Toms custom Han Solo ANH blaster

[thd9791]

Hi folks,

I’ll take some better pictures once I put clear coat on this.

I found a 1980s Marushin M712 model gun at a local antique store! Now, the innards are pot metal and steel, the grips have a metal weighted insert and the body is plastic! Weird right?

Anyway, I ran a threaded coupling nut through the magazine because I didn’t trust any tap in the plastic body. Looking at the gun… it’s a weird shape, so I went looking for a scope… for cheap. This Bushnell was small enough and looked cool. It came with a pistol grip mount and I chopped that to make a Han Solo ANH style mount. I did this by hand with a drill press, rotary tool and metal files… not the cleanest job but I’m proud.




I cut the sight things off the scope and replaced them with some greeblies. Let’s play a game, what greeblies can you spot?!

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

NIce work!

 

[thd9791]

A little teaser before I go into more detail
Here’s the scope I used…

And a silhouette

 

[thd9791]

Okay so first.. the flash hider is a replica from the community, I can’t remember who’s, and I drilled a single M4 st screw in the main groove underneath. This barrel had a step down which I didn’t like, so I added an aluminum tube sleeve to it, and ran the flash hider back to the joint

The mount I cobbled together to compliment the chunk of original scope rail included with the scope. I took some inspiration from the ROTJ mount, running M3 screws from the back

Finally I countersunk a bronze thrust bearing for an M6 countersunk screw for the main vertical screw. I was looking for thumbnuts locally and got nowhere, I really like this version tho. The side nuts are 1/4 20 camera thumb nuts, I could only grab American threaded coupling nuts to run through the magazine

This is finished off with krylon black, a little gloss can I found on clearance, and some matte clear enamel from rustoleum. Things like the flash hider were a couple rounds of weathering and black paint back and forth. Body is rustoleum grill paint, that dull black/gray… I wanted a more metallic color for the body.

Greeblies…
DV6/Barbican mystery part
TC-67 cassette recorder button
Boot stud
V8 Piston set
Random thin washers stacked to resemble a pulley
Kodak Instamatic plastic bushing
Bushnell pistol grip scope mount
Michell Coke Knob replicas
1980s M712 Mauser model gun
Bushnell 1.5x scope
Bespin Flash Hider replica

 

[Halliwax]

Looks great buddy! You always amazed me

I think we need you to change your name To “Ladiesman”