SERENITY'S cannon (1/35th scale folk art)

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From Josh Whedon's sci-fi western space opera, a 2cm Flak 38 became a maguffin towards the end of the movie.

https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Serenity#2_cm_Flak_38

I had an unbuilt ancient TAMIYA kit and wanted to do something different with it. Comparing the stills above to the kit, it was mostly straightforward while deleting the armor shields and mounting hardware (see also Post #3)

Aside from brief glimpses, there's only a few lines of dialogue to set the stage.

Jayne, you and Wash hoist up that cannon mount.

Goes right on top. Piece or two of the other ship, stick it on. Any place you can tear hull without inner breach, do that too.

(looking around)

And we're gonna need paint. We're gonna need red paint.

 

we pull back out to see the whole of Serenity for the first time: It is hardly recognizable.
Charred corpses on the nose, Cannon atop with a space-suited corpse draped within, long scars, welded-on parts and war paint...
the trail of green light burns out with sporadic bursts of vapor.

It looks, for all the world, like a Reaver ship.

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The next question was 'how to display it like it's on SERENITY's hull', without getting bogged down with minutia.

A tuna can became a notional deck, with a foil yogurt lid inverted and glued to it's bottom.



A solid spray of khaki (as it appeared in the movie) with a flat black wash on the barrel and sights finished the finishing.

The cable tie-downs were a head-scratching plot hole, since I couldn't figure how they kept it on that fast moving spaceship but hey... it's Hollywood.

I found some thin braided wire in the shop, poked some holes in the bottom of the can and two of the too-big holes became cable-pass-throughs (so what you see tying it down actually holds the gun to the can).

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BONUS: I *think* this might be the actual prop used in the movie.

https://history-making.com/product/german-flak-38-20mm-anti-aircraft-gun-full-automatic-live-firing/

[Buzzbomb]

Dang, picked one of my favourite Sci Fi shows. Now sadly a close second to The Expanse.

Great scene from the movie and like what you have done.

Bit too big to fit on the Stargazer Models 1/288 Firefly Class transport though

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Thanks for the compliment, Buzzy.

FOX really did fumble when they cancelled the series.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/fox-hulu/firefly-show-canceled-fox-streaming-legacy


Here's the cannon in action, ever so briefly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJB6EYR4g4

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Bit too big to fit on the Stargazer Models 1/288 Firefly Class transport though

Good Idea Fairy time!

Acquire four-pack, loot one gun and add to that model (1/285 close enough 1/288)
https://www.ghqmodels.com/products/sdkfz-251-c-17-2cm-flak-38



Beer math off what you don't use to the MicroArmor or CRUEL SEAS folk

https://www.wargaming3d.com/2019/01/16/3d-printing-for-cruel-seas/