"Hi, I'm Ian McCollum and I'm here in BlasTechs Grey Room where they've kindly let me take a look at some of the Galactic Civil War era weapons in their archive..."
If Ian ever teamed up with some cosplayers to do an in-universe Star Wars episode (where for history he said a combination of canon and made up facts) that would be amazing.
Here you go and welcome to the club ua-cam.com/video/sI3x30iamHc/v-deo.html "I am the way, and the light. Except the light is occasionally muzzle flash"
That, and BlasTech was infamous for selling arms to basically anyone, so it's not inconceivable the rebel blasters are new-production guns that they just bought for themselves.
@@rubenskiii Yes, we know. _Star Wars_ was originally intended to be a one-off story, so any suggestion of a wider universe is mostly retroactive--but that suggestion of a wider universe is what makes _Star Wars_ what it is. Continuity errors and filmmaking thrift gave later writers the chance to produce something fascinating.
When you really think about it, those Rebel troopers weren't really Rebel troopers per se, they were part of Leia's security detail. So they were either Senatorial or Alderanian troops secretly working for the Rebel Alliance. If they were Rebels in uniform, that kind of makes the Captain's protests to Vader about being on a diplomatic mission a really hard sell. How can you say that you're on a diplomatic mission, basically saying that you made a mistake, when you and your crew are dressed as Rebels?
@@Riceball01 That particular uniform is only seen (AFAIK) in the Tantive IV scenes, so you may be right, but I've only ever heard them described as rebel troopers.
Scene cut from him sitting there while someone walks in the door and he's working on a Kentucky rifle... Pan right to boba Fett drinking some blue booze
@@ScottKenny1978 Or, do it to one with no collectiblity. Little or no finish remaining, no matching numbers (Frankenstein gun), shot out or relined barrel, etc.
I like how the difference between "antique" and "futuristic" boils down not to the mechanics or functionality of the gun, but rather the gubbins and doohickies you bolt onto it.
The technical term is "greebles" and Ian uses the term correctly in the video. The term was (probably) coined by Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic company during the production of _Star Wars_ in 1976. ILM's model makers bought thousands and thousands of plastic model kits which they took apart and glued to their spaceship models to give them the illusion of much larger size. This then became the industry standard for how to make such models, and the term "greebles" stuck. The model makers for _2001: a Space Odyssey_ used similar methods, but it's unknown if they used the same term.
It's a pretty good example of Star Wars design, I think. Star Wars guns are real guns with bits stuck on or cut off - but they still look like guns, characters handle them like guns, and they kinda work like guns: They fire discrete, separate shots (not continuous laser beams), they make a noise each time, they have at least some recoil, usually appear to have magazines,... Like most of the props, vehicles, etc, they're different and otherworldly to some extent, but also familiar enough to give them a certain veracity, and make the universe feel like a real, lived-in place.
@@catfish552 Yeah, that was the key to Star Wars and Alien. Everything was a plausible extension of real life. Meanwhile, Star Trek makes their new phasers more like electric shavers...
You should check out the internet movie firearms database if you haven’t already. They have a few exclusive photos on their site from different armorers and prop companies. My favorite are the guns from Aliens.
One of my neighbors had two C96s and he had one that was converted to a blaster, and another that had the forbidden markings on it. He did this to make people lose their minds on the ranges in town. Even went to the range once dressed like solo lol
That's what I hated about the sequel trilogy's weaponry. The Original trilogy's was based on real firearms and the prequels weaponry acted as precursor's to the Original trilogy's. The Sequels weaponry was just their without any real explanation
@@connorthegunlovingeek7465 the sequels were more based on the original ones, which makes sense as the original triliogy weapons lore wise are improvements of their clone wars variants
@@helix5441 just looked back at all the First Order and Resistance weapons and just realized I'm stupid. The only reason I find them harder to identify is because they have more plastic bits and doohickeys attached to them, but are somewhat recognizable if you take a longer look at them.
The cantina scene was extensively reshot in Los Angeles after the first cut was reviewed. The arm-cut-off scene was originally a decapitation. This is probably where the new gun comes in.
Phew, man. Lucas gets a lot of cred for Star Wars. The decapitation detail wasn't mentioned in 'Star Wars: Saved in the Edit'. But an arm cut off vs decap is a huge improvement.
Ian: "It's not something I want to do too much of, after all this is movie props and not real history" Also Ian: "I am Ian McCollum and we are back today, taking a look at another *Elbonian* firearm"
_Hilarious!_ However, for the _real_ nerd, I bring to the attention of all, it was original intention of writer-producer-director George Lucas to eventually reveal Jar-Jar Binks as a Sith Lord -- _truth!_ Yes, this fan theory was confirmed by GL himself. The conceit was abandoned after the unpopularity of JJB in SW1, _The Phantom Menace,_ had debuted. As a Sith Lord, JJB would have somehow made the ZiP into a functional weapon. Somehow.
I had thought Sand People were basically based on Bedouins, but maybe there is an Afghani reference there given the gun. They more or less hit the beats: they're a nomadic warrior culture who are well adapted to their environment, outsiders tend to be prejudiced against them because of misunderstandings, and basically they try to protect themselves while others act violently toward them because they expect violence. The Mandalorian did a good job digging into this. Mando gets along with the Sand People even though they are usually hostile to outsiders because he is respectful of their culture. So his encounters with them are very different. Then you have Anakin basically expressing the take everyone else has by committing genocide. Humans are actually offworlders on Tattooine, and the situation is much like early relationships between native americans and european colonists. The attitude in Mos Pelgo is obviously deliberately modeled on Westerns, much as Star Wars was originally based on spaghetti westerns and samurai movies. Much like back then, the townsfolk are basically trespassing in sand people land and don't see their own hostile actions toward the sand people. They only see the response, which they consider unreasoning and indefensible.
Distressed "Please don't do this!" toward the end was great. I really like this kind of stuff, and look forward to more. I do understand the concern about the core focus of Forgotten Weapons, but it wouldn't hurt your credibility in my eyes anyway. Part of firearms history involves how they are used and become well known, after all.
Some are M19. Both types were put the wrong way around. In ESB there are no M38s, and M19s also show up on Han Solo's and Luke's DL-44 blasters. in ROTJ the E-11 blaster scopes were all casts or lookalikes of the M19.
This tradition continued into the prequels! Some of the palace gaurds in Episode 1 are carrying "CR-2"s, a blaster visibly built from a Calico with the distinctive magazine still attatched. If any of you own Battlefront or it's sequel, they're a fun place to take a look at some of these props in high res as DICE had access to many of the originals while building their game.
