After several months of biting nails and all but giving up on it, I finally got a fresh blaster kit from Japan. It's a lot like the old Sidkits, only built from the ground up to have all the features of the Worldcon. When the Tomenosuke guys went to look at the hero during the auction, they took several comparison shots, and their parts were almost dead-on. It's all metal excepting the Bulldog receiver and hammer, and the bits that should be plastic anyway (for the record, the side panels are a white metal on the original).
All the reference material from Karl's Worldcon photos, plus the new material from the recent PiH was a huge help.
I've spent the better part of three days working on it. The Steyr receiver was a pain the ass. I used Mother's, then a wire brush, then blued the lettering and other indentations, sanded with 400 on up through steel wool, and then reblued it two days in a row to get it even. I agree with whomever said that a cop wouldn't let their weapon get rusty, regardless of the rain, so I left it blued.
For those not familiar, the original had white wires running down the side that were covered in electric tape during most of filming, until at some point they were cut. the PiH auction actually included the old, unattached bit of electric tape from the Hero blaster. :lol
The kit has a spring-loaded front trigger and the back trigger works the hammer. Overall, it's a well engineered kit. A few of the individual pieces are flimsy when separate (both my outer gripframe and Steyr reciever were severely bent) but they're interlocking and hold together well. it's going in a glass case, to be sure.
Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7445482@N04/sets/72157618597595915/
All the reference material from Karl's Worldcon photos, plus the new material from the recent PiH was a huge help.
I've spent the better part of three days working on it. The Steyr receiver was a pain the ass. I used Mother's, then a wire brush, then blued the lettering and other indentations, sanded with 400 on up through steel wool, and then reblued it two days in a row to get it even. I agree with whomever said that a cop wouldn't let their weapon get rusty, regardless of the rain, so I left it blued.
For those not familiar, the original had white wires running down the side that were covered in electric tape during most of filming, until at some point they were cut. the PiH auction actually included the old, unattached bit of electric tape from the Hero blaster. :lol
The kit has a spring-loaded front trigger and the back trigger works the hammer. Overall, it's a well engineered kit. A few of the individual pieces are flimsy when separate (both my outer gripframe and Steyr reciever were severely bent) but they're interlocking and hold together well. it's going in a glass case, to be sure.
Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7445482@N04/sets/72157618597595915/
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