

BlasTech DC-15A Blaster Rifle Real Gun: MG34 combined with a scaled-up Sterling L2A3 submachine gun Though the BlasTech DC-15A Blaster Rifle was completely CGI, it was based on parts from two real guns. If it were a modern muzzleloader with a Kentucky Rifle aesthetic, I might find it a bit difficult to not buy. I have to say, the synthetic-stock version actually looks pretty cool. However, the filmmakers retained the Kentucky Rifle’s trigger guard and finger shelf, as well as the ramrod. It’s based on an old-school flintlock Kentucky Rifle with all the wood furniture replaced with synthetic black furniture and the flintlock mechanism replaced with black and silver scope. If you go deep nerd, you’ll find out the rifle was later given a name in the Legends continuity: the KlSteer 1284 projectile rifle.

If you look close, you can find Zam Wesell (Leeanna Walsmann) uses an unnamed projectile rifle. Unidentified Projectile Rifle Real Gun: Kentucky Flintlock Rifle This Unidentified Projectile Rifle is a Kentucky Rifle with the wood furniture replaced. It was then fitted with optics and an under-barrel attachment not dissimilar from the on used on the S-5 blaster below, which was based on a different air gun. Some of the troops on Naboo carry a different unnamed blaster pistol that is based on a resin casting of a Walther LPM-1 Air Gun, according to. Panaka carries the unnamed Naboo Blaster alongside Queen Amidala, who is using a SoroSuub ELG-3A blaster. Here’s a look at the guns behind the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: Since Lucas cobbled together almost all the blasters in the original trilogy from real WWII-era firearms from the UK, and that seemed to work out pretty well, it makes sense he’d do something similar for the far slicker looking prequels, to a degree. For Guns of the Other Star Wars Movies, Go Here.Ĭonsidering about 75 percent of the Star Wars prequel movies were created on a computer, it might be surprising to some to learn that a number of the various blasters of the new worlds created by George Lucas more than a decade after Return of the Jedi hit theaters were based on real firearms and air guns.
