Movie Guns: Low Budget Filmmaking Tips
OptimusPrime
16 Jan 2014
We all know that nowadays, airsoft guns are used as gun props in action movies and television shows. As airsoft players, an alternative career can be being action movie directors, a supplier of gun props, and as a technical consultant for such production if you make sure you brush up on your knowledge on real steel and replica firearms.
Here's a tip to provide more realism to the look of the guns for the silver screen from Tom Antos:
In this tutorial I show you how I make my fake plastic toy and airsoft guns look more realistic so I can use them in films. This technique is called weathering. Which makes it look like your guns bluing or protective gun paint got scratched off and is showing the bare metal underneath.