My Star Wars Prop builds

[Stormy320]

Looks
So good

Bet it ways a ton.

 

[Rufus72]

Thank you.
Of course the blasters are not build for a long trooping day

The heaviest one is the ANH, it‘s about 3,9 KG, the others are between 3,3 and 3,4 KG.

 

[Rufus72]

And now the third one, the ROTJ version.

I know it‘s originally based on the MGC Sterling, but I still wasn‘t able to find one. Two times I had the opportunity, but it was way too expensive at that time.

So I decided to use another regular Sterling. I converted it to match the MGC and made a new bolt, which is still working, similar to the MGC one.

All additional parts are completely made by myself. Like my other blasters I want to have it as much as possible made from metal.

 

[Leopoldthegreat]

Hello to everyone. My name is Ralf and I'm new on the RPF. I'm making props and models for quite a while and want to show some of my works.

Please tell me what you think. If you're interested I'll post some wip pictures.

My most time I spent on the DL-44 and E-11 blasters but there are some more things I liked and like to do.

Great job on everything, what items did you use for that Death star security camera, was it a kit or something, would love to build one

 

[Rufus72]

Thank you very much.

For the Detention Center camera I managed to get six original Patterson slide viewers. All the additional parts an greeblies are made by myself. I made the mounting from aluminium tube.

I‘ll post detailed photos next time, so stay tuned ;-)

 

[Rufus72]

Here‘s my Detention Center camera.

The back of the camera is not screen accurate, but I found the the simple black block of the original really boring. I used a leftover part of a Sandtrooper backpack And constructed a, how I think, a much more interesting back of the camera.

 

[Rufus72]

Now to the next one. I always liked the DL-44 Dagobah-Blaster, it‘s a nice hybrid of the ANH hero and the ESB blaster.

All parts of the blaster are completely made by myself and I put a lot of time into the conversion of the Denix base gun. I even replicated the V8-kit parts in metal, I really like to have a full metal blaster.

There‘s only one part in resin, the main body of the M19, I did all added parts of the scope in brass.

 

[Lichtbringer]

I havn´t been such impressed here for a very long time. Having the parts bought and assembled and make them look right is easy, especially with all real parts - but some of your selfmade parts are way behind pure dedication to the hobby.

 

[Rufus72]

Thank you very much, for me its a great fun building and machining this parts.

 

[Rufus72]

Next on the list is my ANH DL-44.

here I also used a Denix gun as a base. I heavily modified it, including a real Mauser mag plate. I used the complete parts offered by Todd‘s costumes, I wanted these nice steel parts. The grill is one of DEC‘s really nice metal casts.

I also managed to grab a pair of original Mauser wood grips. It took some time to fit them on the Denix.

 

[rASPONOV]

These props look awesome! What's the general cost for building one? and where are you from? would love ot commission you sometime for something, if the circumstances allow

 

[Aditrap]

Amazing work, I love those deconstructed shots you shared.

 

[Rufus72]

Thank you very much, guys.

The next project I want to show is my Merr Sonn blaster. I didn‘t have a lot of reference pics and some of the greeblies are missing on the original prop, so some interpretation was needed to create the missing parts.

As always, I try to realize all greeblies in metal, so I made the audio plug housing from aluminium. The flash hider, antenna greeblies and T-track are leftover parts from DEC and I used Reade Models grills for it. All the rest is selfmade.

Here‘s my version of the Merr Sonn.

 

[Rufus72]

Now I want to share a little fun project: the bad motivator of R5-D4.

I found the base part as a resin kit a while ago and thought it would be a cool idea to make a kind of display of it.

The whole thing is made from polystyrene sheets. I buildt a section of R5‘s head with the little open hatch of the motivator (I know, the thing flew away but I liked To make the detail of the inner hatch and the hinge. The base construction is dressed up the leftover parts from the revell V8 engine kit and a bunch of old electronic parts and wires. I also added a red led and a small smoke generator.

Hope you like this little thing, too.

 

[Rufus72]

I wanted to add a little video of the smoking motivator, but it was not possible to upload it. Does anyone know how I can do that? Thanks in advance.

 

[coolhanluked]

I love it! It looks great brother.

 

[Rufus72]

Here‘s my build of Han‘s ESB DL-44 Blaster. I made a hybrid of the Hoth and Bespin version, that‘s how I like it best.

“As usual“, I did all greeblies in metal. The M19-scope is from DEC, the flashhider is from Fieldmarshall.

I tried to replicate the V8-Kit parts as good as possible.

 

[Rufus72]

More parts and the blaster

 

[Rufus72]

Now I want to show another resin kit build. The Endor Rebel proton grenade. I replaced the activation knob and two other parts with aluminium ones I made and added a pair of real denode parts. The activation knob is functional an switches on two red led lights.

The foot plate of the grenade contains four magnets, so I decided to make an acrylic display plate with an angled position.

 

[3DImpact]

Love the grenade - very nice work!

Dan