The show your custom BLASTER thread!
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humperdingle
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I made a couple recently... Both hideously ugly 
This one used a toy blaster as a base, cost about £15 total:
And this one - Complete scratch-build. Only thing I bought was the pipe for the vented barrel. Everything else I had in the garage. Cost about £3, but truly awful :facepalm
This one used a toy blaster as a base, cost about £15 total:
And this one - Complete scratch-build. Only thing I bought was the pipe for the vented barrel. Everything else I had in the garage. Cost about £3, but truly awful :facepalm
Christheeagle
New Member
Here's a Dollar Store blaster I made from scratch. I really need to start taking before pictures before I add greeblies. But here you go. Metal model car parts from Hobby Lobby are my go-to's. That and washers, and using light sockets as flash hiders.
JaxAndTheMoon
Sr Member
Some of you may or may not have seen this so far, but this is where my current DL 44 project sits.
Accurized Denix before:
After:
Accurized Denix before:
After:
I got the same pinewood weights to use as grips on a custom lightsaber.
Mara Jade's Father
Master Member
Not a lot of custom work on my part. However about 10 years ago I wanted to try my hand at a Mara Jade holdout blaster. I used a hunk of metal I had machined and cutoff for another blaster project (not sure if I have pictures of that one), squirt gun, a piece of wooden dowel rod, aerator from an old faucet, allen bolts, washers, piece of styrene plastic, glue and paint.
This is the result...
This is the result...
Belgian-made 7.92mm Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) Model 30. There was also a Polish version but the grip is shaped slightly differently. Manufactured from the 1920s through at least WWII.
Barrel/hider is from a shotgun, WookieGunner IDed it but I don't have the info. (Found mine unlabeled in a box of junk.)
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I remember that one! That really looks like a SW blaster.
I'm surprised no one has done a Sten based blaster since a lot of Ralph Mcquarrie's concept drawings look like the characters have a Sten type blaster.
Scott D
Sr Member
Tim A. (D48thRonin) did it in the late 1990's to go along with his McQuarrie Style Fett costume.
It looks great and it's on his Picturetrail website.
Scott D
Sr Member
I can appreciate this one because it'll easily pass the "5 foot rule" that an old friend taught me about. He actually does prop work for some of the GA based film/TV productions now.
"If it looks good from 5 feet away, it'll look great" he used to say. :thumbsup
humperdingle
New Member
I should have stood back a bit with the camera
Aah, it was enjoyable enough to make. Has a steel inner barrel and lots of wooden bits, so fairly hefty.
Solos blaster
Sr Member
I made a couple recently... Both hideously ugly
This one used a toy blaster as a base, cost about £15 total:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/...8-F1FE-4491-B9CA-0D8CABF0EBDE_zpsbbobxboe.jpg
And this one - Complete scratch-build. Only thing I bought was the pipe for the vented barrel. Everything else I had in the garage. Cost about £3, but truly awful :facepalm
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/...6-CB8A-4E08-8D89-0AB28F921A34_zpspc9cacvv.jpg
It's just the equivalent of the Norinco E-11 haha. But seriously, could easily be a subcontracted out version of the E-11 once regular procurement measures had been exhausted while bringing more systems to heel.
That looks way better than the Glock inspired pistol that WAS in TFA!
I have a DL-44 custom I've been tossing around in my head for a while(and most of the parts already)...I don't want to use a denix for it so I may pick up a springer airsoft to do it
Lichtbringer
Master Member
I like that ivory handle C96. :thumbsup
Shingouki28
Sr Member
Here's two blasters I built and sold recently. One was built on an old Binatone TV lightgun whilst the other was a spare resin mauser. I'd had all the parts and greeblies knocking about in the box for ages and just decided it was time to either ditch them or use them...I'm loathe to throw ANY greeblies away.. (I've had some sitting in boxes for over 16 years!) Both builds were done pretty quickly over a weekend.
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