Build Your Own Aliens M41-A Pulse Rifle - DIY Prop Shop
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We build so many amazing weapons and props, we wanted to offer a show where you at home could build them yourself! Follow along with our host Dustin McLean (“Homemade Movies”) as he shows you how to build awesome props from all of your favorite movies & games, for under $50!
This week, make like Ripley and build your own Pulse Rifle from Aliens. Flame Thrower optional.
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Host & Producer - Dustin McLean
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Huh, the next time you decide to do one of these, let me know. With your resources and my experience we could do something really exceptional and... you know... FUNctional.
LordDraconical I could definitely see you two make that but into a working version, plus multiple other weapon too. We shall see. ( Also Love the videos man. keep up the good work. )
Exactlly! An awesome prop maker plus an extreme nerf professional could make a good team.... Maybe calling Lord Drac as a special guest or smthing.... Besides even drac made some functional prop guns in cosplays that he joined
LordDraconical How did you find yourself here? Reddit?
LordDraconical Yes, a functional Alien Weapon would be an excellent NERF Prop
Omg its drac
one of my favorite franchises of all time. thank you. aliens
I LOVED THIS! I was a costumer in Hollywood for many and I would have to slap together stuff like this all the time.
I think you nailed the spirit of the M41-A Pulse Rifle and I really enjoyed watching you make it.
Fun stuff, Ripley would be proud!
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AWE me you shouldve used a leaf for the camo paint job
AWE me make alucard from hellsing guns.
Can you guys make Shay's rilfe from assassin's creed rogue?
u should do the elemental staffs from origins calle of duty black ops 2 pls do it
Do a pip-boy 3000!
Holy freakin' SH** he actually called it a magazine instead of a clip!!! Excellent!!!! Looks badass :)
I got my daughter one last year
***** Awesome!
It's a cool gun to be honest
MrLeonidas0001 "Tactical Adventure Lifestyle" That is pretty funny. After I got out of the hospital and got my possessions back from the cops whomever recorded the items on the bag actually wrote "2 clips". Don't know exactly who it was but it was someone who worked for law enforcement in Texas, I do know that much. Doesn't that make you scratch your head? Haha
Shinobi HOG Hahaha go figure bro!
I'm not understanding the angry comments haha as a cosplayer, I'd have to say that this is an awesome diy version. It fits most prop rules and regulations for conventions and it looks almost IDENTICAL. Who cares if it can't actually shoot...go buy a damn replica then!! I'd be kicked out of the con or asked to check my prop in and then there goes my whole outfit. WICKED VIDEO. I'm starting mine next week, will definitely credit you in photo ops etc
Exactly! And these videos are FOR those people that don't just have hundreds of $ to spend on a prop gun
@@Bebozzi Yeah, agree 🤙🤙🤙
I honestly liked it, and this is a film prop not a functioning Nerf mod, it's supposed to look good on camera. You could easily put more time and money (if applicable) into it. This was NOT meant to be a functioning Nerf gun, bear that in mind.
Kaiju17 This guy gets it.
+Dustin McLean I love the video 🙂🙃😱😨🤓😎🤗🤑😛😝😜😚😌😍😘😗😙😋☺️😊😄😅😆😇😉😃😂😆😁😬😀
+Dustin McLean he sure does
Could've used a thin piece of plastic to make the ammo screen look better
CJWorks Or cover it with a single piece of clear tape. I show that in the next episode.
Dustin McLean Next episode? So you're making another gun?! Yay!
+Caleb Faulkner don't get too exited we never know.
+CJWorks Could have elevated it a little with another piece of cardboard otherwise aswell.
Dustin McLean
Oh nice. Look forward to seeing it there then :).
Why is literally every person which talks about crafts on youtube a better teacher than the ones at our school.
How about some Dragon Ball Z Saiyan armor? It looks pretty simple and I'd love to make some. :)
Lefty Jones Omg Yes ! The saiyajin armor !!! :D
There's already a predator gauntlet on this channel it's under Man at Arms reforged and it works perfectly cuts melons like a hot knife slices butter literally.
Lefty Jones or dragon ball power sacaner gogols
Yes the saiyan armor would be awesome
Lefty Jones Agreee!! Especially speaking about saiyan armor :D...
he could have just used a 25 dollar plastic m4a1 Thompson spring airsoft gun as the base because the original base of the original prop weapon was a Thompson
ActionTrollStudios too true... Although I live I Australia and I'm not sacrifice my retaliator for this.
