ESB to ROTJ blaster conversion...

well after the jet pack, cape, gauntlets and partially the flak vest.. it is now time for my scratch-build-ESB-blaster to go for it aswell.

not much to show yet, because my parents will be back next tuesday with the digi-cam, hope to have it all done by then.

anyway the main barrel (black part here) is lengthened a little longer, and the silver part was sawed off a few mm.

added the strips on the thing and some rubber rings.

and well... i think it looks ok.

also filled the stock...about to sand that so it won't look like wood anymore.

also going to scratch-build a scope, since the ******** who'd order it for me pulled my leg, and hee I was thinking he was a friend, anyways... more pics next week...

That looks terrific R Boba! What are you making that out of? Do you have shots of your raw component stage? It's coming along very impressively.

Shinobi :skull

thnx :) , but it was not possible without TDH.

I used templates from WoL ( a member here), and plexi-glas was suggested to me by another member.

pretty dumb that I didnt figure that out myself, as I had worked with it before (my armor, shin tools etc)

anyways, i made a few sheets of it and some templates from the blue prints of the real webley gun from WoL... there it is, little fragile though.

It's becomming more fragile because of the extra weight that's being put on the barrel (with the extra pvc pipe, scope, strips etc etc...)

so I'm thinking of recasting my own work once it's finished, anyone have tips on that one?

finally... able to post some pics...

nor progress pics unfortunally, my parents had teh camera with them on their vacation...

anyways, primer is on, although it doesn't hold well to the rubber strips...

the right and left view...

the greeblies and scope are incredibly inaccurate but...I think it looks ok...

the scope are 2 flashlights glues together and the "greeblies" on the stock are joints for doors... uh... the strips (of wich 2 look very crued and uneven... well with paint it'll look like battle damage...) are car window uh.... dryers..?? how do you call that in english... things go ...left...right....left...right when it rains... :lol

wow, that it´s looking great!!!!! and you know? the strips in the mayory of the weapons(aca sabres) are made of car windowS dryers(I don´t know if that is the name...)
for the"greeblies", I use wire...........I put it flat with a hammer, and give the proper shape, and two washers ......
keep it upppp

:D hey that's a cool Idea!

maybe with my next blaster I'll do that, or go look for the real V8 parts ;)

thnx for the compliment :D

this way........(not scale, obviesly!!!!!)

hmm... looks good...

a "washer" is just an iron ring or something?

yes, that it is................an arandela(in spanish jaja)

:D translating is always difficult, especially when it comes to things that you never really hear in movies or learn from english books :D

base color is on...

very basic, it's still way to shiny, no weathering what so ever...

it's not really black, it's a grey/red/blue like mix, looks kinda right to me, juding by the MoM pics anyways.

tommorow I'm gonna wash on some colours, from red to silver and do the brown rust thingies, then all that's left is some black mist to dull the thing down.

THIS WILL LOOK GOOD, MY HOLLAND FRIEND!!!!!!!!!

I show U how I paint it mine..........

hey that looks cool!!!
not to much, just right actually.

But I'm gonna try a MoM paint scheme, alot of colours in it actually, and no silver scratches what so ever. there is some rust though.

gonna show progress pics as I go.

if you want to know what to expect in form of a good or bad paint job... check these threads...

http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f20/esb-rotj-conversion-7983/ jet pack...

http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f25/esb-rotj-gauntlet-conversion-8016/ gauntlets...

heres the blue and silver wash... needs to dry a little, then I'm gonna wash on some gold mixed with red... more pics will follow...

keep sending pics......this is looking good!!!!! :thumbsup

here's the gold & red mix wash...

and the black misting, finishing the main colours.

now all that remains is some rust and dust spots and stripes as seen on MoM pics...

ok, I skipped the rust, as I am not certain they are just dirt from handling over the years in the LFL archive, or rust spots put on onpurpose.

but here it is... finished.

hmm... toke some comparisson shots today, not 100% perfect, but try holding the cam and gun by yourself :b

anyways... looks like the colour is way off... far to dark... but I didn't want a grey gun :?

anyways... here it is... far from perfect... but it's scratch build...

because a few months ago my scratch blaster broke I was now scouting to start cusomizing one of those kenner E-11's into a custom star wars gun that would just look kinda cool.

well I'm not goin to change much, as it will only become more and more fragile.