The whole Star Wars universe is clearly a conspiracy by the military-industrial complex, I mean for fuck's sake those idiots actually built 2 Death Stars! Thousands of Star Destroyers, millions of clones who can't even shoot straight... The real winner of all this violence and bloodshed is the contractors for the Empire, hell they probably backed the rebels in secret just to sell more weapons. Palpatine isn't an evil genius, he's a fool who got conned by the defense lobbyists.
"In this scene, John Wayne uses a 73 Colt" "In this scene, Clint Eastwood uses a 73 Colt" In this scene, Gene Wilder uses a 73 Colt" In this scene, Jack Palance uses a 73 Colt" And so on
The MG15 was usually mounted in aircraft like the Heinkel He111. A fairly simple but light and elegant design, one of my favorite forgotten weapons. Thanks for including it!
There’s a shit ton of weapons in the Star Wars universe. Most of the editors on Wookipedia care more about tanks and planets. I catalogued every weapon from the six major armies. But let me tell ya straight up, the fact that they are two parallel universe makes it rather messy.
Yes, please, please, please do more videos of this nature! You are the most qualified and entertaining person to speak about film used firearms. I love your videos and movie weapon history/trivia is just as exciting to me as any firearm history. Keep up the good work.
"Good news trooper 2341, you get this MG-34!" "Hooray!" "Bad news trooper 8645, you get this Mk II Sten gun with a single-feed laser magazine..." "Awww..."
Palpatine went to the lowest bidders to save money on that planet-destroying vanity project/jobs program of his. For reference, I've heard that some of the poor fellas in the Stormtrooper Corps had plastoid armor that broke from blows with armoury tools, or gaffi sticks from sand people.
@@robertfoley8414 Ima yell it out for the people in the back. Storm Troopers are NOT bad at shooting, they were hearding the heroes to the Millennium Falcon so that they could be followed. Its literally explained the second the heroes leave in the ship.
@@RyuuHatake That doesn't explain why they keep mostly missing the heroes in the rest of the trilogy. Also, no matter how well trained and indoctrinated a unit is, they wouldn't intentionally keep missing guys that have just gunned down bunch of their comrades... Much better explanation is Luke and Leia doing some kind of subconscious Force accuracy debuff on the Stormtroopers
I mean especially today given the progress made in 3D printing. for Cosplay or a display in your home theater room 3D printed will look fine really. Just have to do a good job painting using metallic paints. Or as he said, use airsoft as a donor.
@@NSixtyFour, Ian has a lot of video of the original guns already in the bag, so it should be a matter of pulling some old video and adding some new audio recording, along with some stills from the series. That’s easier than making new, original content from scratch.
I'd love to see this again! I love how Lucas and his helpers made these from strange and unusual guns/forgotten guns to make them into Sci-fit weapons.
Yup. 6 hours of non stop gun fights 100 to 1 odds....never a single hit. And horribly safety practices, no wonder actors hate guns so much. No clue about them.
Blaster shoots gas relatively slow to bullets, I don't remember the numbers but they're as fast as a baseball ball so that means that is easy to dodge, the force of the empire and it's troops comes in numbers
DO IT MORE PLEASE Ian for some people this is history and you bridging the gap I feel is useful. In many ways this is a cross of art tech and guns I just cant get enough.
Can't remember where I heard it but I recall that they wanted star wars to have a "used" feel to it instead of the slick shiny things most sci fi's did.
Lucky enough to have visited Bapty on many occasions, I work in film and TV so very much a go to place if I can't source from my own armoury. My fave comment from the owner (def a collector!) was 'Griff, if you ever need a deck mounted nordenfeldt, look what I've just bought from the Congo. used the be on the kaisers yacht'. To this day... nope, not been asked. still waiting! Brilliant place.
This was cool, and honestly I would be absolutely thrilled with a “history” video of an E-11 in the style of GarandThumb’s MA5 review he did for April Fools
There was such information, then it got tossed in 1999 or 2000 with the first semi-purge of official-but-not-canon, following the bankruptcy of West End Games and the RPG license going into limbo. But even then, all that was ever official was a couple paragraphs, and Hidalgo has done his best to destroy it. Like five or six lines in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, some of which contradicts what is generally accepted about about blasters, a few more in Han Solo Corporate sector novels which has the same problem. Bits in pieces in roleplaying game supplements which got duplicated by Zahn, Anderson and Stackpole who all used West Ends material for reference. Other novels had random crap. And wookiepedia includes too much trash from video games that was created without referencing canon (either mouse cannon or legends canon) other than for a few model numbers and a poor understanding of the Galaxy and THEN Hidalgo crammed it in sideways with a hammer after he stopped giving a damn. And before people ask, yes, Im a nerd. Most of my hobbies relate to bushcraft, shooting or science fiction. Piss off. :P
Yes please. Just watched your mandalorian video and was utterly stoked to see you'd done another Starwars video. Don't let the next one be a year like this time please.
At the end you say "this is movie props and not real history" Star Wars A new hope is like 43 years ago. sounds like history to me. Oh and I was 10 years only in 1977. and it part of my history.
Guys, cinema history doesn't count I'm world history. Not until actual weapons are designed and fielded on a real battlefield that were designed on movie concepts, as opposed to the other way around. That'll probably happen in my life time though. Jet packs and rail guns are JUST around the corner.
Thank you- I knew about the MG-42 and the Storm Trooper Sterling because a gun collector friend of mine told me years ago. So much fun to hear about it all.
It's wild playing Star Wars Battlefront and just going, "Wait a minute, this is just a Lewis Gun. I'm hip firing a Lewis Gun." I would love to see more of these actually.
Thanks to "Walking Fire" tactics, hip-firing a Lewis was an actual military idea back in the Great War...According to C&Arsenal's research, the Canadians in particular were notable for actually making the whole crazy debacle actually feasible. ...I mean, walking fire across No-Man's land was still insanity, but it was slightly less so when you're providing it from a brawny French-Canadian Lumberjack with a special sling set up, to provide bursts of fire from what is effectively a SAW, so you can go H/LMG hunting in a German trench...
@@SeaPhantom it wasn’t too well known, I didn’t know it? And that Jawa gun was WW1. Or Laya’s Russian target pistol? I’d say the props people did an excellent job with what they had to work with. Except, I never got the point behind Chewbacca’s crossbow laser?
for anyone who DOES want to make a dl-44 without desecrating a broomhandle, you can do it with the AR-platform, i think someone even makes a kit for it.