It is based off of an m4/m4a1 carbine not a Thompson
The functioning Pulse Rifles were constructed from three real-world firearms - an M1A1 Thompson submachine gun as the rifle frame, and a cut-down Remington Model 870 covered with the handguard and slide action sleeve of a Franchi SPAS-12 for the grenade launcher
Weapons used making the components of the gun:
SPAS-12
M1A1 Thompson
870 Remington
(Plus some plastic and rubber)
Proof? Right here: www.businessinsider.com/m41a-pulse-rifle-from-aliens-real-life-version-2017-6
*u hacked the system FBI wants to know ur location*
As a Nerf Modifier, this video made me cry out in despair as you butchered so much of everything in this video. You could have done things so much more easily if you had unscrewed the blaster and parts. Also we never never never fuse both sides of the blaster's shell with glue.
Mica T And making it non-functional :/
Lucas Lucas This is gold.
Lucas Lucas using greentext outside 4chan is a much bigger indicator for being a virgin.
Oh man, @Mica T, you were the one on the old unofficial nerf Facebook page who made that pulse rifle, weren't you? I remember you and one other guy were in a race to build it. That was actually the first thing I thought about when I saw this video in my sub box. Pretty trippy seeing someone I know randomly in the comments.
This is Obi, by the way.
+Hadeseffect don't you mean meme arrows?
As much as I love this build, and this channel, and Dustin even! I wonder if I'm alone in thinking it feels like he hasn't actually seen "Aliens." Am I crazy? It doesn't matter, he's a craftsman of a very high calibre(pun unintended), but does anyone agree?
I can say I have officially made it from following this guide. it's taken me quite a while and alot of pausing and replays but I've done it and it looks awesome.
would be so much cooler if the gun can still fire nerf darts, but that would mess up the look, right?
Yeah, it would.
No, it wouldn’t all you’d have to do is use a barrel material with a larger diameter than that on a nerf dart (ideally .75 inch or more). And since removed the priming slide, you’d have to gat a bolt conversion kit...
@@Polymath2B and that would be on the side, so that it looks like the thompson slide from the actual movie prop
Make a Mega-man laser hand !
yes
lord Beaver Mega Buster
Yaas genius
YES WE FUKING THIS SHIT
Plz do mega man blaster
For the painting of the cardboard shell, the actual shell of the gun can be either tan or green. The reason why it can be either is because the actual shell for the prop weapon was painted tan. Now, y'all are probably saying, 'But in the film, it's green.' That's because of the post-production color correction that was done on the film, which instead of keeping the tan color, the color correction turned it to green. If you see pictures of the real prop, you can see it has a tan shell. This often confuses people because they remember the shells being green. However, that's the difference between if you want to be accurate to the prop or be screen-accurate (meaning to how it appears in the film). But, either of the two colors are correct, depending on what you want to go.
Good to know. Thanks.
anhnh vn Glad to be able to help. I'm a member of the Replica Prop Forum, and many fans have done their own Nerf M41-A Pulse Rifle builds, as well as do their own replicas of the Pulse Rifles. :)
Directions not clear, Xenomorph burst from my chest.
well that just means you forgot to pull the trigger
More like you forgot to use the flamethrower
Al Capwn iiii
Hol up
aren't you supposed to be dead?
Nice reference
you could have used the nerf rapidstrike
True
no it's too expensive for TRANSFORMING IT INTO SOMETHING USELESS
+NightmareTiger but you have to admit, it looks sweet as a finished product
Dude I don't think he cares about nerf guns I mean Look at it at the end wow
Very very true
RIP retaliator. We honour you with respect for your sacrifice
low budget
if you have a gluegun, gluestics, superglue, glue accelerator, spraycollors, carboard, pipes, screws, saw, workplace, screwdriver and tape of course....
Yeah, not exactly low budget if you already have a workshop.
SuperWaistcoat he doesn't have a workshop. He's literally doing this in his dining room
Henrique Silva He has a freaking rotary saw! No normal person would have that!
If you are even remotely interested in crafts, then you have this stuff. Probably could've gone to Goodwill and picked up a gun for a couple $.
Red T you don't need to have a workshop you could do this in your room I don't think you even need to buy a Nerf gun it probably find a similar gun at the Dollar Store and glue gun and a glue stick is at the dollar store for like a couple dollars you don't have to use superglue you could just use a glue gun that way you don't have to use an accelerator and the spray painter probably be the only thing expensive about this project because they cost about $10 also cardboard doesn't cost money and you don't even need to use PVC pipes you could just wrap up tubes of cardboard or you could just wrap up tubes of foam
Awesome. But shouldn`t the ammo counter display have been on the left side?