I used 2 small screw ring thingies and 2 small pieces of wood. I screwed the kenner open (wich was a pain cause it's also kind of like glued together) and then made 2 ver small holes in the seam line where the 2 plastic halves come together.

screwed the small ring thingies into the small wood blocks, insterted them into the gun at the small holes and put the Kenner back together... tada...

I'm probably going to add a flashlight of some sort, and if I can find one a laser pointer aswell... and some nice coolie paint job like the one above... maybe weatherd some more...

might do something about the kenner scope lenses aswell... they are TOO fake...

not going to fill the screws though, as that will make it impossible to take it appart in the future for fixing or adding things... paint masks alot...so no worries...


the sound fx are still working :D yyyaahhyyy!!! Just laughed so loud when I heard them!! got this Kenner from a friend from a dutch forum for free and wasn't expecting fully working SFX, I didn't even really care, but now that theyre working... I love em :lol :lol * bzzzt!!*

That ROTJ blaster looks great, keep up the good work!

Cool dude! Great job on the ROTJ Rifle :thumbsup :fettrotj

:) thnx!

here I just made a hole in the kenner and added one of those ISDN blocks didn't even have to be glued in, it's nice and tight in place...

removebale Energy Cells!!! or... something... I dunno just looked nice :b

crammed the flashlight in and cut the tip out so it has an actual opening...

now I need to get a PVC end cap or something as the same diameter as the back of the scope, cut a hole in the diameter of the flash light in it and put it on.

and with the back of the scope closed done with a pvc end cap, just heat it up with a heat gun, slide it over and let it cool, not going anywhere...

dremmeld a small hole in for the flash light.

The wiring was just temporarily, it is now kept in place by another rubber ring at the back.

Rad. I still love your ROTJ blaster.

:) thank you

and here it is with the base colour of paint, wich is a kind of brown/dark purple thing... no black... I hate plain simple matt black guns... so cheap.

then a wash of silver mixed with blue and again with red and gold over that one.

the camera flash kind of kills the look of it, ah well..

only now will matt black spray can come into sight... just a wee bit to make the purple, silver and gold more of a whole...

black misted...

one more step...

Dude that's sweet. I love the energy cell thing. Makes me wanna get finished up on my imperial blaster. So, your ROTJ blaster broke? That sucks. I got mine tore apart again, trying to make it better already. What did you use for the main body part on your ROTJ, above the trigger? Just a heated and molded piece of Sintra? I need that part on mine just a little more accurate, then Ill be happy.

thank you :)

I used a piece of plexiglas and bened that, the entire inside of the "chamber"is almost entirly kitted (bondo that glues) so that's pretty rigid... it's the point at the handle that goes into the chamber just at the edge of the wooden grip where it broke.

got like thousands of tips on how to fix it, with kit, glue, bondo etc.. but it's never going to last very long, so I may fix it someday with some aluminium plates on both sides and screw them together, but even that it will be for display only I gues..

here it is... bit blurry pics but...

well I'm satisfied, so after the misting I added some dusty colours and then slightly black misted again.

working LED and SFX :D WWIIEEHJ!!!

and working flash light, and an ammo..pack... thingy...

need to work on that, I was thinking about painting a new one with actual red and yellow, kind of liek the "Doom" shot gun shells you see on the floor... dunno why maybe to enhance the "ammo" idea...

RBF you are a customizing maniac! :lol

Your work is very creative and your painting is excellent! :thumbsup

thank you :)

That is a sweet blaster. Fett with an imperial blaster...was is issued to him, or is there one less stormtrooper out there:D

well after he crawled out of the sarlacc he was blaster-less.. so when a pesky whity came along he was in the wrong place at the wrong time...

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Originally Posted by RBF

well after he crawled out of the sarlacc he was blaster-less.. so when a pesky whity came along he was in the wrong place at the wrong time...

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:lol :lol

you've got two tickets to the gun show, nice work.

I really like that energy cell idea

-=QuinN!