The show your custom BLASTER thread!

[moonwalker]

Rebuilding (and modifying) an airgun, I wanted to get kind of a mix of a Westar 34 and a Westar 35...

Let's call it the Westar 34.5

 

[SethS]

That’s a great base.

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

I built a custom Blaster a little while back & tried to give it a coulda been OT feel based on the fact that they used a lot of ww2 German guns in the films

airsoft MP40 with barrel removed & cut down mag

ESB flash hider & v8 pistons

singlepoint scope

various greeblies from toy packaging (the bits that the ties go through to hold stuff in place)

ultimately I was never 100% happy with it but I kinda achieved what I wanted to

anyway saw this thread & thought I'd share :lol

Who made the flash hider?

 

[YEOLDOAK]

My pump action blaster, more for testing out build method and tool setups for another
blaster build : )

 

[Country Paul]

Who made the flash hider?

Wow, now that’s a blaster from the past

It was a Doopydoos resin flash hider cut from one of their Han ESB kits

I hollowed it out to fit on the barrel of the MP40

Like so much of my collection it’s long gone now

 

[publiusr]

Dollar store guns are a great source of blaster bases

I had a very rare squirt gun bought in very late 70’s early 80’s that looked a bit like a Tec-9…clip, scope, etc.

Have not found it on the internet—any ideas?

 

[Shingouki28]

I had a very rare squirt gun bought in very late 70’s early 80’s that looked a bit like a Tec-9…clip, scope, etc.

Have not found it on the internet—any ideas?

Entertech/LJN did a range of realistic water guns

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I don't know if that's the brand I had, but I remember having a battery powered M-16 water gun that looks close to that one. The pump didn't last very long.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

I had this one in the 80s. Still might have it at my parents house.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5QcAAOSwhylkY6n7/s-l1600.jpg

 

[publiusr]

It wasn't any of those--a fanciful design.

 

[4str0m3ch]

I had a very rare squirt gun bought in very late 70’s early 80’s that looked a bit like a Tec-9…clip, scope, etc.

Have not found it on the internet—any ideas?

Was that one with batteries? I remember in the mid-80s there was a whole range of squirt guns that looked like real replicas with magazines as water reservoirs.

 

[YEOLDOAK]

What I learned from the tools used making the pump action wood blaster
went into this and some : ) still in progress.

 

[JFB64]

Ahh, old school, how refreshing. Love it.

 

[publiusr]

Was that one with batteries? I remember in the mid-80s there was a whole range of squirt guns that looked like real replicas with magazines as water reservoirs.

No batteries—I was playing in the snow, dropped it—and it broke from the cold.
I painted it black—-it was blue/clear…I think.

 

[Kobeque]

What I learned from the tools used making the pump action wood blaster
went into this and some : ) still in progress.
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This is awesome! I really love the chunky look of everything, and the green stock/carry handle are reminding me of aliens. How did you achieve that texture on the grip?

 

[YEOLDOAK]

@Kobeque
Thanks. Yeh Alien was an influence with the P90 and Accuracy International AW rifle
thrown into the imagination, plus what was at hand with materials, tools etc and I needed a push
away from the likes of tables and chairs to give motivation to learn new things : )

The texture on the beech wood stock grips was a play around to see, used a wood wet rot stuff
which is like a liquid glue, soaks into the wood fibres glueing, binding and sorta sealing everything,
then applied a texture coat paint, craft shops sell it for stone texture effects on surfaces and the like,
after which an overcoat of olive green spray paint.

All seems ok with hardly any notice to wood grain, pits or paint drawn into the wood, plus
the wood wet rot stuff is very thin like thinners so coating hard surfaces like alloy give
a good durable adhesion for spray paint, perhaps an alternative if you dont have acid etch for aluminium.

Will try and post pics of the paints and stuff when I get them out amongst the piles of clutter : )

 

[TJJohn12]

I saw this concept art image in a recent lot from Julien's Auctions and it caught my fancy. I used to work in a living history museum with blackpowder weapons, so a blaster based on a 19th century caplock pistol was really intriguing to me. It looks like the artist drew atop a found image of a single shot "pocket pistol" - which would make the blaster rather small. I actually tried it at true scale initially, but it was a bit too "noisy cricket." So I scaled it up a little. It's gone through a few revisions, but I'm beginning to be really happy with where it ended up:

 

[Romeo Lima]

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I saw this concept art image in a recent lot from Julien's Auctions and it caught my fancy. I used to work in a living history museum with blackpowder weapons, so a blaster based on a 19th century caplock pistol was really intriguing to me. It looks like the artist drew atop a found image of a single shot "pocket pistol" - which would make the blaster rather small. I actually tried it at true scale initially, but it was a bit too "noisy cricket." So I scaled it up a little. It's gone through a few revisions, but I'm beginning to be really happy with where it ended up:

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I like that you made the effort to include a presentation box!

 

[Alan Solo]

A cheap airsoft grenade launcher with ESB EE3 inspiration. This currently represents about two minutes work.
I plan to cover the lower rail with wood, drill some MPP-style holes in the front and perhaps add some piston halves to the flat area in front of the exposed part of the chamber. I'll then need to learn how to weather it.

 

[MojaveTrooper]

A cheap airsoft grenade launcher with ESB EE3 inspiration. This currently represents about two minutes work.
I plan to cover the lower rail with wood, drill some MPP-style holes in the front and perhaps add some piston halves to the flat area in front of the exposed part of the chamber. I'll then need to learn how to weather it.

Looking nice so far!