Jabba's Palace Guard blaster

JetSetWilly

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• Jun 14, 2013

• #1

Added Palace Guard blaster to the thread


Along with Country Paul I made the most of our week of summer and went at my Denix Hoth build. I've been holding out for a MGC but things didn't go as planned so this will do for starters.

I dug out a Denix I've had for a while. The nose was crushed so had to chop it of, I know it would've been better poking through the flash hider but it was a mess.

Cleaned and drilled and tapped.

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Then tried the mount and pistons before painting.

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Then it all went together

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The FH isn't fixed yet, after a few coats of paint it doesn't slip on as far as I'd like and the coils aren't fixed yet as I wasn't sure which way round, I think this is right?
Also, the rivets look a little off in the pic but that's just a rare appearance from the sun casting shadows.

All that's left, apart from making the FH and coils good, is to beat him up a little. My wife began the weathering process a little early with her heavy handed approach to gun slinging. I only let her feel guilty for ten minutes before telling her that was the way forward

I have to say a big thanks to Michael/Lichtbringer for his quality mount, FH and disc along with Markus/OdiWan72 for their wealth of information. Also KhalDrogo for the real M19, cheers!

Next stop, ANH.

 

Last edited: Sep 13, 2013

thd9791

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• Jun 15, 2013

• #2

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

goregeous!

 

scottjua

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• Jun 24, 2013

• #3

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

Sweet Action man!

For my ESB I chose to go with a Luke, as I already have two Han blasters, but I love this hoth version too.

Oh gosh... please let me not NEED to have all the variants.

It looks great!

 

JetSetWilly

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• Jun 26, 2013

• #4

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

Thanks Scott!

Of course you have to build all the variations, surely it would be rude not to

 

OdiWan72

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• Jun 26, 2013

• #5

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

Looking great!

If you plan to stick with the =O shaped V8 parts instead of accurate greeblies, I´d recommend to flip the so the smaller end are facing each other....making these look closer to the real deal

I have a (V.3) Hoth blaster in the works myself and will try to paint the "knurling" onto the flashhider.
We´ll see how this works out



Markus

 

OdiWan72

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• Jun 26, 2013

• #6

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

Forgot to say....once you´ve been bitten by the blaster bug, you´ll HAVE TO own every incarnation of a prop (in this case...BLAAAAAAASTERS )

Take it from a man, who´s addicted himself :lol

Markus

 

scottjua

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• Jun 26, 2013

• #7

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

here's a larger pic of the same shot. I tried to upsample it and subtly enhance the details as much as possible without losing them to artifcats (open in new tab/window for full size):

Don't mean to hijack your build thread, but I'm still trying to figure out the shape of these parts. Vince showed some small pics of them in his new interest thread...

what other evidence is there for this? Crazy... it's a perfect shot... just too low res.

 

JetSetWilly

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• Jun 26, 2013

• #8

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

No worries Scott.
I just spotted Vince's thread, I haven't stuck those bits down as I was probably going to add better greebs at a later date.

Look forward to seeing your Hoth version Markus and yes, I'd say I've been well and truly bitten.

Had a play with the scope today Scott and added the knobs and tip from Markus, will get some pics up with the GK.

Cheers

 

sdhlaw1701

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• Jun 26, 2013

• #9

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

That's Sweet!

 

JetSetWilly

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• Jul 5, 2013

• #10

Re: Han Hoth DL-44

A few pics of the Compaq super 4x31, I added the correct cast knobs and metal tip courtesy of Markus and stuck him on my GK. I also dropped a glass lens in there that I got from a kid's microscope, dremmeled to fit. Just need to paint the new screws and touch in the 'Compaq' on the new knob cast.

I can't take credit for the Blaster, it was Scott's originally as was the scope.
Cheers!

 

scottjua

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• Jul 5, 2013

• #11

Re: Han Hoth DL-44 & GK

That looks awesome! Glad that all worked out!

 

JetSetWilly

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• Jul 5, 2013

• #12

Re: Han Hoth DL-44 & GK

Thanks Scott!

 

JetSetWilly

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• Sep 13, 2013

• #13

Re: Han Hoth DL-44 & GK

Had a free afternoon so worked on my Palace Guard blaster.
I'd painted it a few weeks ago so just flipped the sight with a little dremeling and attached the side plates.

Still need to sort a mount for the scope and as with all my blasters I need to weather it. Think I'll save them all up and have a weathering fest at the end

I'm happy with it so far.

 

OdiWan72

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• Sep 13, 2013

• #14

nice blaster

Markus

 

scottjua

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• Sep 13, 2013

• #15

VEry awesome!

 

kurtyboy

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• Sep 14, 2013

• #16

Where's everybody getting those 'tri' discs for their Hoth blaster scope mounts? I keep seeing them but don't recall anyone ever offering them for sale!

 

OdiWan72

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• Sep 14, 2013

• #17

you'll be covered on the disc Marcus

Markus

 

scottjua

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• Aug 13, 2018

• #18

Re: Han Hoth DL-44 & GK

JetSetWilly said:

Had a free afternoon so worked on my Palace Guard blaster.
I'd painted it a few weeks ago so just flipped the sight with a little dremeling and attached the side plates.

Still need to sort a mount for the scope and as with all my blasters I need to weather it. Think I'll save them all up and have a weathering fest at the end

I'm happy with it so far.

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what did you use for the sight greeblie... the ones that's attached to the sight under the barrel...(pen cap?)

 

Marv

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• Aug 13, 2018

• #19

I wander are those metal shaped pieces on the side are from the same thing used on the reveal helmet, after all they appear in the same movie?

 

JetSetWilly

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• Aug 13, 2018

• #20

Re: Han Hoth DL-44 & GK

You’d have to ask Markus as all the parts came from him, naturally
I’ll have a look and take some better pics if you like.

scottjua said:

what did you use for the sight greeblie... the ones that's attached to the sight under the barrel...(pen cap?)

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