George Lucas borrows a huge amount of technical imagery from WW II. That's why the movie felt so easily relatable. It also felt more real than one with flashy sci-fi weapons. His target audience had grown up watching WW II movies.
@Fondil Mahbols A guy firing 9mm tracer rounds just got algorithm'd the other day, was uploaded I think 6 years ago and went from 15-20k views to 120k views in less than 20 hours.
Loved it! Please do more of these. I can't believe I didn't recognize the MG34 and the Lewis gun in Star Wars before! Recognized the broom-handled Mauser years ago, though.
The cut down SMLE that the Jawas used was actually a British WW2 era AFV smoke dispenser. Some of them even had their handles completely cut off and solenoids attached to their triggers so they could be fired from inside the vehicle.
Please continue with the movie gun angle as an addition to your usual top shelf content...thanks for your efforts,you continue to be my favorite YT channel
I love how they use blanks and actually fire in the OT, vs the prequels and sequels using nonfunctional props only. Padme jerking her hand like a child playing pretend is so strange lol
@@pieterandjuanchronicles9849 Calling it the best is a bit of a stretch imo, it's in solid third place for me. 1) Empire Strikes Back, 2) A New Hope, and 3) ROTS.
It's one of those things that failed the risk/reward test, over time. Blanks are safer, but never entirely safe, and adds considerably to the cost of the prop when the weapons are modded as they were in Star Wars. And while you get proper muzzle flash, that's not a complex effect anymore, nor is it hard to time lights to simulate the flash on set. Everything else is down to the actor. When you don't need to put actors and crew at risk, you shouldn't. And that's wittled away at the utility of blank-firing weapons and similar kinda of practical effects.
Something for the film buffs: Han Solo's blaster is a conversion from a film prop already previously altered for a previous film. In the 1960s, Oliver Reed plays a professional assassin who uses a multi-part gun assembled from a case of parts: the C96 selbstladung pistole, converted to have a stock, a long suppressor, and a scope to fit on top. The central part of that prop became Han Solo's pistol, with the muzzle brake from an aircraft machine gun, and with added radio-control plane parts ( the cylinders and pushrods from a plastic scale radial aircraft engine made as parts for radio control aircraft modellers, specifically.
@@michaelwinsper6275 look at the size of the cup. the smoke launcher one is a lot bigger compared to the one on the jawa blaster. it would be as big as the entire receiver.
@@brodynightingale6031 He's saying the very same C96 that was made into Han's DL-44 prop was previously used by Frank Sinatra's character in the 1967 movie The Naked Runner...
A friend photographer of mine, Alexander Sliussarev, used to say: "There's a small transformer building near my house, every day I go by it I se how the light strikes the brick work and I make a photograph, a year later a small birch tree starts growing out of the wall and I take picture, and so on and so forth, hundreds of plain, boring images.... years later the thing is torn down, and now all these images are history". Movie props are not real history while the movie is being shot, they are "tools", once the movie is out technically they are real history, add a legend or two, a couple of fanatics and place in culture and there is no perceptible difference between "real" history and "history".... Yes most of the prop-guns did not serve the original purpose, some of them are not even guns, but they _are_ history =)
This was a nice change of the usual pace. I would like to see more of such videos and maybe include in the text screen section of the name not just the fictitious title but also the one from the original it is based on. Thank you Ian and a happy new year.
I'd love to see an Indiana Jones series version of this, covering all the anachronisms. Such as MP38 and MP40 submachine guns and RPGs in 1936 Egypt. Might be fun!
@@crazysilly2914 Firefly has very little in common with Star Wars other than space and guns. Firefly has the capacity for a much darker tone since it isn't aimed at kids at all. I really don't see how a low budget means anything, since the newer Star Wars movies had a HUGE budget and still managed to be absolute dogshit.
Okay, looking at some of the stills from the movie, I'm realizing just how TERRIBLE the Trigger Discipline is on the set. Almost every Storm Trooper, and even Hamil himself had fingers on the trigger/in the trigger guard... That worries me.
@@Oddytwin its a joke. People say "it was the -0's" whenever they are trying to dismiss something done in poor judgement or taste that wouldn't fly nowadays that they did in the past
The Jawa blaster could also be based on the british smoke dischargers that where mounted on early ww2 tanks. these where cutdown enfields with a cup added to the barell
Or, not as directly, the WWII Commando SMLE .45s...the barrel was massively cut down and replaced with a large silencer, while the action was replaced to work as a sub-sonic .45-calibre carbine.
@@dd11111 LISTEN HERE BROTHER! ALL YOU NEED IS TO HAVE FAITH IN THE MACHINE SPIRIT OF YOUR WEAPON AND IT WILL FIRE EVEN WHEN CLOGGED WITH THE ENTRAILS OF XENOS SCUM. Also yes, I think Gun Jesus doing a small side series on fictional weapons would be awesome.
"Hi, I'm Ian McCollum and I'm here in BlasTechs Grey Room where they've kindly let me take a look at some of the Galactic Civil War era weapons in their archive..."
You won the internet for me today
His Star Wars name is Ian MacLunkey.
this made me lol for real
If Ian ever teamed up with some cosplayers to do an in-universe Star Wars episode (where for history he said a combination of canon and made up facts) that would be amazing.
"Now this is really slick!"
Gun Jesus finally got to the guns that are *so forgotten* they're from "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
Gun Jesus 😂
Ian’s new affectionate nickname
@@cashotpb Not exactly new, I can remember that nickname some years back :)
Yeah, it's fairly old, looking at "Gun Jesus" videos by fans. Also worth mentioning is the Halloween shotgun match from 5 years ago.
@@pekkakoski6595 yeah hk literally post ian with jesus style in their official ig account
Here you go and welcome to the club ua-cam.com/video/sI3x30iamHc/v-deo.html
"I am the way, and the light. Except the light is occasionally muzzle flash"
The Rebel blasters were technically stolen Imperial weapons, so Death Star troopers being armed with them isn't that much of a continuity error.
That, and BlasTech was infamous for selling arms to basically anyone, so it's not inconceivable the rebel blasters are new-production guns that they just bought for themselves.
U guys know that this was most likely a convenient production choice of the prop departement? Not some well thought out masterplan.
@@rubenskiii Yes, we know. _Star Wars_ was originally intended to be a one-off story, so any suggestion of a wider universe is mostly retroactive--but that suggestion of a wider universe is what makes _Star Wars_ what it is. Continuity errors and filmmaking thrift gave later writers the chance to produce something fascinating.
