My Star Wars DH-17 Rebel Blaster repaint.

[SimonT]

Hi there.

I'm still a relative newcomer on these boards, haven't posted an awful lot, so thought i'd better post something, rather than just lurk.

Bought one of those Hasbro "Star Wars" DH-17 rebel blasters, that fire Nerf darts the other week and slightly tinkered with it, removing the original plunger handle and sanding off the raised lettering. Then gave it a coat of paint.

I know these have been done before by many others on here (who probably made a better job of it than I did), but here's the pics of my one...



Before...

After...

Before...

After...

A vast improvement I'm sure you'll agree.

 

[Duck9000]

You really did an excellent job! :love Congrats :thumbsup

 

[Snow Builder]

I concur. Very nice job.

 

[oldskool]

Nice one!

Did you just use spray paint for this one?

 

[Badsprout]

Nice work.

 

[SimonT]

Nice one!

Did you just use spray paint for this one?

Firstly, thanks for your comments everyone.

Now to answeer your question, yeah, gave it a coat of matt grey first, masked off the areas I wanted silver, then sprayed it satin black. I then masked off the black areas and sprayed the nozzle, ports and band silver using aluminium car paint.

I've actually got another one, which I intend to gut and transplant the electronics from a Captain Rex blaster into. But that's going to have to wait.

Thanks to some of the previous posts in here I learned how to remove the clear cap off the end of the sight by warming it with a hair dryer to melt the glue so that I could spray inside the sight. I intend to use that same method when it comes to dissassembling the next one.