Star Wars Merr Sonn Power 5 Blaster for 50p

title should probably read Star Wars Merr Sonn Power 5(ish) Blaster for 50p

I decided to have a crack at making Merr Sonn Power 5 Blaster in a day using only a 50p toy gun & various bottle tops & pen lids

basically as something to do whilst my other projects were drying,

as you can imagine this isnt really an exercise in accuracy, it's just for fun

The base gun is probably the cheapest, nastiest least accurate Mauser around really soft, bendy plastic but it was 50p from the local market

Nothing but impressed with your stuff so far, so I'll be looking forward to seeing what you do here.

so using the pictures on the POSW website as a guide (that I couldn't hope to follow) I set about cutting up various bottle tops & pen lids to stick on in a basic approximation.

I decided I wasnt going to (& didnt have time) to change/modify the gun itself so I'd live with the inaccurate shape

in total I used a yellow detergent bottle lid, 2 pen tops, 2 watch batteries, a washer. I used a spout from a funnel & intersurgical connector for the flash hider.

I cut about an inch off the barrel & the flash hider was a perfect fit onto it (lucky)

then I gave it a quick coat of primer.

Looks excellent so far!

love these kind of builds! amazing what you can achieve with a bit of imagination!

awesome work dude

Luckily it was a warm day so the primer dried quickly, I gave it a quick couple of coats of Satin Black & got on with some other things while it dried

Then it was just a case of weathering (the still slightly tacky) blaster & adding the coiled wire.

for this I used a bit of cable/wire from a broken speaker powe plug which was unhelpfully straight I wrapped it around a pen to try & put some coils into it.

Then I just glued it onto the top of the gun, I left the jack on one end.

not that you can tell but I painted the grips a different type of black for contrast

I'm actually quite pleased with the flash hider, I got a load of the green connector parts from work (they were going in the bin) but only had one funnel guess that was all i needed

I gave the whole thing some weathering & it was done,

so there you are a Merr Sonn Power 5(ish) blaster made in a day, probably took about 3hours not including drying time

I know it's not accurate & not anywhere near the league of some of the builders on here, it was just my little attempt at building something out of nothing, well not nothing a rubbish toy mauser

total cost excluding paint ... 50p

Is it accurate No, was it a fun little build for a Sunday afternoon YES

Excellent build, mate. It certainly looks the part. I managed to grab a few of these a couple of years ago and with a few 99p torches and lego bits did the ANH and ESB DL44s as well. Here's the thread:

http://www.therpf.com/f9/cheap-cheer...mauser-100493/

Keep it up!

! This is awesome! I'm doing a similar thing, but I'm splurging

Great Blaster, considering the origins! Thank you for sharing

Looks great!

About 20 years ago I found some desert camo colored broom handles at the local Toys R Us and used them to make some Han blasters. Brings back some memories.

Avolow.

This thread is inspiring.
Who says it has to be screen accurate, anyway? It looks great.