So was the MR Fett Blaster Any Good?
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Sidewinder
Sr Member
Paintjob was crap (inaccurate/simplified) apparently
Nope
Think they were plastic
Yes, but would be a task
SAS
Nope
Think they were plastic
Yes, but would be a task
SAS
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MikeyX
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I don't own one, but have seen my friends version in person. Overall I was not impressed - the weathered paint job is not really up to scratch IMHO. From a distance in the display case it looks fine, but get anywhere close and it looks very toy-like.
Still all that said my friend likes his - and I know others that like it too, so it can't be all bad.
Still all that said my friend likes his - and I know others that like it too, so it can't be all bad.
SingleSeat
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Best barrel ever made, no fan has held a candle to it thusfar (that I know of). The rest can be scrapped if you're a purist. In need of serious paint attention since the real prop is practically 3D in paint and weathering. If you're just looking for a rough representation, it's pretty pricey for that, but if you plan on working it up to a pure replica standard, it's the best platform I know of to start with.
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SingleSeat
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Don't see the sense in that for the price. There are enough direct Webley casts out there (Sidewinder sells his too) that are better than a scan of the Webley on so many levels. Plus the F-4 kit greeblies that KurtyBoy called out way back when are very crude representations of the original parts on the MR. The value of the MR ends at the back of the barrel assembly since this was the part made for Jedi. The remainder of the original Webley was cast and a real scope placed on top.
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clancampbell
Sr Member
A dealer at the Memorabillia show in Birmingham UK recently let me hold the MR Fett Blaster...(he seemed a bit desperate, and i was feeling especially bold due to frequent visits to the bar!)..it was damn heavy, solid resin with no working features. it also had the worst paint job i'd ever seen. £250.00? No chance.......
Rich
Rich
interesting... what about it makes it stand out? i haven't seen one in person, and the photos it doesn't look much different than what i'm used to seeing.
i'm pretty partial toward my elvistrooper barrel myself, so i'm intrigued to see what the MR did better
Shingouki28
Sr Member
A friend of mine picked one of these a while back. Called me up excitedly to come and have a look when it arrived...Well what can I say? The dimensions did look pretty damn spot on to me but that means squat with the terrible paint job. It does look very toy/cartoon like....Completely ruins the effect. I think the look on my face and his when he saw mine said it all! Needless to say, he promptly sent it back for a refund... :lol I guess if you have the skills and were to repaint it yourself you'd have a totally awesome piece...But it's an awful lot of dough to shell out just to have repaint it when you can get a resin kit for cheaper.
franz bolo
Sr Member
Here's the one from Comicon last year.
FB
FB
SingleSeat
Well-Known Member
interesting... what about it makes it stand out? i haven't seen one in person, and the photos it doesn't look much different than what i'm used to seeing.
i'm pretty partial toward my elvistrooper barrel myself, so i'm intrigued to see what the MR did better
While not as wonderful as a direct cast, the barrel assembly is so good because it's at least scanned information -- the measurements are super tight compared to what can be achieved through simple proportion-ing. The T-Track is topped only by Gino's latest run, and I say it's only topped by Gino because it's mounted unlike real "track" and it's probably injection molded (plus the cross-sectional dimensions of Gino's track are essentially perfect, I'm sure having benefitted from the Vader/saber folks too). All of the greeblies had to be engineered to mount via pegs, dowels, etc. so this takes away from them in a purist sense. I'm still commending MR on everything from the barrel tip, to the tracks, to the aft banded block part, while I'll be the first to stand up and say the rest of it suffers compared to a Webley cast and real kit part greeblies.
I might sound overly dramatic in my candle comment, but I'm always chasing after the last half millimeter in my work and I'm not satisfied without real numbers to back-up what I'm doing, so I'm thrilled when MR can nail it down on big-picture dimensions. Fans simply don't have such access to the most intimate dimensions of the real prop, so it's no slam on them/us. Sure, anyone can get "close," but the goal as I've seen it is "closest." We can only guess at some aspects without the prop in-hand, whereas MR had the best of resources to figure it all out. Beyond that, painting and weathering are the least of my concerns so my expectations are zero for MR to reproduce such an individualized paint and weathering attack for a mass produced product. You can repaint anything, but no amount of paint is going to make a basic dimension correct. It looks as good as it can, and it could have looked a lot worse in the paint department if MR didn't pay attention to this aspect, but it's still a mass market item. Seriously folks, checkout Ripcode's thread about tearing it apart on MPPC if you can to see what's inside this replica. He's giving it a real workover.
Rogue Studios
Well-Known Member
Yeah you enter this paint the proto type game it comes out nothing like what you handed them.
Lee
Lee
SingleSeat
Well-Known Member
Granted...that Lee's individual attention on the paint masters isn't likely to be replicated on a massive scale in a far away land, so the result compromised somewhere in the middle -- but my point was that the middle is certainly better than where it would have been without a good paint master.
This prop is covered in stains, glue remnants, broken/cracked parts, chipped paint, chipped material, dents, holes, and weathered paint. It looks like it's been rotting at the bottom of the ocean. If the MR looked like the real prop, I'm guessing so many MR customers would probably freak out and demand refunds.
This prop is covered in stains, glue remnants, broken/cracked parts, chipped paint, chipped material, dents, holes, and weathered paint. It looks like it's been rotting at the bottom of the ocean. If the MR looked like the real prop, I'm guessing so many MR customers would probably freak out and demand refunds.
PHArchivist
Master Member
Well...
The replica really does look like the screen-used prop. At least how it appeared on film. Not much more than a black gun.
Maybe I need to watch the film again (or in Hi-Def) but I don't recall all the layers and detail of the actual paint job showing on screen. Especially in the Yuma shots where it was often in silhouette.
So for the fan that would probably freak out and demand refunds, it probably looks just fine.
SingleSeat
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Yep, that's pretty much what I'm saying. It generally looks like the real thing, but so do most fan-made replicas. So, it's up to you, the customer, to determine if you're willing to pay the price, get a fan-made piece, or build one yourself. "How far are you willing to go with it...?"
But if you're matching millimeters, the MR's barrel is the way to go, while the prop is actually mostly a dark gray result (just playing on your black gun reference, haha) -- over to Lee on what actual paint color he used on the master.
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