When you really think about it, those Rebel troopers weren't really Rebel troopers per se, they were part of Leia's security detail. So they were either Senatorial or Alderanian troops secretly working for the Rebel Alliance. If they were Rebels in uniform, that kind of makes the Captain's protests to Vader about being on a diplomatic mission a really hard sell. How can you say that you're on a diplomatic mission, basically saying that you made a mistake, when you and your crew are dressed as Rebels?
@@Riceball01 That particular uniform is only seen (AFAIK) in the Tantive IV scenes, so you may be right, but I've only ever heard them described as rebel troopers.
I could imagine Ian owning a self defense shop on Tatooine and not being affected by jedi mind tricks
MInd tricks don't work on me, only berthiers...
Get an old french rifle and he'll follow your will
I hate sand...
"9mm will do fine."
"No, it won't."
"9mm will do fine."
"No, it won't! Mind tricks don't work on me, only 32 french longue."
Scene cut from him sitting there while someone walks in the door and he's working on a Kentucky rifle... Pan right to boba Fett drinking some blue booze
Explains why the Stormtroopers can't hit anything, they never unfold the stock.
lol
It’s plot ammor
Probably because the armor isn't all that conducive to stocks.
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works with the mp5 in cs:go tho
@@mid1429 It's only one M but yes, you are right.
“Please don’t do this to a c96 please no I beg you please”
Nah, do it to one that's already been bubba'd.
@@toddmaddox3632 license built Astras actually (they have a magazine rather than requiring a stripper clip be used).
@@ScottKenny1978 Or, do it to one with no collectiblity. Little or no finish remaining, no matching numbers (Frankenstein gun), shot out or relined barrel, etc.
@@johnmullholand2044 yes, that'd also be acceptable to me and most collectors.
"Bapti & Co." would be a good name for a Star Wars universe company.
"Bapty"
Pepsi Co
Pure shit talk
@@austinmoore7328 calm down there, thumbass
@John cookie monster
I like how the difference between "antique" and "futuristic" boils down not to the mechanics or functionality of the gun, but rather the gubbins and doohickies you bolt onto it.
The technical term is "greebles" and Ian uses the term correctly in the video. The term was (probably) coined by Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic company during the production of _Star Wars_ in 1976. ILM's model makers bought thousands and thousands of plastic model kits which they took apart and glued to their spaceship models to give them the illusion of much larger size. This then became the industry standard for how to make such models, and the term "greebles" stuck. The model makers for _2001: a Space Odyssey_ used similar methods, but it's unknown if they used the same term.
It's a pretty good example of Star Wars design, I think. Star Wars guns are real guns with bits stuck on or cut off - but they still look like guns, characters handle them like guns, and they kinda work like guns: They fire discrete, separate shots (not continuous laser beams), they make a noise each time, they have at least some recoil, usually appear to have magazines,...
Like most of the props, vehicles, etc, they're different and otherworldly to some extent, but also familiar enough to give them a certain veracity, and make the universe feel like a real, lived-in place.
@@catfish552 Yeah, that was the key to Star Wars and Alien. Everything was a plausible extension of real life. Meanwhile, Star Trek makes their new phasers more like electric shavers...
@@tarmaque There's also "the greeble" part, which is some piece from a tank set I can't recall.
You should check out the internet movie firearms database if you haven’t already. They have a few exclusive photos on their site from different armorers and prop companies. My favorite are the guns from Aliens.
When I take my C96 to the range I get one of two comments. "Wow, that's a Mauser Broomhandle' or "That's a Star Wars gun!"
Lies again? Gun Oil UEFA SW
One of my neighbors had two C96s and he had one that was converted to a blaster, and another that had the forbidden markings on it. He did this to make people lose their minds on the ranges in town. Even went to the range once dressed like solo lol
"it looks pretty cool, it certainly fits the part" is probably one of the best qualities of star wars props on the original trilogy
That's what I hated about the sequel trilogy's weaponry. The Original trilogy's was based on real firearms and the prequels weaponry acted as precursor's to the Original trilogy's. The Sequels weaponry was just their without any real explanation
@@connorthegunlovingeek7465 the sequels were more based on the original ones, which makes sense as the original triliogy weapons lore wise are improvements of their clone wars variants
@@helix5441 This is completely off topic, but it's good to see a fellow fallout fan around these parts. I used to have that exact profile picture
@@helix5441 just looked back at all the First Order and Resistance weapons and just realized I'm stupid. The only reason I find them harder to identify is because they have more plastic bits and doohickeys attached to them, but are somewhat recognizable if you take a longer look at them.
@@connorthegunlovingeek7465 yeah more so for the first order weapons like the f-11 which is quite obviously a improved e-11
Back in 1978 my father saw some of the first Star Wars movie and said, 'Wait a minute, Han Solo has a Mauser C96'
I saw the original star wars movie, I was 11 and had no idea WTF a C96 was.
it’s a modified DL-44 if we’re talking about what the blaster is called in the Star Wars universe
@@rooracleaf561 Clearly that isnt the case with ops comment.
And we all went out a got one !
@@rooracleaf561 Thank you, Captain, for pointing out the brutally obvious.
Worth pointing out both the "E11" and Darth Vader's lightsaber had rubber car wiper blades glued to them as the "grips".
it was a pretty low-budget movie, after all...
@@crazysilly2914 Hey I'm not saying it was a bad idea. It was a BRILLIANT idea!
@@KaldekBoch yep!
but then it got ruined by the House of Mouse....
the main silver part in lukes light saber in ep 4 was made form an old camera
They aren't wiper blades. The are t track drawer slides
Now I need a scene of Ian trying to sell the Mando a new blaster in The Mandalorian Season 3.
Upcoming cameo at Camp Starwars! --- though, on second thought... we wouldn't want Ian to get a bad case of Disneyflu-21.
I hate that you've said this because now I really want to see that.
I would actually be very entertained by Ian sort of picking a couple of classic guns that would make cool movie blasters
FRENCH IN SPAAAAAAAAACCE!
In the same manner as the Sommelier in John Wick 2
The cantina scene was extensively reshot in Los Angeles after the first cut was reviewed. The arm-cut-off scene was originally a decapitation. This is probably where the new gun comes in.
Phew, man. Lucas gets a lot of cred for Star Wars. The decapitation detail wasn't mentioned in 'Star Wars: Saved in the Edit'. But an arm cut off vs decap is a huge improvement.
