Hi there everyone,
As a bit of a break from Death Star tiles, and to help out a friend who is building some clone armour, I offered that I would have a go at making a clone blaster last summer.
I have finally got around to painting a casting and thought you might like to have a look. :O)
Although my friend will use it for 'trooping' eventually, I was more interested in getting a more accurate replica of the movie 'prop'.
The trickiest part really was making a decision on the overall dimensions and as far as I was aware there is no definative documentation of how big it is supposed to be. This led me to making some assumptions. The first thing I did was to scale some of the promo shots to the given height of Temuera Morrison (assuming he was wearing clone armour) and work out the length of the gun from that. It was HUGE.
I then cross referenced it with some of the dimensions from a Sterling, most noticably the barrel diameter and folding stock width, and found that both these dimensions were a ratio of each other.
One thing I wished I'd done in hind-sight was to find out the dimensions of an mg34 receiver, as this is obviously an inspiration.
In the end I went with the sterling dimensions which, although I do think make the blaster potentially too small, still leave you with a hand grip that is uncomfortably large !!!!! That's the problem with CG designed props!
Anyway hope you like it.
First the cast resin components (sorry forgot to include the front 'sights')
Finally painted!
It's quite a bit more weathered than I originally planned but I just liked the look of it so much!!!!
please feel free to leave comments
minifig
As a bit of a break from Death Star tiles, and to help out a friend who is building some clone armour, I offered that I would have a go at making a clone blaster last summer.
I have finally got around to painting a casting and thought you might like to have a look. :O)
Although my friend will use it for 'trooping' eventually, I was more interested in getting a more accurate replica of the movie 'prop'.
The trickiest part really was making a decision on the overall dimensions and as far as I was aware there is no definative documentation of how big it is supposed to be. This led me to making some assumptions. The first thing I did was to scale some of the promo shots to the given height of Temuera Morrison (assuming he was wearing clone armour) and work out the length of the gun from that. It was HUGE.
I then cross referenced it with some of the dimensions from a Sterling, most noticably the barrel diameter and folding stock width, and found that both these dimensions were a ratio of each other.
One thing I wished I'd done in hind-sight was to find out the dimensions of an mg34 receiver, as this is obviously an inspiration.
In the end I went with the sterling dimensions which, although I do think make the blaster potentially too small, still leave you with a hand grip that is uncomfortably large !!!!! That's the problem with CG designed props!
Anyway hope you like it.
First the cast resin components (sorry forgot to include the front 'sights')
Finally painted!
It's quite a bit more weathered than I originally planned but I just liked the look of it so much!!!!
please feel free to leave comments
minifig
Great work.
