If you've ever wanted to make guns for your LEGO minifigs, you know how frustrating it can sometimes be. Trying to find the right pieces to make a gun for your cowboy, outer-space or underwater minifig can be a challenge, especially if you have only a limited number of pieces. With some simple tips and strategies, though, you can easily make fun, simple LEGO minifig guns that will help spice up your LEGO playtime.
Designs Based on Real Guns
When trying to make a minifig gun that is based on the design of a real gun, you should take the design of the real gun and make it as abstract as possible. It will be difficult to recreate all of the details of the real gun in miniature form, so focus on the key details that make the gun unique, such as the shape, magazine size, stock, grip or other features. Remember that you'll need at least one location on the gun that will be able to fit in the LEGO minifig's hand, so take that into account when you are designing your gun. Lego pieces such as binoculars, hand grips and tools can all form parts of minifig guns, and are easily integrated with each other.
Custom Designs
Custom-designed LEGO minifig guns may be easier to create, since you do not have to try and replicate the shape of an actual weapon while doing the designing. Use your imagination when designing a custom LEGO minifig gun, and utilize whatever pieces you see fit. Custom weapons can be one-handed or two-handed, depending on what style you prefer, and if you purchase LEGO sets that are from a theme you want to design a gun for (such as underwater, scifi, pirate) then you will be able to combine pieces from those sets to form new and interesting guns that have the same look and feel as that particular theme. If, while searching for pieces to make a LEGO minifig gun, you see ones that you think might be useful, set them aside, even if you don't use them right then. Having a pile of interesting pieces can give you new ideas and insight into creating new and unique minifig guns.
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