Phase 1 : My Star Wars Blaster Builds
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Re: My Blaster Projects; DL-44 / E-11 / DDC
Now all I have to do is work out some sort of pin or dowel to attach the flash hider with a 19mm inner-diameter to the barrel with a 5mm inner-diameter and leave a centre section with 10mm outer diameter for wrapping the cord spiral. Front sight block is a 10mm cube neodymium magnet which will be painted black of course.
Now all I have to do is work out some sort of pin or dowel to attach the flash hider with a 19mm inner-diameter to the barrel with a 5mm inner-diameter and leave a centre section with 10mm outer diameter for wrapping the cord spiral. Front sight block is a 10mm cube neodymium magnet which will be painted black of course.
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Lichtbringer
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Re: Blaster Builds; DL-44 / E-11 / DDC / DT-12
You´re from the UK - why you didn´t used the original parts?
http://www.reademodels.com/
You´re from the UK - why you didn´t used the original parts?
http://www.reademodels.com/
Re: Blaster Builds; DL-44 / E-11 / DDC / DT-12
The reason I'm not considering the original Tomtit/Veron moulding is that DEC supplies a turned Delrin version with the flash hider kit and it would not make any sense to order another one. Plus, the turned Delrin actually has a much nicer finish than the original moulded PVC...
The reason I'm not considering the original Tomtit/Veron moulding is that DEC supplies a turned Delrin version with the flash hider kit and it would not make any sense to order another one. Plus, the turned Delrin actually has a much nicer finish than the original moulded PVC...
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Re: Blaster Builds; DL-44 / E-11 / DDC / DT-12
I didn't build the Crosman version in the end. Got fed up with it not being perfect.
Decided to cancel the Greedo blaster until a real deactivated Ruger mk1 comes along at the right price...
I didn't build the Crosman version in the end. Got fed up with it not being perfect.
Decided to cancel the Greedo blaster until a real deactivated Ruger mk1 comes along at the right price...
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Re: Star Wars Blaster Builds
This is a box ticked off the list on my mission to create a display of Star Wars weapons; Han Solo's DL-44 'Greedo killer'.
Brief precis of the past 4 months; I started with a 1990's Marushin Mauser Schnellfeuer M712 (they don't make a C96 replica in plug-fire) and then added a Solo's Hold GK scope-mount and grill, a Weaver 2.5 scope with 'big target' screws off eBay and an original WW2 'Grease gun' flash hider from my secret German gun parts supplier.
I was going to scrub the gold off it and then 'key' it and blue the chromium layer underneath with Birchwood-Casey chemicals but it didn't take well so I used the same method as scottjua, here on the forum, when he built his live-fire C96. I keyed the surface and painted it with Rustoleum multi-surface flat black. When that was dry I used 0000 wire wool to buff the surface and flatten the black into a dark gunmetal grey. A bit of weathering on the highlights and I'm done.
Since it's a plug-fire gun I can, in theory, take this one outside and loose off a few blanks. The added bonus of it being a 712 instead of a 96 is that it fires the whole ten round mag in full-auto(!). Of course this won't actually happen. Partly because black paint layers I have added in and around the receiver will probably cause feed-jams and partly because in the current climate of political paranoia I would be reported to the police immediately if I even tried. Oh well, perhaps one day.
I probably should have painted the hammer and sights and the trigger and the firing slide thing black but I really like the contrast between gunmetal and chrome and brushed surfaces so it's staying. Anyway, it's done and I'm really happy. I just weighed it and it weighs 1.77kg (3lb 14oz) with a full mag. It's a real beast!
There will be a bit more weathering and touching-up the paintwork next weekend (yes, that's a dirty thumb print on the rear scope-mount disk) and I still have to install the teeny-tiny screw into the side of the grill, when I find a hex-key that damn small, but for now I just wanted to get some pictures up.
Cheers!
This is a box ticked off the list on my mission to create a display of Star Wars weapons; Han Solo's DL-44 'Greedo killer'.
Brief precis of the past 4 months; I started with a 1990's Marushin Mauser Schnellfeuer M712 (they don't make a C96 replica in plug-fire) and then added a Solo's Hold GK scope-mount and grill, a Weaver 2.5 scope with 'big target' screws off eBay and an original WW2 'Grease gun' flash hider from my secret German gun parts supplier.
I was going to scrub the gold off it and then 'key' it and blue the chromium layer underneath with Birchwood-Casey chemicals but it didn't take well so I used the same method as scottjua, here on the forum, when he built his live-fire C96. I keyed the surface and painted it with Rustoleum multi-surface flat black. When that was dry I used 0000 wire wool to buff the surface and flatten the black into a dark gunmetal grey. A bit of weathering on the highlights and I'm done.
Since it's a plug-fire gun I can, in theory, take this one outside and loose off a few blanks. The added bonus of it being a 712 instead of a 96 is that it fires the whole ten round mag in full-auto(!). Of course this won't actually happen. Partly because black paint layers I have added in and around the receiver will probably cause feed-jams and partly because in the current climate of political paranoia I would be reported to the police immediately if I even tried. Oh well, perhaps one day.
I probably should have painted the hammer and sights and the trigger and the firing slide thing black but I really like the contrast between gunmetal and chrome and brushed surfaces so it's staying. Anyway, it's done and I'm really happy. I just weighed it and it weighs 1.77kg (3lb 14oz) with a full mag. It's a real beast!
There will be a bit more weathering and touching-up the paintwork next weekend (yes, that's a dirty thumb print on the rear scope-mount disk) and I still have to install the teeny-tiny screw into the side of the grill, when I find a hex-key that damn small, but for now I just wanted to get some pictures up.
Cheers!
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@Alexmiller1 said; Where did you buy this from?
It's for sale just down the road from me at Helston Gunsmiths (helstongunsmiths.com) but I didn't buy it in the end. I decided the Boba Fett carbine project would end up being just too expensive to look at this year.
Since you're in the states you wouldn't be able to have it anyway. Exporting firearms (even certified deactivated ones) from the UK is just about impossible. George Lucas couldn't manage to do it for the ep.4 Tunisia filming back in the 70's when the rules were more relaxed so there's no chance today.
@Alexmiller1 said; Where did you buy this from?
It's for sale just down the road from me at Helston Gunsmiths (helstongunsmiths.com) but I didn't buy it in the end. I decided the Boba Fett carbine project would end up being just too expensive to look at this year.
Since you're in the states you wouldn't be able to have it anyway. Exporting firearms (even certified deactivated ones) from the UK is just about impossible. George Lucas couldn't manage to do it for the ep.4 Tunisia filming back in the 70's when the rules were more relaxed so there's no chance today.
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Re: Star Wars Blaster Builds
Test fitting the painted Power Cylinders and DEC scope. Have to weather that rail a bit...
This is looking more like a weathered desert trooper weapon and less like a pristine Death Star trooper's gun as I work on it more, which is fine.
Test fitting the painted Power Cylinders and DEC scope. Have to weather that rail a bit...
This is looking more like a weathered desert trooper weapon and less like a pristine Death Star trooper's gun as I work on it more, which is fine.
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Anybody know if T-tracks on imperial blasters should be weathered in some way or left pristine?
Since I've aged and weathered the rest of the gun I'm thinking maybe just flatten the shine on my Wannawanga tracks a little with a plastic 'scotchbrite' type pad?
Anybody know if T-tracks on imperial blasters should be weathered in some way or left pristine?
Since I've aged and weathered the rest of the gun I'm thinking maybe just flatten the shine on my Wannawanga tracks a little with a plastic 'scotchbrite' type pad?
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