Ever since watching Han Solo saunter around and pull out his DL44 blaster, I’ve been entranced by the weapons of Star Wars. Those films probably were one of my earliest introductions to firearms, and I just couldn’t get enough,. Before I could get my hands on one of the many toy reproductions, I would use my mom’s picture frame easels as a makeshift blaster (sorry mom).

After learning more about real firearms, I started to see the real life guns that inspired the films. Turns out the new film will be no different. Wired just released 50 images of props used for the Force Awakens and right off the bat I noticed modern day guns built right into the weapons of a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Here’s what I saw.

Space Glock

Right away, you can see a few things. First, the whole blaster is built around some Glock variety, with what looks like a cut up conversion kit for an airsoft gun.

Left: Glock slide conversion, Right: AR-15 gas block

Slapped on top of this kit is the distinct triangle of an AR gas block, normally found on the barrel of an AR-15. Of the props posted, this was my least favorite.

Space Sig

Space Sig on left, Real Sig Sauer on right.

Again, we see what looks like some flavor of Sig Sauer handgun with a modified trigger and extra bits thrown on top. Though I really like the color and general style of this blaster.

Chopped off Space Rifle

This one is easily my favorite. It looks like it caught the wrong end of a lightsaber, or something worse. Again, the paint job is excellent, looking simultaneously futuristic and beat up. I’d be nervous using it though, seeing as how there’s no trigger guard.

Right: Magpul Stock, Left: C-MORE red dot

On the rear of the blaster, you can see a Magpul CTR Carbine stock with a few pieces removed to make it a fixed stock. As well, it looks like there is at least part of a C-MORE red dot in front of the rifle scope.

Captain Phasma’s Rifle

Oh man am I pumped for Captain Phasma. The name was weird at first, but it’s grown on me. And I love Gwendoline Christie in Game of Thrones, so I’m very interested to see what she does wht the role.

This rifle is an obvious outgrowth of the E-11 Blaster, which was itself mostly a Sterling Submachine gun, used at the end of WWII by the British military.

This more recent update includes a nondescript scope and new butt stock. The stock is an ATI AR-15 butt stock, with pretty minor modifications.

Without drawing too much from these few photos, I’m pretty encouraged by the direction the props team took. Hopefully the the rest of the film stands up when if finally comes out in December.

Did I miss anything? What else do you see in these photos?