The start of a tradition. A severed body part in every movie until TFA
Ian: "It's not something I want to do too much of, after all this is movie props and not real history"
Also Ian: "I am Ian McCollum and we are back today, taking a look at another *Elbonian* firearm"
Elbonia is real history tho, he just doesn't want to deal with angry comments if he puts the actual country name
I thought it was a Fredonian firearm.
"This is a cut down ...."
Atf: so anyways, i started blasting
Atf: : "And then the guy started dodging my shots..."
@@johnathansaegal3156 of course, i'm not uncivilized
Almost choked on my sprite. Good one
@@johnathansaegal3156 And then the wookie shot back
"There were so many dogs in the way, sir"
If Jar-Jar Binks ever had a gun it would look like a Zip 22
Or a Jennings.
A hi point
Be fair, even Jar-Jar isn't that dumb. Now giving him a Chauchat, and it actually working, that's Jar-Jar-esque.
@@nk_3332 Truer words have never been spoken.
_Hilarious!_
However, for the _real_ nerd, I bring to the attention of all, it was original intention of writer-producer-director George Lucas to eventually reveal Jar-Jar Binks as a Sith Lord -- _truth!_
Yes, this fan theory was confirmed by GL himself. The conceit was abandoned after the unpopularity of JJB in SW1, _The Phantom Menace,_ had debuted.
As a Sith Lord, JJB would have somehow made the ZiP into a functional weapon. Somehow.
Now we just need to get Ian a role as a Mandalorian armorer
YESSSSS.
My favourite thing about weapons in the films was that the Sand People use Jezails.
I am surptlrised that not a lot of people bring that up.
Some guy made a working Han Solo Blaster. Semiautomatic 9or.45? Cant recall but the thing works
*insert donkey noises*
@@williamconnally7727 😆
I had thought Sand People were basically based on Bedouins, but maybe there is an Afghani reference there given the gun. They more or less hit the beats: they're a nomadic warrior culture who are well adapted to their environment, outsiders tend to be prejudiced against them because of misunderstandings, and basically they try to protect themselves while others act violently toward them because they expect violence. The Mandalorian did a good job digging into this. Mando gets along with the Sand People even though they are usually hostile to outsiders because he is respectful of their culture. So his encounters with them are very different. Then you have Anakin basically expressing the take everyone else has by committing genocide.
Humans are actually offworlders on Tattooine, and the situation is much like early relationships between native americans and european colonists. The attitude in Mos Pelgo is obviously deliberately modeled on Westerns, much as Star Wars was originally based on spaghetti westerns and samurai movies. Much like back then, the townsfolk are basically trespassing in sand people land and don't see their own hostile actions toward the sand people. They only see the response, which they consider unreasoning and indefensible.
I've shot a Sterling that was a Star Wars gun converted back to a transferable MG, Its was soooooo Cool!
That's awesome
If only Star Wars film tech has higher fire rates.
@@teslashark there a few with fast fire rates, like the clone DC-15 blaster rifles
@@rokairu0-216 too bad i don't think those were ever real. like they never had firearms in them or maybe they were purely cg
@@greatmeme I remember hearing that the clone ones might have been based on MG-42s? Or some sort of LMG. Not sure. There were real props though.
Distressed "Please don't do this!" toward the end was great. I really like this kind of stuff, and look forward to more. I do understand the concern about the core focus of Forgotten Weapons, but it wouldn't hurt your credibility in my eyes anyway. Part of firearms history involves how they are used and become well known, after all.
Fun fact: The scopes on the E-11 blaster rifles are actually Sherman tank sights.
I don’t think thats true, looks like one of those hand held telescopes.
@@kadecase7470 It is, it's the M38 tank scope.
@@kadecase7470 Look up the e-11 and the m38 scope on google! It really is lol
Explains the accuracy
Some are M19. Both types were put the wrong way around.
In ESB there are no M38s, and M19s also show up on Han Solo's and Luke's DL-44 blasters. in ROTJ the E-11 blaster scopes were all casts or lookalikes of the M19.
I liked this, would prefer more side-by-side footage of the real guns vs just the prop and you explaining what the gun looked like originally
the Han gun's easy- just take off the scop & muzzle end and voila, a C96. the only other really add-on stuff is the coolg finds on the magazine well
This tradition continued into the prequels! Some of the palace gaurds in Episode 1 are carrying "CR-2"s, a blaster visibly built from a Calico with the distinctive magazine still attatched.
If any of you own Battlefront or it's sequel, they're a fun place to take a look at some of these props in high res as DICE had access to many of the originals while building their game.
The entire saga was just a Blastech marketing scheme.
The whole Star Wars universe is clearly a conspiracy by the military-industrial complex, I mean for fuck's sake those idiots actually built 2 Death Stars! Thousands of Star Destroyers, millions of clones who can't even shoot straight... The real winner of all this violence and bloodshed is the contractors for the Empire, hell they probably backed the rebels in secret just to sell more weapons.
Palpatine isn't an evil genius, he's a fool who got conned by the defense lobbyists.
@@MrMattumbo thats actually mentioned in some of the lore, there were a lot of planets and entire systems profiting off of all the wars
Starwars is just Jedi propaganda
@@MrMattumbo But weren't the clones actually good shots?
@@narutohokage20 yeah all the stormtroopers in the trilogy are volunteers
This series is gonna blow up when you start doing Westerns.
"In this scene, John Wayne uses a 73 Colt"
"In this scene, Clint Eastwood uses a 73 Colt"
In this scene, Gene Wilder uses a 73 Colt"
In this scene, Jack Palance uses a 73 Colt"
And so on
The MG15 was usually mounted in aircraft like the Heinkel He111. A fairly simple but light and elegant design, one of my favorite forgotten weapons. Thanks for including it!
At this point you can’t even so much as whisper about the Sterling or the Broomhandle without being bombarded by “this is the prop used in Star Wars”.
Sometimes even when it is a different model, such as the Mauser Schnellfeuer.
Or just stormtrooper jokes off the bat
Well, now we know he's covered every gun on this planet. He's now covering things from a galaxy far, far away.
There’s a shit ton of weapons in the Star Wars universe. Most of the editors on Wookipedia care more about tanks and planets. I catalogued every weapon from the six major armies. But let me tell ya straight up, the fact that they are two parallel universe makes it rather messy.
Yes, please, please, please do more videos of this nature! You are the most qualified and entertaining person to speak about film used firearms. I love your videos and movie weapon history/trivia is just as exciting to me as any firearm history. Keep up the good work.
