Good day,
When I saw that Jyn’s blaster was based on a luger, it went to the top of my list. Seems like the “old” days when many of the blasters were based on German weapons.
I wanted to wait for the movie in the hopes that good pictures of it would be available. But there aren’t many good pictures so I ‘ve endeavored to produce my best interpretation of Jyn’s screen used blaster. Thanks for this thread and all the info so many people have contributed.
Here’s what I did: Using 6061 aluminum.
Scaled and machined the receiver side pieces. On the right side I attached a filler piece to the receiver just above the grip to add support and add more metal for the threaded holes. Drilled and threaded holes for the side pieces. The Battlefront images were helpful for these components.
Machined the bridging piece for the top of the receiver and drilled it for the 4 screws. This part was difficult to be sure of so I have interpreted it as best I could. The barrel, tip, and ring were machined. Pretty straight forward as they are easily seen in most pictures. The bar under the barrel seems to be represented differently in many of the drawings , etc, I found in a scene that didn’t make it into the movie but was in some previews, where Jyn is running with the blaster in her right hand and the plans for the deathstar in her left. The blaster is shown in silhouette. The bar under the barrel is thin and doesn’t touch the barrel in front of the ring. It’s also shown when Jyn is crouching, back to a wall, in the street scene. I left a tiny bit of metal in front of the ring to help capture and locate the ring. The other difficult piece is the round greeblie in front of the trigger on the right side. Just guessed at that. Made an inner barrel to fit over and wedge onto the luger barrel and supported by the back of the muzzle tip. Assembled with screws where they show and JB weld for pieces where I didn’t want visible fasteners. The action does not cycle.
I like it.
Here are the parts I made or used and the final (unweathered) blaster
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