How is he going to know how much ammo he got left?
***** It's on the right side so that the camera sees it .
Glendon Griffith
Ok. But that still gives quite the disadvantage.
Because what soldier has time to check the right side of his/her rifle during a heated gunfight?
***** it makes no sense practically, but it was designed that way for the movie because it looks way cooler. if real life guns had digital ammo counters like that then yeah they would be on the other side, or perhaps even the back. but for a movie it just looks cooler there :P
***** all depends on how you hold it, some prefer it left handed and then the display is correctly placed. Besides, if it was supposed to be efficient, just have the thing by the "scope".
Henrik Nordkvist
Well im right handed so i wouldn`t really be able to look at the display.
who else has the retaliator and loves it
no one. it sucks.
+NoraGaKill you suck, the retaliator is the one of the best springers out there!
+NoraGaKill also springers are superior to flyweels
+Jacob Lopez you sir, are an idiot. the rampage or alpha trooper are superior springers. besides, I personally prefer air blasters. the Retaliator is super awkward and has no slam fire.
+NoraGaKill for one I didn't say that the retaliator was the the best I said it was one of the best ones, I would personally say first the rampage, then maybe the rough cut, then the retaliator
The gun looks good without the cardboard
love it im going to make one and play with it
Pro tip: the original prop was made using a Thompson sub machine gun. And some companies make airsoft versions that are pretty cheap so if you want to make one that is a bit more accurate. Use one of those.
Directions were not clear enough I got my foot stuck in the washing machine
Mine got stuck in the roof :/
bradjr10 I know an even more original comment. Here it goes.
I used to write original comments, then I took an arrow to the Darude - Sandstorm.
+My Names Tommy. ._. ......nope
bradjr10 Have you tried to turn your foot on and off again?
+Meo AgCat yes i tried the power on and off. And i changed the batteries and my diaper... But now my other foot is stuck in the roof and I'm out of apple care :n ;
the cardboard ruined it a bit for me :S I know you can get thin plastic sheets, I would probably have used those instead
+TwiztidMaGiC Cardboard is like the most used cosplay material ever. Most crazy armor sets you'll see in cosplay are cardboard.
+TwiztidMaGiC go on then, do it and make a video
kingdavewoody SJW to the rescue!
Here's the thing, I can make a comment regarding the use of cardboard and if there's other material that would suit better, without having to make a video myself ;)
Been collecting warhammer for 18 years and creating scenery with different materials, I know there's other stuff to use and I get that carboard is just easier to get a hold on, but I'm also a perfectionist and if I were to create such a weapon I would use that material.
Now go back to your troll lair ;)
TwiztidMaGiC
What did you call them an SJW...?
TotalMetalJacket social justice warrior, he clearly believes that he has to rescue this channel from the evil that is me because I had the audacity to write that maybe you should use a different type of material. As stated in my comment I clearly wrote that I would probably use another material, but this was lost on him...
PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW BACK
Gravity Gun or Portal Gun
i wuld love to See him du that
Portal Gun😀
YESSSSS
Please make the Artorias's swors from dark souls
Ho boy, does it look like a piece of cake making the cardboard shroud, but bugger me sideways if it isn't by far THE most intricate and tricky part of the entire build. Probably took Dustin a couple days, including paint-drying times n having a family, but I'm still floundering about like a ten-thumbed chump weeks into it! I doff my cap to these talented artisans; they earn every penny x
i would like to see you make a HE-Man power sword
You are really good at this stuff. My two cents... I would have used a real digital display. I know it's DIY on the cheap but for me I'd rather go the extra mile and pay more to make it look like the movie. Especially if it's going to be displayed as a prop in my home. I'm picky though.
I would even go further that when you pull the trigger (it doesn't even have to move), a soundfile would play the noise it makes in the movie, and the digital display would count down :D
U two just buy the airsoft one, it has everything u guys want
Evan after watching everything come together… my mouth still dropped at the finished product 🙀
More like
"Build Your Own Cardboard M41-A Glue Rifle - DIY Prop Basement"
marklenthecool Doesn't have the same ring to it
Dustin McLean it's the truth. you can also call this: "let's destroy a $27 toy gun and glue some crap on it".
