My friend, Paula, brought up an interesting point when I was talking to her about steampunking the plastic dart gun that I have. She wanted to know what I was going to do to make the gun feel more realistic. It was a good question which I had not really considered. After all, even with some paint and a few extra items glued on here and there there would still be a fake sort of lightness to it when you wielded it. Thus my next find was going inside the gun to make it feel a little heavier. I went to the Harbor Freight and bought a pack of wheel weights.
These weights have their own self adhesive backing that I tried to use to adhere them to the inside of the gun halves but eventually I ended up having to use the 5 minute epoxy to secure them. Enough of the 1/4 oz bits of metal and you start to get a real heft to the gun. I also had to be careful not to block any internal moving parts that I still wanted to work like the trigger. The next pic shows the first set of weights that I put in the gun but I did add some more later.
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