Yes. To me it looks very dull silver on Hoth and it gets worse over time. I mean, that whole thing with the exhibit got a little messy, the RPF treated him badly and he was looking for like 20 different details at once, something that was two different colors, behind glass, could have been surface color or separate pieces. Looking at the rest of the reference tells a different story over time. I'm not of the opinion the hex nuts are cosmetic, they have a stem in them and make much more sense to me as structural components they didn't think anyone would see filming outsidethd9791 ya these blasters are like onions.. many layers to be pealed for sure! Is it possible the hex nuts on the greeblies are simply cosmetic? Also are you saying that you think the spacer is “bronze” simply because of a discoloration from glue possibly and the front is it’s original color of silver metal? Not trying to put words into your mouth., just trying to see if I understand u correctly?
One thing that keeps me coming back to what Mortifactor said (and saw) was he had no objective outside of simply reporting honestly. He was also very close to it as well so it’s hard to believe he possibly misunderstood what he was looking at?? I asked him once if it was possible that he made a mistake and if I remember correctly he said something along the lines of.. it was awhile ago but if that’s what I wrote then that’s what I saw.. kind of thing.
I guess it’s mostly just speciation at this point. ?
It's in some of the ESB thread. People were NOT happy that the plate on the bracket was not a thorens thrust plate, and very outwardly challenged him, brushed off his gifts to us and bickered so much that mortifactor was like.... look, i'm not even building this blaster I just thought it would help.He was treated badly? That’s awful. I didn’t know that part.
Yes go right ahead! I got machining help and tips from scottjua, so this is just a theory that I didn't come up with, but a good one. Also, the real nuts are TINY, so shrink them and your disc screw heads too. I think my nuts are M3 or something like thatthd9791 You know I’m more of a cosmetic builder but will always try to make it as accurate (subjective obviously) as possible to the prop itself in its design. I’ve been looking at how this would work. It makes sense what ur doing and I’m going to rework my deign to see if I can incorporate what you did here. Would that be ok?
Here is what I did originally. You can see how I attached it..View attachment 1560492
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But I want to see if I can create a template to get both sides lined up and attached similar to what you showed. The outside should look the exact same but the assembly will tie everything together as u just showed..View attachment 1560495
I went to find my old really ham-fisted photoshop comparisons. With this gun, the lack of reference meant I got better results comparing things within the same picture rather than measuring. The bracket I think we're all sure is 3mm aluminum, or 1/8 generally.Let this new screw design adventure begin!
A new drilling template would be a great outcome from this 3D modeling exercise. I have a feeling that the long bolts are not perfectly perpendicular through the receiver. What I mean is that there might be some slight bending/angle of the bolts going on through the magwell to the other side.
Ur probably 100% right but the truth is from pictures it will be almost impossible to actually figure that out. So what I’m planing on doing is going straight across the body itself. If it’s a conclusive conclusion that they should infact be off set it won’t be to hard to change in all honesty..
Thanks for the suggestions, you‘ve earned an editor credit.I've noticed in the ROTJ section on the front page it says that the pistons are from the V8 kit, but on all 4 known rotj blasters the pistons are custom machined lookalikes and little different from each other. On 2 are held with screws, on one had rivets and on the stembridge they were just glued, didn't even had holes drilled. The MGC that is missing the front half of the scope I think was also missing the safety switch(?). Of course this is not new information and is visible also on the pictures posted here already, but maybe you can update the post so people don't get confused.