Rusty85
A bit of work done on the grip and also added a pivot point for the trigger, for some reason there was only one pivot support on one side of the shell so the trigger just flopped around, after looking at reference it looked like Rick had an allen screw on his so i added the same and made a support on the unsupported side.
The front grip sat too low because the sliding mech was too thick so i cut the rails off the slider and epoxied them to the grips to eliminate that part altogether. Made a piece of aluminum to hold the grips together at the bottom and reshaped the front of the grip. Also cut a bit off the top of them to make the grips thinner. I still have to add something to the upper edge to ride in the slot but today im waiting on some bondo, super glue and primer to dry properly. I dont think ill need to thicken the grips now since they look more streamlined anyways. I just did a bunch of filler primer to smooth out the rough 3d print surface they had.
This is what they looked like when i started. No finished pics yet but those should come tomorrow when i get more accomplished. Alot of it looks rough but they are already cleaned up since these pics where taken. Shells are starting to look really good.
A bit of work done on the grip and also added a pivot point for the trigger, for some reason there was only one pivot support on one side of the shell so the trigger just flopped around, after looking at reference it looked like Rick had an allen screw on his so i added the same and made a support on the unsupported side.
The front grip sat too low because the sliding mech was too thick so i cut the rails off the slider and epoxied them to the grips to eliminate that part altogether. Made a piece of aluminum to hold the grips together at the bottom and reshaped the front of the grip. Also cut a bit off the top of them to make the grips thinner. I still have to add something to the upper edge to ride in the slot but today im waiting on some bondo, super glue and primer to dry properly. I dont think ill need to thicken the grips now since they look more streamlined anyways. I just did a bunch of filler primer to smooth out the rough 3d print surface they had.
This is what they looked like when i started. No finished pics yet but those should come tomorrow when i get more accomplished. Alot of it looks rough but they are already cleaned up since these pics where taken. Shells are starting to look really good.