DT-12 Greedo Blaster Build

[TatooineMachine]

Painted Imperial Discs

Re-assembled the rest of the pistol, who knew it works!

This lasted about 26 hours until the cap fell off.....looked good while it was in place

Shapeways parts arrived

Printed steel bull barrel was pretty grainy

Sanded one of the knurled cones. It sanded very easily and will look great when painted and weathered. Pretty happy with these prints!

An hour and a half sanding the pistol barrel and the bull barrel and 2 blisters later

Washed it up and blued it about 5 separate times

New rear sight after some sanding

Blued BB and Reade cylinder looks pretty good

Blued rear parts...not sure what these are called

Brass barrel

Grips mounted

It's moving the right direction!

 

[russellsch]

This is a really fascinating blaster. I had no idea of everything that was on it.
Great build man!

 

[TatooineMachine]

Print vs. sanded for the cones

Printed sight looked too small so I made one out of aluminum tube and Dark Energy DL-44 sight parts

Cut apart the print for the mount

Looks pretty good - need to figure a way to align it during gluing

PL-259 connectors glued

Not a bad morning for being up all night with food poisoning

 

[TatooineMachine]

Pontoon primed

Pl-259's painted

Sight and cap painted and on

 

[Halliwax]

Wicked progress!! Do you have a link to all the shapeways parts you ordered?

 

[TatooineMachine]

Wicked progress!! Do you have a link to all the shapeways parts you ordered?

Danny the guy is a member here, Toolguy. Shapeways he’s CBS Props, under DT-12

 

[Halliwax]

Danny the guy is a member here, Toolguy. Shapeways he’s CBS Props, under DT-12

Thank you very much! I’m loving this thread. I’m not ready to start gather parts but just taking notes now on where to go when the time comes

Really appreciate this! Loving this build

 

[russellsch]

Food poisoning!?! What the heck? & yet you STILL get amazing build work done? YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!!!

 

[Halliwax]

Food poisoning is a terrible thing... haven’t had that in a long time, but the last wasn’t fun

Stay hydrated , get well soon !!

 

[TatooineMachine]

It wasn’t so bad, but thank you I’m fine now! Just had to stay close to home so I thought I might as well get some stuff done! Maybe I’ll get more done today? Thanks again for the nice comments guys!

 

[TatooineMachine]

Can't help myself! For whatever reason the clip wouldn't fit after I re-assembled the pistol, so I took it apart and cut it down so it would "clip" in. Feels better with the weight too!

Modded the sight mount to fit better & epoxied

Got the tone arm pieces opened up to fit the Fett shin tools inside and epoxied the cones on

Mocked this up with Imperial discs and missiles - the backside of the missiles will need to be filed down so they sit flat against the pistol and have less chance of falling off. I may try and utilize the screw holes and attached them with an allen stud. I think I'm also going to use a Forstner bit and slightly recess the walnut grips for the Imperial discs so they are flat on the grips also. Just my thoughts to attempt to keep this blaster together. Nothing worse than picking up a prop and things fall off of it!

LOL, I forgot the picture

 

[TatooineMachine]

Finished the sight.....

Hope to have time to paint the accessories tomorrow

 

[russellsch]

Is this blood?

Are putting both blood & toil into this build?
It's looking good my friend

 

[TatooineMachine]

Is this blood?

LOL, no blood Russ! Just Spot Putty....I did however get some pretty good blisters from sanding the steel printed barrel! Hope to wrap this up soon!

 

[Frenzy1971]

Amazing build!

 

[sbeall]

Looking good!
Out of curiosity, how long did you make the tube in your sight greeblie? I cut mine last night and estimated 1.5 inches. (Still waiting for additional pushrods to arrive, but I have stand-ins.)

 

[Halliwax]

this is awesome, so many little pieces to this blaster though!

 

[TatooineMachine]

Repainted the pistol after the "build scars"

Back to assembled

Forstnered the grips didn't go as well as I'd hoped, the bit "walked" a little. Oh well, the Imperial discs are flat

Missiles, sight, and pontoon are painted. Hopefully assembly tomorrow!

 

[CatfoodRob]

I'm incredibly impressed that you thickened the trigger guard...SO many builders don't do this , and it really defines the greedo blaster .
Are you attempting the " missing square greeblie scar " on the left side ??
Loving this build by the way .

 

[TatooineMachine]

Missing square greeblie scar?