+Mephisto28890 You know, if you would invest the time and effort that he has into building these props then you would know that it's not easy.
+Dustin McLean the M4A-1 Pulse Rifle is great😍
M41-A*
why the hell would you want to glue the magazine in?
WillIsNotDead he's not making it functional
WillIsNotDead if you will make it just dont put that
It could front load *or* load through the jam door. Just make it how ya want to be honest!
*bendy devil nobody wants a breach load
That's bloody epic fair play.
OMG FIRST MOM GET THE CAMERA
D34dlyxdUDe Too late :)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Rory McDonald Ty .-.
wow skrub
D34dlyxdUDe Nope?, DENIED, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH
sry.
coop77 could have used that nerf gun for moding
It's coop 772
Lel
Yeah and he probably could have made it work
one of them (Dustin) lives in Cali and another one of them (coop) lives in Florida
+yolo123 12345 you dont understand it look for coop772 on UA-cam
9:50 dude,it looks just like it
it's not convincing, it still looks like a nerf gun with some cardboard glued on. perhaps some pvc adhesive around the edges of the cardboard to make a smoother edge?
_The cardboard edges really throw me off the entire build..._
yeah, I'm building that right now, and I'ts kinda throwing me off as well
this guy was my fave in this series
instead of buying two cans of brown and green, just buy the correct color- an olive
Why did he glue the magazine on it would be so much cooler but nice gun
he glues the clip in because he took the part of the top that cocks the gun, made it the shot gun pump, when you take that part off the gun wont hold the clip in anymore, i agree shitty deal its fixed but if it wasnt it would not stay in for sure
Wrong, the Orange button on the side in front of the trigger does all the work to hold the Magazine in place, there is a "hook" on the inside that slots into a hole on the magazine.
The slide has nothing to do with it.
on mine it doesnt release till i the slide is back. but i will admit i was wrong. good call sir. or madam. internet person
all good, Nerf guns are very finnicky and have trouble doing things consistently cross all guns pretty often.
The Legend of Gingers I t
That was awesome!! Really good work. I'm a huge Alien fan and that pulse rifle is so cool!
The shotgun from Jurassic Park
should have used a demolisher
Still looks cool though. Just to add.
the Nerf modules ECS-10 would have worked better
Drew B. stop get some help its not modules its modulus
gaming taco 8
I think that the rapidstrike would work great forthis
The M-41 Pulse Rifle is one of my favorite guns
Could just bought a rapidstrike you literally need a stock thing
Bass Machine no because it's cheaper to get the retaliatory the rapid strike is like 35 bucks
Blake Teer but it would still work lol, who doesn't love a functional prop
Bass Machine
Bass Machine yeah and need to paint the rapidstrike
gjallahorn from destiny
YES PLZ!!!!!!
team deadsilinse YES
team deadsilinse I think we leave that to the professionals in nerf/destiny projects.
Woah there Drac
LordDraconical :)
This is actually pretty cool for a budget prop
WHY WOULD YOU GLUE THE MAG IN?
+Rey Mysterio the barrel isnt functional so whats the point?
ScorpDoesRBLX he couldn't get it out anyway, the priming slide was hidden by the cardboard
why didn't you keep it as a functional Nerf gun?
It's meant to be a prop. Read the title of this series bro...
Even thoe, I love it, when my props still Keep some functionality.
Jan Klinkenberg It will mess up the design if you keep it a functional nerf gun.
Just think about it. It wouldn't take much more than a slightly larger Barrel to keep it working. That surely keeps in the range of artistic liberty.
Jan Klinkenberg He's trying to make it cheaper and accurate. Besides, if you don't glue the magazine, scope, ect down, it's probably going to slip off. Even if you don't goue it diwn, the paint will make the magazine non functional.
This was easily one of the best DIY m41a Pulse Rifle I've ever seen! So creative this dude.
I own high quality movie version and I gotta say super nice build, $27 beats the $2500
Budget Pipboy 3000
That's not a Grenade launcher, it's a integrated shotgun
In aliens it is
in aliens it's a pump action grenade launcher
Okay so you did the M41 Pulse Rifle? NOW! Lets see you do the whole M56 Smartgun with harness, AND swivel cam system. Low budget wise. XD
I miss dustin :(
me too
+Dynamic im Glad hes gone. Fucking Finally.
Crimbus Bimbus
shut up >:(
Dynamic me too I don't like the new people
Dynamic :(
all these people on here complaining. lets see you make something instead of just sitting here judging other peoples stuff!!!