"Good news trooper 2341, you get this MG-34!"
"Hooray!"
"Bad news trooper 8645, you get this Mk II Sten gun with a single-feed laser magazine..."
"Awww..."
And neither could hit the broadside of a Batha with them
@@SonsOfLorgar The same people that support the garbage TIE fighters. No Hyperdrive or life support systems. The TIE Defender was better.
Palpatine went to the lowest bidders to save money on that planet-destroying vanity project/jobs program of his. For reference, I've heard that some of the poor fellas in the Stormtrooper Corps had plastoid armor that broke from blows with armoury tools, or gaffi sticks from sand people.
@@robertfoley8414 Ima yell it out for the people in the back. Storm Troopers are NOT bad at shooting, they were hearding the heroes to the Millennium Falcon so that they could be followed. Its literally explained the second the heroes leave in the ship.
@@RyuuHatake That doesn't explain why they keep mostly missing the heroes in the rest of the trilogy. Also, no matter how well trained and indoctrinated a unit is, they wouldn't intentionally keep missing guys that have just gunned down bunch of their comrades... Much better explanation is Luke and Leia doing some kind of subconscious Force accuracy debuff on the Stormtroopers
Gun Jesus has added an Eleventh Commandment, "Though Shall Not Fuck Up a Mauser C96 to make a prop gun replica."
And verily he said, that outside would remain, the bubbas, fudds, and all those who would sacrilegiously modify or destroy firearms of past
I mean especially today given the progress made in 3D printing. for Cosplay or a display in your home theater room 3D printed will look fine really. Just have to do a good job painting using metallic paints.
Or as he said, use airsoft as a donor.
if you could convert a C96 to a Han Solo Blaster and have it still shoot well that would be pretty dope tho
@@commodorjack8633 Its been done!
@@PsychoticBovine and tracers fit the blaster fire
I just realized how horrible trigger discipline is in the Star Wars universe, it’s a miracle people weren’t being blasted by accident
Gotta have real bullets.
As a firearms nerd and a hardcore Star Wars nerd, I thank you so much for this :)
My father was an extra in the movie Zulu. They used Martini Henry's
The question is: were Zulus extras armed with the real stuff. :-)
Nicee
Some are MH. Other rifles were also used though as they didn't have enough MHs. You can see bolt-actions in some shots.
And spears. I imagine there were quite a lot of spears involved too.
Suggestion: Include a photo of the actual model the movie prop was made from when showing the prop.
Just a thought.
IMFDB has that
Ian, I think this could be a once a week episode, “prop guns of the movies”. Along the lines of the book reviews you release on weekends.
Yes with the Movies Zulu and Zulu Dawn as the next episode.
Bladerunner ofcourse.
Would be so much work though. Diminishing returns and what not
yes !!!
@@NSixtyFour, Ian has a lot of video of the original guns already in the bag, so it should be a matter of pulling some old video and adding some new audio recording, along with some stills from the series. That’s easier than making new, original content from scratch.
It’s 3 in the morning Ian......how did you know I didn’t wanna sleep.
Its 5 were I live bro
It's midday, you casuals
@@guyman9655 sameeee
5:05 for me (east coast)
Just in time for dinner. Lmao.
I'd love to see this again! I love how Lucas and his helpers made these from strange and unusual guns/forgotten guns to make them into Sci-fit weapons.
Ian "the last hope" McSolo presenting:
Forgotten Weapons from a galaxy far far away
all those scopes and everybody still missed.
Yup. 6 hours of non stop gun fights 100 to 1 odds....never a single hit. And horribly safety practices, no wonder actors hate guns so much. No clue about them.
no one told them to look through the scopes :P
What do you expect with those helmets obscuring your entire field of view except for a tiny mail slot in the front?
@@Stoney3K Luke used to bullseye whomprats wearing his mail slot helmet back home.
Blaster shoots gas relatively slow to bullets, I don't remember the numbers but they're as fast as a baseball ball so that means that is easy to dodge, the force of the empire and it's troops comes in numbers
DO IT MORE PLEASE Ian for some people this is history and you bridging the gap I feel is useful. In many ways this is a cross of art tech and guns I just cant get enough.
Can't remember where I heard it but I recall that they wanted star wars to have a "used" feel to it instead of the slick shiny things most sci fi's did.
I would love to see more of this. Both for star wars and other franchise's that dress up historical firearms.
Lucky enough to have visited Bapty on many occasions, I work in film and TV so very much a go to place if I can't source from my own armoury. My fave comment from the owner (def a collector!) was 'Griff, if you ever need a deck mounted nordenfeldt, look what I've just bought from the Congo. used the be on the kaisers yacht'. To this day... nope, not been asked. still waiting! Brilliant place.
This was cool, and honestly I would be absolutely thrilled with a “history” video of an E-11 in the style of GarandThumb’s MA5 review he did for April Fools
As would I, gearing Ian being just as professional, whislt talking about a fictional weapon does sound VER entertaining.
Ian dressed up in New Republic Intelligence uniform going over it like he does most of the other weapons he talks about?
Sign me the hell up
There was such information, then it got tossed in 1999 or 2000 with the first semi-purge of official-but-not-canon, following the bankruptcy of West End Games and the RPG license going into limbo. But even then, all that was ever official was a couple paragraphs, and Hidalgo has done his best to destroy it. Like five or six lines in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, some of which contradicts what is generally accepted about about blasters, a few more in Han Solo Corporate sector novels which has the same problem. Bits in pieces in roleplaying game supplements which got duplicated by Zahn, Anderson and Stackpole who all used West Ends material for reference. Other novels had random crap. And wookiepedia includes too much trash from video games that was created without referencing canon (either mouse cannon or legends canon) other than for a few model numbers and a poor understanding of the Galaxy and THEN Hidalgo crammed it in sideways with a hammer after he stopped giving a damn.
And before people ask, yes, Im a nerd. Most of my hobbies relate to bushcraft, shooting or science fiction. Piss off. :P
@@tenchraven Was gonna say you had a pretty solid grasp on what happened to Star Wars canon in my experince.
Ian really missed a chance to have the Forgotten Weapons logo burst onto the screen.
Forgotten weapons title crawl
Probably so Disney doesn't destroy the video.
Yes please. Just watched your mandalorian video and was utterly stoked to see you'd done another Starwars video. Don't let the next one be a year like this time please.
At the end you say "this is movie props and not real history" Star Wars A new hope is like 43 years ago. sounds like history to me. Oh and I was 10 years only in 1977. and it part of my history.
