I seem to be stuck toying with the shroud for my Hoth rifle. Maybe you guys can weigh in?
One thing that has always bugged me about this is the "broken" part under the front on the right. Every single original blaster I've seen has something going on up there. There's a notched out/broken bit under the protruding front cylinder, and there's some kind of long greeblie above it that looks to have multiple small domes or something on it. This is the part that leads me to believe that it was pieced together from some found parts. To me it looks very much like a hollow molded part that doesn't come together for whatever reason. Surely I'm not the only one to agonize over this? I haven't seen anyone try to replicate it.
Here's my current take on it (not at all satisfied though). I matched the break/whatever as best I could, and for the greeblie I've tried a lot of things. To my knowledge the ONLY model kits used for greeblies on ESB blasters are the Visible V8 and the 1/32 Phantom. I didn't find anything that looked the part on the sprues, so decided for now to "chop up" some other known greeblies. So I have a reshaped 4 bump greeblie from the Bespin Relby, and a piece of an unknown greeblie shared by the Relby and the DL-21. Meh. What do you guys think? I'm pondering putting some cylindrical V8 parts inside of the opening, though I suspect that it's just torn up RTV rubber down there.
One thing that has always bugged me about this is the "broken" part under the front on the right. Every single original blaster I've seen has something going on up there. There's a notched out/broken bit under the protruding front cylinder, and there's some kind of long greeblie above it that looks to have multiple small domes or something on it. This is the part that leads me to believe that it was pieced together from some found parts. To me it looks very much like a hollow molded part that doesn't come together for whatever reason. Surely I'm not the only one to agonize over this? I haven't seen anyone try to replicate it.
Here's my current take on it (not at all satisfied though). I matched the break/whatever as best I could, and for the greeblie I've tried a lot of things. To my knowledge the ONLY model kits used for greeblies on ESB blasters are the Visible V8 and the 1/32 Phantom. I didn't find anything that looked the part on the sprues, so decided for now to "chop up" some other known greeblies. So I have a reshaped 4 bump greeblie from the Bespin Relby, and a piece of an unknown greeblie shared by the Relby and the DL-21. Meh. What do you guys think? I'm pondering putting some cylindrical V8 parts inside of the opening, though I suspect that it's just torn up RTV rubber down there.