Now for the rest of the parts all it took was a little reverse engineering, sprinkled with some creativity. This was another fun little CAD exercise to tackle..
As mentioned I already had the actual Reads parts on hand and on a previous build (ANH Hero) I already reverse engineered the Motor greeblie itself in full so..
..with this CAD file I simply cut it a little beyond half and added a design inside so it would press fit onto the denix itself. This came out and works just as I hoped..
For the mystery T-track that the antenna greeblies rest up against (which is still very much subjective) it was recently discussed in this post here as to what it could maybe look like. The thought is I believe that it’s possibility the same or a similar part that was used on Greedo’s blaster (NOT the Greedo Killer FYI). This (pic below) is obviously my interpretation of what was being discussed and how it came out..
For the CB cord I didn’t want to glue it or drill into the back of the denix itself so I created this design to hold it in place. The CB cord itself you can get off Amazon. This is the one I used (I also bought a phone cord at the same time and it’s works in a pinch as well). But this looks the parts and works perfectly..
This is the part that was created to hold the cable and as you can see it came out pretty good..
And there you have it. This is how I personally brought my Merr-Sonn into a realty. Obviously it’s not a magic trick and there is a lot of people that go unthanked who played a role without even knowing it. It’s generous posts like this one that allows others to throw their hat into the ring to begin with.
So thank you!
However you choose to go about bringing your vision into a reality, make no mistake.. THIS IS THE WAY!
As mentioned I already had the actual Reads parts on hand and on a previous build (ANH Hero) I already reverse engineered the Motor greeblie itself in full so..
..with this CAD file I simply cut it a little beyond half and added a design inside so it would press fit onto the denix itself. This came out and works just as I hoped..
For the mystery T-track that the antenna greeblies rest up against (which is still very much subjective) it was recently discussed in this post here as to what it could maybe look like. The thought is I believe that it’s possibility the same or a similar part that was used on Greedo’s blaster (NOT the Greedo Killer FYI). This (pic below) is obviously my interpretation of what was being discussed and how it came out..
For the CB cord I didn’t want to glue it or drill into the back of the denix itself so I created this design to hold it in place. The CB cord itself you can get off Amazon. This is the one I used (I also bought a phone cord at the same time and it’s works in a pinch as well). But this looks the parts and works perfectly..
This is the part that was created to hold the cable and as you can see it came out pretty good..
And there you have it. This is how I personally brought my Merr-Sonn into a realty. Obviously it’s not a magic trick and there is a lot of people that go unthanked who played a role without even knowing it. It’s generous posts like this one that allows others to throw their hat into the ring to begin with.
So thank you!
However you choose to go about bringing your vision into a reality, make no mistake.. THIS IS THE WAY!
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