I don’t know Harrion Krix personally but he’s a huge fan of video games and one hell of a home parts builder kind of a guy.  His most recent project was building an exact replica of the Mass Effect M8 Avenger Assault Rifle.  Here’s what he had to say:

I’ve been a huge Mass Effect fan for a while now, and with the release of the second game I knew I wanted to take a crack at building some of the weaponry from the ME universe. As a bit of a personal challenge to myself, I decided to construct this gun from as much of my existing materials as possible. That is to say, 95% of what you see here is scrap I had in my shop from other builds. In the end, the entire piece only cost me $28 in raw materials.

Pretty awesome that it only cost 28 bucks to make.  We shortened the picture load after the jump to show the before, during and after.  For a full account you can visit Harrison’s site…..