Star Trek into Darkness phaser. Rubies upgrade

jake88

Sr Member

• Nov 29, 2017

• #1

Found this on Amazon for 2.99 and couldn't pass it up. Going for a repaint/cleaning up and fixing a lot of seams and lines.
It had some weak electronic blaster noise but I tore it out!

 

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jake88

Sr Member

• Dec 5, 2017

• #2

Got some work done. Glued the two halves of the main phaser body together. Inside I put some Apoxie Sculpt in strategic places to give the thing a more realistic feel and balance. I weighed it at just above 6.5 oz. Now for putty, sanding, and primer, repeat
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TinyTim

Active Member

• Dec 5, 2017

• #3

I just ordered mine! Thanks for the lead! Can't wait to do something similar.

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Dec 13, 2017

• #4

Small update: Got the phaser body fairly smoothed out and started priming and looking for bad patches, boy are there a lot. Lots of smoothing out and evening to do before paint
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Last edited: Dec 13, 2017

jake88

Sr Member

• Dec 13, 2017

• #5

Layed down some Krylon Iron paint on the body and Spazstix to the nozzle assembly
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jake88

Sr Member

• Dec 20, 2017

• #6

Well I finally finished the paint. I still do need to get a dial wheel for the top. But that's where I stop. The top is a silver and the bottom is a darker metallic car paint.

 

Last edited: Dec 20, 2017

TinyTim

Active Member

• Feb 8, 2018

• #7

IT LOOKS SO GOOD!!!

I tore mine down, but i wanna mess with swapping the speaker around before I toss it. It's not that bad, especially for the price. I'm planning on 3d printing a more accurate...Barrel? Emitter? [FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY] portion and adding a servo because there's so much space. What auto paint did you use?

 

jake88

Sr Member

• Mar 20, 2018

• #8

TinyTim said:

IT LOOKS SO GOOD!!!

I tore mine down, but i wanna mess with swapping the speaker around before I toss it. It's not that bad, especially for the price. I'm planning on 3d printing a more accurate...Barrel? Emitter? [FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY] portion and adding a servo because there's so much space. What auto paint did you use?

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Thanks, I used several silver and metallic shades, Krylon, Dupli-color and some copper craft paint were used. I just taped it off and sprayed.

 

PHArchivist

Master Member

• Mar 20, 2018

• #9

Excellent work