Also "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." So historical and exotic to boot.
Guys, cinema history doesn't count I'm world history. Not until actual weapons are designed and fielded on a real battlefield that were designed on movie concepts, as opposed to the other way around.
That'll probably happen in my life time though. Jet packs and rail guns are JUST around the corner.
@@Mygg_Jeager I mean theres probably a star wars galaxy out there somewhere haha
In case you missed it, Din / The Mandalorian's 1894 recently got an in-universe name: Blastech IB-94. With "IB-94" obviously resembling "1894". :)
Thats a nice little detail, I'm glad Someone in control of the cannon has some creativity and passion.
Thank you- I knew about the MG-42 and the Storm Trooper Sterling because a gun collector friend of mine told me years ago. So much fun to hear about it all.
This is interesting and I wouldn’t mind seeing more.
I second this statement
Agreed. Nice thing to throw in the mix every now and then.
Hes gotta do em all at some point
It's wild playing Star Wars Battlefront and just going, "Wait a minute, this is just a Lewis Gun. I'm hip firing a Lewis Gun." I would love to see more of these actually.
Thanks to "Walking Fire" tactics, hip-firing a Lewis was an actual military idea back in the Great War...According to C&Arsenal's research, the Canadians in particular were notable for actually making the whole crazy debacle actually feasible.
...I mean, walking fire across No-Man's land was still insanity, but it was slightly less so when you're providing it from a brawny French-Canadian Lumberjack with a special sling set up, to provide bursts of fire from what is effectively a SAW, so you can go H/LMG hunting in a German trench...
Ian forgot that rifle Luke was holding at the beginning of the movie.
And the sand people rifle
@@mancubwwa
Neither of which are real firearms.
Cycler rife is canon name
What about Chewbacca's bowcaster?
@@nichevo1 probably a crossbow
I apprecicate how he worked to get everything within the SW universe right. Ian deserves more credit than he gets
This is history that most people don't know about. I think it is fascinating. Thanks Ian.
I thought that it was a pretty well-known fact that all of the guns in the movie were based on WW2-era firearms.
@@SeaPhantom it wasn’t too well known, I didn’t know it? And that Jawa gun was WW1. Or Laya’s Russian target pistol? I’d say the props people did an excellent job with what they had to work with. Except, I never got the point behind Chewbacca’s crossbow laser?
for anyone who DOES want to make a dl-44 without desecrating a broomhandle, you can do it with the AR-platform, i think someone even makes a kit for it.
Star Wars, Guns and WW2 .. Now all the interesting topics finally come together!
no, we need Pirates!
George Lucas borrows a huge amount of technical imagery from WW II. That's why the movie felt so easily relatable. It also felt more real than one with flashy sci-fi weapons. His target audience had grown up watching WW II movies.
See you at a million views. This is definitely going to get picked up by the algorithm and go viral.
Not an ideal release time to trend, but that's also not most of the point.
im going to help by leaving a like and comment
@Fondil Mahbols A guy firing 9mm tracer rounds just got algorithm'd the other day, was uploaded I think 6 years ago and went from 15-20k views to 120k views in less than 20 hours.
Star wars theory was livestreaming the current season ending of the Mandalorian and was crying, bawling his eyes out when Luke arrived!
"By the power of ammosexuals and Star Wars fanbois combined..."
Happy New Year Ian, thanks for all your vids.
Gun Jesus is the Chief of the Empire's Ordnance Department.
Gun Jesus would be war minister in The Empire
I love the crossover of firearms and film. This IS history.
Nerd history is still history
Thistory, if you will
"We are merely passing THROUGH history, but this..."
(pats broomhandle mauser)
"...this IS history."
Movie history could be a subgenre of art history. It's legit I think.
I really enjowed this. Great video. I would've liked more pictures of the real guns side by side though.
Great stuff, please more of it. If you happen to have the time for such a side jobs.
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Loved it! Please do more of these. I can't believe I didn't recognize the MG34 and the Lewis gun in Star Wars before! Recognized the broom-handled Mauser years ago, though.
Gun Jesus should be referred to as Blaster Jesus when talking about Star Wars, thank you.
Blastech jesus
Gun Jesus is one of the good guys, call him Master Jesus as he is a Master of the Props. "Use the Props, Luke..."
He doesn’t even look like Jesus. He has no beard.
This is the way.
I approve this.
Please carry on, make this a series, covering all the small arms of Star Wars
The cut down SMLE that the Jawas used was actually a British WW2 era AFV smoke dispenser. Some of them even had their handles completely cut off and solenoids attached to their triggers so they could be fired from inside the vehicle.
2 AM, I'll sleep when Jedi Master Ian's done lecturing.
Ditto
Bold of you to assume his allegiance...
Which is never...
The Death Star was just a very large cannon firing a green tracer
What? A 5000mm cannon?
Sturmtiger
This kinda series fits perfectly with the channel. It's just another part of the firearms history.
Blas Tech is also known as Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Merde de Elbonia.
Ah yes, my favorite gun, the FNAME E-11
laughed more than I should at "armes de merde"
It means Factory National of Gun Of Shit Of Albania
@@clarkmirkbell880 Elbonia is from Dilbert cartoon and in atleast two Ian videos it was used to refer to Egyptian arms actually.
Well, guess I’m staying up just a bit longer.
Same lol
I vibe with that
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Oof it’s 10:49AM where I am
Yeah it’s 3 am for me lol
Please continue with the movie gun angle as an addition to your usual top shelf content...thanks for your efforts,you continue to be my favorite YT channel
A bit of lore for the rebel pistol: they were often bought on the black market and stolen from imperial shipments.
I love how they use blanks and actually fire in the OT, vs the prequels and sequels using nonfunctional props only. Padme jerking her hand like a child playing pretend is so strange lol
ROTS is the best Star Wars film
@@pieterandjuanchronicles9849 go to sleep dude you're tired
@@pieterandjuanchronicles9849 Calling it the best is a bit of a stretch imo, it's in solid third place for me. 1) Empire Strikes Back, 2) A New Hope, and 3) ROTS.
@@neruneri I would agree with this.
It's one of those things that failed the risk/reward test, over time. Blanks are safer, but never entirely safe, and adds considerably to the cost of the prop when the weapons are modded as they were in Star Wars. And while you get proper muzzle flash, that's not a complex effect anymore, nor is it hard to time lights to simulate the flash on set. Everything else is down to the actor.
