My reworked E-bay nightmare...

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Jun 20, 2006

• #21

1st casting from the mold of my master stock greeblie #1:

I was kind of doing this one in poorly lit place and didn't catch a couple of the air bubbles. I like to pour the resin and then go around with a disection kit pointer to pull out the bubbles. I figure the less clean up there is to do the less time it takes to get painted and used!!!

I'm about 50% done with the second stock greeblie and will post a pic of it when finished.

Thanks for all the great comments everybody!!

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Jun 25, 2006

• #22

Finished the master for the second stock greeblie today and thought I would update the thread with a new pic:

So off I go to mix up some silicone and catalyst!

 

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gunnerk19

Active Hunter

• Jun 25, 2006

• #23

Dude, that's Insane!! Your master looks better than the real thing they cast off of for the movie...

Now, should you ever decide to make masters of the double banded scope mounts, that would be cool too (hint, hint)!

 

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DarthVader1

Well-Known Hunter

• Jun 26, 2006

• #24

:love :love :love
Where's the SEEKER's "SEAL OF APPROVAL" (amazed) pic when you need it??? This is AMAZING! Keep the good work and the updates. Looking great!

Robert

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Jun 27, 2006

• #25

My 1st casting from the second stock greeblie mold:

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Jun 27, 2006

• #26

Edited because I was using the wrong pic. Oops

 

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imperialissue

Hunter

• Jun 27, 2006

• #27

Nice FREAKIN' work!

Those look GREAT!

 

Boba Fett

Active Hunter

• Jun 27, 2006

• #28

That looks goooooddd

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Jun 29, 2006

• #29

You know I started this thread with showing the original gun so I would be remiss without showing the original quality stock greeblies!

Here they are grouped with the ones I've made and painted:

In retrospect I like the originals so much I may just use those instead...:wacko

Would anybody be interested in getting a set of these (4 pieces in all)? If so, I could post someting in the Cargo Hold or you could just PM me. I promise nice casts with minimal prep work!

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Jul 8, 2006

• #30

Hadn't updated in a while so I thought I would post a few pics with the stock greeblies on...the blaster tip added...and some drybrushed "Boltgun Metal"

I think I may go back and drybrush some more black over some of the rust areas to tone down the rust some. Good idea? Bad idea?

 

GCNgamer128

Sr Hunter

• Jul 8, 2006

• #31

Ehh, I think you might want to remove some of the rusting as you said It looks like you overdid it. Great blaster none the less.

 

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Mandaflorian

Active Hunter

• Jul 8, 2006

• #32

It´s really wet in the Sarlac, isn´t it ? ;-)

Good work, bro, it looks 1000 times better than the poor "thing" you got from ebay. The rust is too much IMO , remove a little bit and you can be proud of a very nice prop !

Greets
tk2647

 

Boba Fett

Active Hunter

• Jul 9, 2006

• #33

Man I am liking your reworked E-bay nightmare!

 

Sheriff Roscoe

Hunter

• Jul 9, 2006

• #34

Yo sure did a great job of rescuing that blaster fantastic weathering too.

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Nov 24, 2006

• #35

It's been a long while since I updated this thread and thought I would throw something on here with a little more progress.

I airbrushed over the gun some and will fine tune weathering once I'm done and happy with the overall mechanical look of the gun.

Added the bombracks.

Made a close-to version of the scope rings from a different scope mount from a $3.00 scope from eBay.

And used the eBay scope plus part of the scope that came with the blaster originally to make it look more like a asi.

Please comment on the placement of the scope!!!! (I haven't placed the frontmost mount block yet)

I wan't to make sure that is as close to the original placement as possible before I mount the other block. Thanks!!!!

 

Mike M.

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Community Staff

TDH PREMIUM MEMBER

• Nov 24, 2006

• #36

just out of curiosity, who did you buy it from on ebay? so that others will know to steer clear of them, unless they have the time and patience to work magic like you have.

 

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drokkul

Well-Known Hunter

• Nov 24, 2006

• #37

saint_nasty said:

just out of curiosity, who did you buy it from on ebay? so that others will know to steer clear of them, unless they have the time and patience to work magic like you have.

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Probably no issue with that. I bought this thing years ago and as I recall the seller had no other prop items for sale or any listed in their feedback.

The seller may not have even known that he was selling off a piece of crud. Afterall I was kind of happy with it when I first got it.

I'm a LOT happier with it now, though