KJM I know right!
KJM I too don't understand what criticism is.
Ever not like a movie? Make a better movie. Go on. Make one with that flawless logic of yours.
Agreed
no just no
You make it look so easy!
I **CRINGED** When he put the Retaliator Foregrip Backwards
MythicForgeXP yes me too!
Second UA-cam lol
MythicForgeXP true same
I *CRINGED* When you made this pointless comment
MythicForgeXP that's what I said he doesn't know you can do that
there's no way im doing that to my nerf retaliator
Goodness! That’s real cool!
halo 2 battle rifle please make that
Wow that cardboard looks bad
Yeah you can clearly tell it's cardboard and not metal, he could have added extra paint to look like scratches making it look metal and not cardboard
KingOfTheRoad
Kiva the liva Kamen rider kiva I think that he could have done better, you can clearly see the cardboars "lines"
KingOfTheRoad wow you look bad
KingOfTheRoad use a coat or two of mod podge on the cardboard
Sweet gun Dustin, Aliens is very cool to watch.
just buy an Airsoft m41-A its cheaper and can actually shoot
a nerf gun can shoot, you need a license for realistic airsoft guns and no it's not cheaper
u dont need a license in Germany and yes a nerf gun on its own is cheaper but not everybody has the equipment to craft one like in the video, so that means you have to buy it and that makes it more expensive
It's definitely not cheaper. They're like $500. It will look better though.
depending on how strong the fire power of the gun is, i saw some for 40-60€ with 0,5 joul
+Leonard Hebold An Airsoft gun and all these tools is more expensive than a Nerf blaster and all the tools.
Now that I'm seeing this i might just purchase one after i see the movie 😁
He's so creative I swear
this guy knows his stuff
omg this was awesome!!!! ty for this vid. its great to see fellow makers like me at work. we cant all afford industrial lathes ans 3d printers so i love seeing work with tools and materials people can afford ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
Game over man! GAME OVER!!!
That is a great prop looks pretty on point. M41a pulse rifle magazines are usually scaled back to 95 from 99 as the 10 mm explosive tip caseless rounds tend to jam at 99 round in the magazine the colonial marines found that dropping it to a 95 count stopped a lot of the jamming issues. Anyway so I have heard
And then years later, NERF would officially make a Aliens Pulse Rifle Blaster
You want a story? Years ago I sent a letter to the Nerf branch of Hasbro arguing for them to make this rifle. I included the thumbnails of dozens of these videos and their views, including this one, as evidence of consumer interest. I actually got a response along the lines of “as much as we would like to, due to the mature nature of the films it wouldn’t align with the brand image of Hasbro and Nerf. I now keep that letter in the box with their rifle now.
Awesome.! Have you tried using bed liner instead of paint?
Portal gun, portal gun, portal gun !
Thanks for your videos
Awesome prop! I tried this for a Star Wars gun and used different shapes and paints to make it look like captain phasma's gun
You make this seem so easy
Best mod ever
Cool vid, but I like to add that some people, like myself & my daughter, can be really sick when using superglue-accelerrant...
Instead ( thanks Mythbusters) you can use backing-soda for accelerator.
Dustin is my favourite
Wow i thought it would look childish when u were done but no it looked almost exactly like the pulse rifle good job man
Love the stylised titles
Pretty cool and very interesting. You definitely have a lot more patience than I do for making something like this.
If you glue the mag, but use a pipe for existing barrell does that mean it works if I dont glue the mag?
And you can actually shoot with it if you change some things and spray the magazine seperatly.
Damn that gun looks BAD ASS!
How much would u sell a replica of the pulse rifle for. I could never build this because to get all the components i would need to buy the tools which would be more to make but that is awesome
Im a full fan of all the Alien (s) and i thank you so much for doing this work :D
Great job bro :)
I'm making this right now, but you could have been more clear on how to take the slide off. Because I'm late in the game and have screwed stuff in, but then I figures out you have to take the gun apart to get the slide off!
Dude nice work.
I just bought a second one. I'm gonna try this
I am past the assembly, she's outside with a nice primer coat. I have all the metal done. Scary part is the cardboard. If I get this even close... thank you.
Extremely good 👍
I'm gonna make this soon
Hellboy's Right Hand of Doom
preferably wearable, but for display would be cool too.
nice idea to make a simple riffles for kidz to play with
AWESOME