Hi all! Another big update. I know this is late but this is the time I finished and I want to get this out tonight since it's in my head:
Everyone with kits from should have a message about shipping, they're all boxed and ready to go. They're fully tested and you can try them when you get them (careful you separate everything so you don't short anything!!!) They come bubble wrapped and in a watertight container, so good to go. At this point I've sunk enough in that I don't really mind going a bit further, but I do have an OPTIONAL ask in return that's attached to the message. You're getting everything here in your package:
1. Lens
2. Cut steel and brass rods
3. Unfinished resin front and rear sights as well as serial plate
4. Magazine plates (this is a mercy, these were crazy hard to make by hand)
5. Aluminum knob
6. Springs and buck converter shrink wrap
7. Battery and charger
If you're used to these kinds of electronics, it's all ready to install except for soldering the switch on the heel, which has to be done after you paint the heel (read down, link later with pics). If you're not, please wait for the video. It will be very detailed and step by step. They're all ready to ship, I haven't wrapped yours yet
veektohr because I wasn't expecting to make an unsoldered kit so there was a fair amount of spreadsheeting and number crunching to make sure you get every bit and bob and the right lengths of wire etc, my brain is a bit fried so I want to check tomorrow.
I know it's been a bit but I wanted to make sure it's all final first, that way there's no 0 day update needed on your end, and that includes the promised audio update. So a little more research was required:
Despite the grumphing about the glasses that did this tech in, I still like 3D TV and I've still got one, so I can watch the movie the way it's intended.
There's a lot of thumping music in the movie so extracting clean audio wasn't the easiest. I used a lot of splicing and frequency removal but I'm pretty happy with the results. It's all published to github so if you're building your own it's ready to roll. This also includes some final code tweaks from
Spidey74 so as far as this project is concerned the code/aduio side is final as of today (famous last words I know).
In terms of deliveries, I have a confession. I did sand it all again. I'm not getting shown up.
I gave the next two up last one final coat of primer after yet ANOTHER sanding pass and... ummm, dropped one in the grass. Only damage was my pride, no worries, but back into sanding it went with the next set of frames, so you get one bonus sanding/finishing pass. It was either that or bonus forest camo..
The other one is drying for final inspection, once the paint is set it'll be done in a few days, the other is 1 day behind.
I did get ahead and get the next few done this weekend as well, I'm going to try and stack the deliveries closer:
All other parts are primed and ready for final paint, all we're waiting on here is the frames, there's so many nooks and crannies I'm going at them with small picks and stamp making chisels. It's a slow process but worth the final result.
Now I'm this far along I want to start the videos, I've messaged one person to ask if I can do theirs as the video one. There's people building their own and I really want to get the vids done to help them along, and for all of you in the run I would really like to get some 'how to's on care and handing so nobody damages theirs taking a peak under the hood.
So I've added one of the slightly different trigger guards into the mix, I can't film anything without a working demo at the start. That way I can show that one at the start as a demo and make the video on the other one for the step-by-step. I actually had 3 of these frames as the first 3 in the run (run was started before the change) but pulled them out of it because
BeakZ and
Spidey74 started after and were all doing the straight version so I didn't want to cause any headaches on a 'who gets what'.
I personally don't care about the tiny frame difference and I'm keeping one of these angled trigger guard versions as my own, so I've pushed one forward since it's so close to done I can use it for the videos and demos very quickly. I'm realizing that if I get the whole run done AND THEN start again on another for the tutorials I won't have any videos done for quite a while, and that's no fun...
In the mean time, I photographed every step of
Knightmare 's build and posted it here at the bottom of the page:
GitHub - Props3D/dredd-lawgiver
I know this is crude, but it's enough to get going for some people and covers how the heel is supposed to look for those doing kits. I will add to this with the next build and the videos ARE coming.
Haha, I was going to go on but I scrolled up. I'm going to cut this here and post another update tomorrow.
