I’ve given myself a challenge !!!
on the 8th of May I will be 50 !!! Oh boy on the 12th of May my beautiful wife is throwing a SY-FY birthday party for me, she has bought me a .... ( cheap crappy storm trooper costume ) just for fun and far from accurate, so I thought I would dress it up ( ish ) as cheap as possible with an E11 blaster.
So here we go.
Day one, template down loaded,
With being a plumber I had some 1.1/2 inch waste pipe to hand (ABS solvent weld pipe) the type you glue all the joints together
I did a test cut and glued it back together as the OD was 42 mm and I wanted it as close to 38mm as possible
Knowing I could achieve the size I wanted I cut a 600mm length down one edge, I then glued the edge up and cable tied it back together
The glue goes off In minutes and totally hard for sanding in about 4 hours
once the glue had hardened I gave it a good sanding down, as you can see, hardly a seam noticeable
left pipe recut, right pipe as it was
Template down loaded and placed oround the pipe
I drilled all the holes and cut out all that needed to be cut out, I also cut, shaped and added the flash guard to the front and guard to the cartridge ejection point, the excess glue will be sanded away later
I thought I would try the T track to see how it’s looking
Ive also done some drawings on autocad for the muzzle pieces, hopefully they should be back tomorrow but I’m not holding my breath as my laser cousin can sometimes let me down.
So that’s where I’m at after day one more hopefully tomorrow
its time consuming looking for files and details and so on, if anybody has any info and willing to share, it would be greatly appreciated, it would also speed my time up on this build.
Question .... I’ve never painted ABS plastic before and after I’ve given it a sanding down it feels.... well I can only explain it as feeling oily !! I know its not oily, it’s dry as a bone but it’s just the feel of it, is there anything special I need to prime it with ?
thanks in advance and thanks for looking and reading
on the 8th of May I will be 50 !!! Oh boy on the 12th of May my beautiful wife is throwing a SY-FY birthday party for me, she has bought me a .... ( cheap crappy storm trooper costume ) just for fun and far from accurate, so I thought I would dress it up ( ish ) as cheap as possible with an E11 blaster.
So here we go.
Day one, template down loaded,
With being a plumber I had some 1.1/2 inch waste pipe to hand (ABS solvent weld pipe) the type you glue all the joints together
I did a test cut and glued it back together as the OD was 42 mm and I wanted it as close to 38mm as possible
Knowing I could achieve the size I wanted I cut a 600mm length down one edge, I then glued the edge up and cable tied it back together
The glue goes off In minutes and totally hard for sanding in about 4 hours
once the glue had hardened I gave it a good sanding down, as you can see, hardly a seam noticeable
left pipe recut, right pipe as it was
Template down loaded and placed oround the pipe
I drilled all the holes and cut out all that needed to be cut out, I also cut, shaped and added the flash guard to the front and guard to the cartridge ejection point, the excess glue will be sanded away later
I thought I would try the T track to see how it’s looking
Ive also done some drawings on autocad for the muzzle pieces, hopefully they should be back tomorrow but I’m not holding my breath as my laser cousin can sometimes let me down.
So that’s where I’m at after day one more hopefully tomorrow
its time consuming looking for files and details and so on, if anybody has any info and willing to share, it would be greatly appreciated, it would also speed my time up on this build.
Question .... I’ve never painted ABS plastic before and after I’ve given it a sanding down it feels.... well I can only explain it as feeling oily !! I know its not oily, it’s dry as a bone but it’s just the feel of it, is there anything special I need to prime it with ?
thanks in advance and thanks for looking and reading
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