Ebeneezer Scrooge awoke from his terrible dream and ran to the window.
Throwing it open and squinting against the light, he spotted a young boy standing in the street below.
"You! child! tell me, what day is it!?!" he inquired, hopeful it wasn't too late to right his wrongs....
"who, me sir?" inquired the boy, "Yes, YES! you, dear child! what day is this?", he pleaded.
"why, it's september 2nd!" answered the boy.
"SHIT!" bellowed Ebeneezer, "I missed the GODDAMN CONTEST!!!!"
he reached over to his desk and picked up his half finished steampunk pulse cannon and turned back to the boy.
"hey you little punk, choke on this!!" and with a strength he hadn't show for years, he flung the rifle and struck the boy senseless! he dropped like a rock!
and as the poor lad tried to stagger back to his feet, blood gushing from the gash to his forehead, Ebeneezer added "maybe if you pawn that piece of crap, you can get your mama off her back and out of the bordello for a day or two!!" then with a grunt and a scowl, he slammed the shutters closed.
"WTF!" wondered the child, as he started to stagger away, still stunned by the impact. he suddenly stopped and looked down at the blaster in his bloodied hands, and screamed back over his shoulder, "YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DRYBRUSH!!!!!"


man, voting was just as hard as ever! three votes isnt even enough!

ROTGLMAO

Dap that was one of the funnier things I have seen posted any where in a while. You should really write up the whole story. Ok now to the days of diliberation on which I vote on.

QFT +1

That was pretty funny dap. I haven't laughed that much since the So I was just on Ebay thread over on the RPF.

every morning i check the site then again when i come home from work,love it,even more since competition and the poll

Looks like this year's contest is done!

We had a great batch of entries this year, and I'd like to thank all of the entrants for their time and effort--Kudos and congratulations!

2008 BBC/KAPOWWE BLASTER CONTEST FINAL RESULTS
Entry 5 [ 34 ] built by dartharnold
Entry 8 [33 ] built by pulseriflefan
Entry 17 [ 16 ] built by TKDUEUNO
Entry 16 [ 14 ] built by thedap
Entry 15 [ 12 ] built by Aestivalis
Entry 13 [10 ] built by Noeland
Entry 6 [ 9 ] built by Menehune Jedi
Entry 14 [ 9 ] built by jackdoud
Entry 3 [ 6 ] built by DudleyWigley
Entry 12 [ 5 ] built by Noeland
Entry 18 [ 5 ] built by Menehune Jedi
Entry 4 [ 4 ] built by DudleyWigley
Entry 11 [ 4 ] built by WEM
Entry 2 [ 3 ] built by glim999
Entry 9 [ 1 ] built by Klowd_13
Entry 10 [ 1 ] built by Z-man12
Entry 1 [ 0 ] built by jackdoud
Entry 7 [ 0 ] built by just me (no one else)

Total votes cast : 166



I'll start contacting folks about choosing their prizes, so keep and eye out for a PM from this board

Now that the contest is over, let's hear your war stories about building those cool blasters!

Well, 5th place 2 years in a row is alright I guess. My "Buccaneer" was actually inspired by thedap's pirate blaster from the following thread;

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=221&hilit=changed+my

I had a musket pistol replica leftover from another project I did a few years ago, and a spare Marco blaster muzzel from the 80's, so together they went. I had intended on making a full scratch PVC blaster, but since it was "toy-based" only... well, you know the rest. I wonder what will be left when the prize fairy gets around to me...? Thanks all who voted for me. I actually liked #8, #16, and #13 for my votes. I especially like how #8 utilized the rear slide as part of the re-designed grip; very nice. Also, about #2, was that supposed to be a Tyranid-inspired gun? (from WH40K). Very effective for what it was.

Congrats to everyone... fantastic blasters as always!

woot! great contest everyone!

voting was even harder than last time, three choices didn't make it any easier.

Z-man, I liked your gun! where did you get the base gun? my third vote was between your gun and #2. that #2 was so outa left field I really like it.

hey Z, maybe if you painted your drum gun like dudley did that concept blaster, thats one awesome paintjob! I gotta give painting my stuff like that a try!

I got lucky on my gun, the wood grip wasn't coming out very well, but the paint job made the rest of the gun really pop out good. it was looking pretty grim until I did the brass.