jbdubz
Active Hunter
Well after roughly 2 years of toying around with it, I finally completed the EE3 kit that I picked up from Stormrider, ICONIC Props so long ago. My whole ESB build began with this EE3 so it only makes sense that it would be the first big piece to the puzzle to get it's own thread. That and she's just my pride and joy 
There are multiple threads out there that helped contribute to this build but a couple blokes I wanted to personally tip my hat to. Mike, Stormrider, for putting out probably the cleanest Webley cast I've seen. Virtually zero clean up, super easy to assemble and overall just a quality prop that I would recommend to anyone in the market for for an EE3, this kit is the teets. Bryan, BCurtis, this build began with an extremely inferior idea for electronics but because of this good dude's words of wisdom, motivation and what can only be labeled as boosting my soldering self esteem to get it done, I was able to make a childhood dream come true and will actually troop with a real laser blaster. Double tip of the hat to you sir. Andy, Intwenothor, for the fabulous Hunter scope (I'm telling you Bryan, that's an H!). And last but certainly not least, Erv Plecter of Plecter Labs which without his BlasterCore, the end result would not be anywhere near possible.
So here goes...
The kit out of the box was almost 100% ready to assemble and came with a sweet real wood stock from good ole Woodman. Little to no clean up, no visible bubbles, super clean cast including the greebs. Only pieces needed were a scope and flash tube which were easily sourced. Picked up a Heiland 2 cell on eBay for cheap thanks to Mike's suggestion and was fortunate enough to snag one of Andy's very well maintained, original Hunter scopes with the correct tall feet.
As you can see, my original plan was to use the electronics I had harvested from my son's Hasbro EE3.
Because this kit was so well made, there was very little prep work or adjusting necessary before painting. The only significant tweak that I wanted to make was regarding the front barrel mount so that's where I started. Mike has now updated his front barrel mounts and from what I have seen, his are now spot on accurate.
My first attempt, I cut the opening a bit wider than i wanted, but damn... look at that shiny Heiland.... anyways, lol, Mike sent me a replacement recently so I gave it another go and am pretty satisfied with the 2nd attempt.
Next up was making the trigger functional. Pretty basic concept. Mike sent me a flexible rubber trigger as well as a resin one however I chose the most accurate resin trigger and proceeded to hollow out the inner trigger area.
Trigger fits, a little help from some washers, good to go.
At this point I hadn't quite figured out how I was going to use the trigger to activate the electronics until I decided what type of micro switch I was going to use. It took a bit, ordered a bunch of different switches but luckily the switch I decided on acted as a spring to set the trigger back to its starting point and eliminated the need to install a spring while still maintaining the simulated movements of a pulled trigger....
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That's pretty much it for prep. The only steps left before adding the electronics was to assemble and paint, not necessarily in that order. Like I said, this kit was super easy to work with. Time for a little Jameson...
Thanks for tuning in, much more to come....
There are multiple threads out there that helped contribute to this build but a couple blokes I wanted to personally tip my hat to. Mike, Stormrider, for putting out probably the cleanest Webley cast I've seen. Virtually zero clean up, super easy to assemble and overall just a quality prop that I would recommend to anyone in the market for for an EE3, this kit is the teets. Bryan, BCurtis, this build began with an extremely inferior idea for electronics but because of this good dude's words of wisdom, motivation and what can only be labeled as boosting my soldering self esteem to get it done, I was able to make a childhood dream come true and will actually troop with a real laser blaster. Double tip of the hat to you sir. Andy, Intwenothor, for the fabulous Hunter scope (I'm telling you Bryan, that's an H!). And last but certainly not least, Erv Plecter of Plecter Labs which without his BlasterCore, the end result would not be anywhere near possible.So here goes...
The kit out of the box was almost 100% ready to assemble and came with a sweet real wood stock from good ole Woodman. Little to no clean up, no visible bubbles, super clean cast including the greebs. Only pieces needed were a scope and flash tube which were easily sourced. Picked up a Heiland 2 cell on eBay for cheap thanks to Mike's suggestion and was fortunate enough to snag one of Andy's very well maintained, original Hunter scopes with the correct tall feet.
As you can see, my original plan was to use the electronics I had harvested from my son's Hasbro EE3.
Because this kit was so well made, there was very little prep work or adjusting necessary before painting. The only significant tweak that I wanted to make was regarding the front barrel mount so that's where I started. Mike has now updated his front barrel mounts and from what I have seen, his are now spot on accurate.
My first attempt, I cut the opening a bit wider than i wanted, but damn... look at that shiny Heiland.... anyways, lol, Mike sent me a replacement recently so I gave it another go and am pretty satisfied with the 2nd attempt.
Next up was making the trigger functional. Pretty basic concept. Mike sent me a flexible rubber trigger as well as a resin one however I chose the most accurate resin trigger and proceeded to hollow out the inner trigger area.
Trigger fits, a little help from some washers, good to go.
At this point I hadn't quite figured out how I was going to use the trigger to activate the electronics until I decided what type of micro switch I was going to use. It took a bit, ordered a bunch of different switches but luckily the switch I decided on acted as a spring to set the trigger back to its starting point and eliminated the need to install a spring while still maintaining the simulated movements of a pulled trigger....
Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online. 212008&authkey=ADz7N0U6khEXjrQ
That's pretty much it for prep. The only steps left before adding the electronics was to assemble and paint, not necessarily in that order. Like I said, this kit was super easy to work with. Time for a little Jameson...
Thanks for tuning in, much more to come....
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