Serial posting: more thoughts on black and pink ray guns!

[cupcake_goth]

Thanks to the enabling and encouragement from some of you, not to mention looking at this post in steamfashion, I now want to get a small toy ray gun and modify it. Yes, black with pink details, and make a pink holster for it.

I also want to find a pair of antique-looking goggles to customize to fit in with the pink&black aesthetic, so I can have a Cupcake Gothic Steampunk Lady Explorer outfit. I mean, I've already got the wardrobe (I'd just have to mix & match a couple of pieces). I just need the ray gun and the goggles!

stroppy_baggage has already declared that I need to step away from the ray guns and possibly have a time-out. I think he's just saying that in attempt at self-defense, because he realizes that I would need his help with painting things.

Cupcake Gothic Steampunk! C'mon, you KNOW it would be fabulous.

Comments

[jola.livejournal.com]

GO! GO! GO!

[loree.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they carry them any longer, but I once found a pair of antique-style aviator goggles at Restoration Hardware.

[queeniex.livejournal.com]

i have a blue and pink ray gun that hideousboi sculpted for me :)
it's so cute!
the weta guns are awesome and i got one of the tiny ones at comic con

[master-cobweb.livejournal.com]

I think you are on the verge of inventing a whole new genre: Steamcake. Anachronism for the sweet tooth.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

!!!

That's it! Yes, Steamcake.

(stroppy_baggage has resigned himself to this, and has informed me that if he is going to help me with my pink&black ray gun lunacy, I have to find a toy gun to modify that meets HIS standards. Ah, my perfectionist artist husband. ::grin::)

[master-cobweb.livejournal.com]

Steamcake makes me think of a pink cupcake wearing a gas mask. It makes me giggle.

[kiltlad.livejournal.com]

You can pick up a pair of welding goggles (for gas, not arc or MIG) at any hardware store that would be a perfect start for some steampunk bodgin'. Of course, I know that taking you anywhere near blowtorches or welding gear is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, right?

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

1) Too damn silly!
2) Dead cool!
3) *Swoon*!
4) I must see this when you're done.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_good_kitty/]

the Foglios sell Girl Genius goggles, they're worth a look:
http://studiofoglio.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=STF111&Category_Code=Girl_Genius
the lenses are replaceable, so if you could find some rose-tinted lenses...

and while it looks a little more like a sex toy than like a ray gun, that there is a translucent pink ray gun out there, well:
http://www.bigredtoybox.com/repro/cfa/xodiac_raygun.jpg

also insufficiently retro, but it blows vapor rings!!!:
http://www.zerotoys.com/newsite/products/newzeroblaster.htm

[icarusfell.livejournal.com]

I guess you liked the idea of a pink holster! :)

[acid-poptart.livejournal.com]

I think it's a grand idea! But I"m biased!

I'm sure you've got it under control, but if you need to ask any questions, I'm here for you. ;)

IT is only cool if it actually DOES something

[maiaarts.livejournal.com]

So what is your gun going to do?
Blow pink silly string? Bubbles?
Just light up and go buzz?
Eric and I figured out how to make an ice ray gun for Mr Freeze but we never got around to it.

Make it miniature bubbles!!!! that would be so kewl!!!

[amaliedageek.livejournal.com]

Vapour rings! It needs to shoot vapour rings! And you need rose-tinted lenses for the goggles!

(Don't let stroppy_baggage read this, all right? He has this image of me as dignified, and I'd hate to disillusion him.)

Also, madame, your falconer now has a beard and has grown his hair out.