When you don't need to put actors and crew at risk, you shouldn't. And that's wittled away at the utility of blank-firing weapons and similar kinda of practical effects.
Something for the film buffs: Han Solo's blaster is a conversion from a film prop already previously altered for a previous film.
In the 1960s, Oliver Reed plays a professional assassin who uses a multi-part gun assembled from a case of parts: the C96 selbstladung pistole, converted to have a stock, a long suppressor, and a scope to fit on top.
The central part of that prop became Han Solo's pistol, with the muzzle brake from an aircraft machine gun, and with added radio-control plane parts ( the cylinders and pushrods from a plastic scale radial aircraft engine made as parts for radio control aircraft modellers, specifically.
The Jawa guns weren't converted for the movie, they were converted as smoke launchers for use in tanks in WW2.
They're not, the smoke launchers didn't have stocks.
@@catfish552 Well yes, they had grips attached for the film I meant they weren't cut down just for the movie, the guns existed already.
@@michaelwinsper6275 look at the size of the cup. the smoke launcher one is a lot bigger compared to the one on the jawa blaster. it would be as big as the entire receiver.
@@niffirg1113 yes. but they could have use them, thus avoiding making those new props.
It’s crazy how Harrison Ford and Frank Sinatra used the same modified Mauser
@@brodynightingale6031 He's saying the very same C96 that was made into Han's DL-44 prop was previously used by Frank Sinatra's character in the 1967 movie The Naked Runner...
Please do more of these.
I always thought the Princess Leia pistol looked like a power washer.
A friend photographer of mine, Alexander Sliussarev, used to say: "There's a small transformer building near my house, every day I go by it I se how the light strikes the brick work and I make a photograph, a year later a small birch tree starts growing out of the wall and I take picture, and so on and so forth, hundreds of plain, boring images.... years later the thing is torn down, and now all these images are history".
Movie props are not real history while the movie is being shot, they are "tools", once the movie is out technically they are real history, add a legend or two, a couple of fanatics and place in culture and there is no perceptible difference between "real" history and "history"....
Yes most of the prop-guns did not serve the original purpose, some of them are not even guns, but they _are_ history =)
This was a nice change of the usual pace. I would like to see more of such videos and maybe include in the text screen section of the name not just the fictitious title but also the one from the original it is based on. Thank you Ian and a happy new year.
Forgotten Weapons and Star Wars?
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
These are the weapons you are looking for
FW video: "Gun laws in [insert country here]"
Me: "Oh, no, I'm not brave enough for politics."
I'd love to see an Indiana Jones series version of this, covering all the anachronisms. Such as MP38 and MP40 submachine guns and RPGs in 1936 Egypt. Might be fun!
Also, the way Indy's sidearms change depending on which country scenes were filmed in.
Heck yeah Ian, please do some more of these every now and again.
Luke didn't destroy the Death Star, it was Ian raiding their armory.
The rebellion was just a cover story so that no one would realize how many guns he had stolen.
XD Rebel Ian
@@SuspiciouslyGroomedPegasus gun dealer Ian!
"Use the MAS-36, Ian!!!" 😂😂
2:13 Thank you for using the technical term "Greebles."
A.k.a., _greeblies._
"Certain plans of mine require additional Greebles." -Dale Greeble 😂
That was actually a term invented by ILM for the junk they stuck on their ship models to make them look less plain.
I’m just gonna throw this out there- Same idea as this video, but for Firefly
nobody knows or cares about firefly
@@crazysilly2914 You are so very wrong.
@@aussie870 firefly is a rip-off of Star Wars but sh!ttier and lower budget...
@@crazysilly2914 Firefly has very little in common with Star Wars other than space and guns. Firefly has the capacity for a much darker tone since it isn't aimed at kids at all.
I really don't see how a low budget means anything, since the newer Star Wars movies had a HUGE budget and still managed to be absolute dogshit.
@@aussie870 Firefly is kinda niche though, compared to Star Wars, very few people have heard of it...
You gotta do the Aliens pulse rifle and smart gun too, heck even the Marine's helmets.
Part Thompson Part Remington 870 and part Spas12
Smartgun was an MG-34 with spade grips, mounted on a steadi-cam rig.
This is great. Kind of a “where are they now” type thing. More please.
Please do some more of this type of video in the future. You have the ability to make many different things interesting.
Star Wars AND Gun Jesus?
I feel like the first time I bullseyed a womp rat in my T-16.
I feel like I finally managed to reach Tosche Station.
Okay, looking at some of the stills from the movie, I'm realizing just how TERRIBLE the Trigger Discipline is on the set. Almost every Storm Trooper, and even Hamil himself had fingers on the trigger/in the trigger guard... That worries me.
it was the 70's...
@@crazysilly2914 To be fair, gun safety hasn't changed THAT much since the 70s
@@Oddytwin its a joke.
People say "it was the -0's" whenever they are trying to dismiss something done in poor judgement or taste that wouldn't fly nowadays that they did in the past
That's why most of the guns were rubber/resin castings.
No chance of an oops putting a tracer into an extra or worse yet a lead talent.
I noticed too but in some areas its aceptible with some characters, but yah i cringed watching this
A280 - STG44
A280-CFE - M4
T-21 - Lewis gun
NT-242 - Barrett 82
IQA-11 - L96A1
DL-44 - Mauser
DLT-19 - MG34
RT-97C - MG15
Shock Blaster - Lee Enfield SMLE
I believe that Ian has opened a box that can never be sealed.
The Jawa blaster could also be based on the british smoke dischargers that where mounted on early ww2 tanks. these where cutdown enfields with a cup added to the barell
Or, not as directly, the WWII Commando SMLE .45s...the barrel was massively cut down and replaced with a large silencer, while the action was replaced to work as a sub-sonic .45-calibre carbine.
This is perfect for the little holiday fun videos. I’d say keep doing them here and there.
Can’t wait till we see 40k boltguns, “ hi guys it’s Ian and today we’re blowing up heretics”
I want to see a Boltgun Mud test now.
But will Ian record the 14 hours of prayer and rituals to the machine spirit needed before hand?
@@dd11111 LISTEN HERE BROTHER! ALL YOU NEED IS TO HAVE FAITH IN THE MACHINE SPIRIT OF YOUR WEAPON AND IT WILL FIRE EVEN WHEN CLOGGED WITH THE ENTRAILS OF XENOS SCUM.
Also yes, I think Gun Jesus doing a small side series on fictional weapons would be awesome.
Emperor protects..
If only.
It's fun to spread out and do other little side things like this every now and then