New Templates: Republic Commando!

Wow! Skip that is brillant Ner Vode! I should pop by this site more often, look at all I've missed!

Wow!
That's a amazing piece of work!
Very professional look.

WOW Such beauty i want one

Thanks very much guys!! I'll have new pics later on.

Do you ever sleep. keep up the most excellent work. one day I will get some of your work

Actually I set an alarm to wake me up before the kids get up. It gives me a few hours of peace and quiet to get things done.

This morning though I slept in and didn't get up until around 6.30am. By then my two oldest are awake, so I'll catch up later now.

That is quite impressing! I like the 1mm styrene you used, it looks extremely professional.

Thanks very much! I'm trying to work as cleanly as I can. Trying to keep every seam and cormer sharp. This is probably the most ambitious styrene build I've ever attempted so I'm taking alot of time to get it right.

I've just bought all of the electrical its and bits ready to light this and make it POP! Hopefully.

Ok, I have new pics. I had some time on this this morning so have pretty much closed up the rear end now. I had to add some serious internal support here to keep it in shape and to avoid it twisting and warping as I went along. It's all good now though.

Moving parts so far are the sliding bolt on the blaster attachment, the deployable blast shield for the AA attachment, and now an opening and closing locking clip for the different attachments. The plate for the ammo counter is also removable. I've started building the internal for that display too, not pictured.

The locking clip for the attachments serves a purpose as again I'm using magnets to enable it to lock into place to hold the attachment in place. Right now it's mostly for show but will end up serving a bigger purpose later when I make the different attachments and remove the existing blaster attachment to make that removable.

I've also bought me some new toys and supplies. I got me a new soldering iron and all the rest of the components to light this up. I'm going for green illumination over the usual blue. This is just because I like green, it matches my scheme and because who says that the lights HAVE to be blue if this isn't gonna be a Republic DC eh? LOL!

I've seen a kit out there which allows the builder to have a working counter, flashing muzzle and even sounds on their deece. I'm not going that far yet but I may at a later time.

Anyway, some pics.







Hope you still like it vode!

I tell you what, don't you just hate the way that uploading .jpg pics to photobucket degrades them??!!

EDIT: I forgot to mention. There's a little piece you see on the blast shield that shouldn't be there?? I added that to allow me to easily be able to open the shield when need be. The shield usually sits flush with the rest of the rifle casing and since I'm not using servos to open or close that shield it would be near impossible to open it with gloves on. That little flap allows me to get my thumb under it and pull the shield open.

I started work on a magazine yesterday, my soldering iron arrived so I couldn't wait to try out my idea.

The mag has three LEDs inside powered by a 9v battery, there's also a momentary switch in the circuit. Push in for "on", release for "off". This switch slightly pokes out through a hole in the mag casing so that when the mag is slotted into place in the rifle, the switch is pushed in and activates the LEDs. When the mag is pulled out, the lights go off. This isn't how the mag lights work in game it sems but I wanted to experiment and also thought it'd be a nice way to do it.

The whole circuit and light board are seperate from the magazine and slides inside to allow battery changes or maintenance. Magnets again hold the mag closed when I'm using it. It's still being worked on but here are some pics:



NOTE: That top plate for the mag casing will be fixed into place once I'm satisfied it all works and after I've done the transparent parts.

You can now see the circuit board.

You should be able to see the switch and it's hole here.


Lights on

The unfinished mag in place in the rifle.

The switches aren't fantastic, they need to be pushed right in to activate the LEDs, I'm hoping that magnets pulling the mag into the rifle will hold it tightly enough to push that switch in and activate the LEDs. If not then I'll need to find better switches so fingers crossed.

Later I hope to get the ammo counter done too.

Thanks brothers.

Woopie doo, you nailed that helmet!

That is looking awesome bro.great job!!!

Thanks guys.

Not looked at this for a while but I must say it looks kin-awesome bruv! I can't believe how clean it looks? I'd have glue ALL over the place...

Thanks Mojo! Good to hear from you buddy!!

Yeah it needs a little clean up from the Milliput but it's shaping up well. I just couldn't resist trying out the lighting for the magazine. I'll finish that then get back to building the rest.

No sweat bruv, you gonna cast this up?

I just emailed you about that.

I really hate my slow connection. Can't get pic of bucket. However, that blaster is looking really sweet. When I am drawing, I pay a lot of attention to detail; and I recognize the attention you have put in to this. Beautiful work, man, I hope I can get this good one day.

Thanks very much buddy! I'm really pleased you like it.

Skip, his work was great, congratulations brother



Skip, seu trabalho ficou ótimo, meus parabéns irmão