps you could emulate this with a terrible crap brush, like a couple cm wide but with only like 14 bristles remaining, and making crossing strokes at 45-degree angles. I'd experiment with this on a test surface first to see if it's even a reasonable idea. If it can be made to work a bit on a flat test piece, maybe step it up to trying on a curved something, maybe even a cheap squirt gun or the like. If it's worth doing, you could add it to your Starlord gun and hit it with another layer of clear coat. If not, we experimented, we failed, and we did it right. : )

Dood i love you for doing things manually aaargh, i have a pair of Star Lord blaster from nerf and I cannot get that scorch marks, most tutorials I found use airbrush. Thank you and love you aaaaaa

Awesome Tutorial!!!

Awesome video Chris love your videos get good tips

Vinyl wrap is an art... and whenever I have projects that need to be wrapped I just hire a pro to do it.

If your going to use epoxy with carbon fiber, get carbon fiber top mat and attach it to the piece with the epoxy in a vacuum bag. Pre-preg carbon fiber using a vacuum bag would work well too.

hey Chris the carbon fiber look you wanting can be done by resting some none slip matting over the matt finish of the grip then mist some metallic gloss black over then lift the none slip matting off before it drys

Soapy water in a spray bottle works best for placing wraps , spray on the surface and wrap will slide around and move easy ( leave to dry in warm place for 24hours plus ) and always over size your cuts buy a few millimeters,

Damn dude, looking like a handsome version of LA Beast.

I really think you should consider filling in the screw holes when you do these. a little putty isn't that expensive, and it makes a TON of difference.

very cool man looks awesome it sucks that the wrap didnt work but when cosplaying your gonna be holding the handle so awesome work man

Thanks so much mate!! Cheers bro.

You're brave enough to fail. The Nerf modder Drac does the vinyl film dips you talk about at 16:00. My thought process says you might want to use Bill's film at 1/8ths of the faux scales so step 2 firmly pastes step 1 down. I'd go front to back. Or do a faux katana lace? Thanks for all your videos; you're a real treasure.

missed you man, hope your doing well. love the custom !

My thoughts on the carbon fibre wrap would involve cutting the handle out then vacuforming it with the vinyl. You can do it with a plastic bag and a hoover.

Don't worry about the Carbon Fiber Chris, it's great as it is already :).