Ahab's Crosshairs Crude Tutorial

I'm writing this from memory, so I apologize if it's not very good. Also, I made the gun in probably one of the most inconvenient ways you could do it, so it may be better to disregard this entirely.

First off, materials.

* One board, about 2 1/2 inches thick, around 10ish (estimate) inches tall by however long you want the gun

* One thick dowel, about 6 inches longer than you want the harpoon to be

* One functional pellet-gun scope

* A few short, thin dowels

* Two large bolts

* A ton of wood glue

* ALL the acrylic paint

* Finish spray

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Sketch out the shape of the rifle onto the wood. I did this by scaling it up from the picture on the MSPA wiki. It took DAYS to get it how I wanted. You will have to cut off the handle.

2. Cut it out.

3. Sketch out the handle on one of the scraps, cut that out too. Attach trigger dowel with a hole and glue.

4. Drill holes where the handle attaches to the gun body. Use wood glue to glue in dowels, then "plug them in" to matching holes in the handle. Let it dry for a while.

5. Take some of the wood scraps and sketch out the harpoon head. Cut it out and drill in a hole the size of the dowel.

6. Drill a corresponding hole into the gun. Attach everything with wood glue.

7. Drill in the two bolts where you want the scope to attach on top of the gun.

8. Paint everything. This will take forever, TONS of coats.

9. Use superglue to attach scope onto bolts. Let dry.

10. Spray on your finish. Several coats, let dry. Basically read the can, it should have some useful instructions.

AND THAT'S IT!
I hope this was helpful, it feels like it probably wasn't.