MADE ON EARTH
Report from the world of backyard technology
Raygun Reverie
Photography by Paul Loughridge; photograph far right by Cindy Loughridge
“You know, guys never really grow up,” says Paul Loughridge. His hand-built, retro raygun models have the authentic menace of Star Wars and the wacky form factor of Men in Black. But their mid-century, all-metal look is straight out of his childhood favorites: Flash Gordon, Amazing Stories, Lost in Space.
Collectors think he’s on to something. His work has a satisfying heft from a time before plastics ...
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