I’m doing an NCR Trooper cosplay and what I’ve noticed is that buying an M16A1 airsoft gun and some brown paint for the furniture is WAYYYYY cheaper than buying a non-functioning prop. Like, the website I saw listed an M1 Carbine Airsoft gun as 250 dollars but the prop version is over 1000. What gives?
Props are low volume specialty products for professionals. Airsoft guns are high volume toys for the mass market.
A theater or film production company can afford expensive quality props, because they are an organization with an orginizarion sized budget. Airsoft guns have to be cost cut and mass produced to a low price point because they sell to normal people with human scale budgets.
Also the brown furniture on the NCR service rifle is wood. Be authentic, learn carpentry.
Lol, I’ve already ordered an M16A1 with faux wooden furniture off of this website, pretty cheap too, only 50 or 60 bucks