Blaster ROTJ Recipe

[Sidewinder]

You will need:
One resin Webley kit (I recomend Sidewinder's )
Plastic pipe
scope
Resin scope rings
assorted greeblies
plenty of 'T' shape material (I shall be using blast-tech flavour)

Ingredients pic:

 

[asok]

Where did you get the "T" shape material.

 

[Sidewinder]

I bought it by the foot a while ago from http://www.blast-tech.com.

SAS

Where did you get the "T" shape material.

 

[Sidewinder]

Throw roughly together:

 

[stonerook]

I bought it by the foot a while ago from http://www.blast-tech.com.

SAS

do you have the blast-tech part number?

 

[Sidewinder]

This page near bottom GMB-XX

http://www.blast-tech.com/products_rubberStrip.asp

SAS

 

[stonerook]

This page near bottom GMB-XX

http://www.blast-tech.com/products_rubberStrip.asp

SAS

that will work - thanks!

 

[pennywise]

Awsome Sidewinder! Let see the rest!!!

 

[kurtyboy]

Some new parts on their way to you Sidewinder!

 

[Sidewinder]

SAS

 

[Caomhanach]

Whats the dia (ID and OD) of the pipe you use for the barrel? (And the length..)

 

[Sidewinder]

White is 51.5mm ID & 55.8mm OD, 3" long

Grey is 48mm ID & 50mm OD, sticks out 8" from white.

SAS

 

[pennywise]

Hey Sidewinder when do we get to see the rest?:love And are you gonna sell the ROTJ kits (cooling vanes, rings, greebles, ect.) to go with your Webley kit?

 

[Sidewinder]

When i've got it done, damn your impatient eyes!!!!
If enough people would be interested, then probably.

SAS

Hey Sidewinder when do we get to see the rest?:love And are you gonna sell the ROTJ kits (cooling vanes, rings, greebles, ect.) to go with your Webley kit?

 

[pennywise]

When i've got it done, damn your impatient eyes!!!!
If enough people would be interested, then probably.

SAS

Yeah, I was thinking you could even sell "resin" cooling vanes to keep the cost down. I don't know, just an idea.

 

[Caomhanach]

most of the guttering pipes (looks like them in your photo) in the US are rectangle/square (at least here - although I havent really looked hard yet) so the dia of pipe, and the pipes are usually much thicker than the uk types, so you supplying the pipes would be a great start/addition (hint, hint)...

Hey Sidewinder when do we get to see the rest?:love And are you gonna sell the ROTJ kits (cooling vanes, rings, greebles, ect.) to go with your Webley kit?

 

[pennywise]

most of the guttering pipes (looks like them in your photo) in the US are rectangle/square (at least here - although I havent really looked hard yet) so the dia of pipe, and the pipes are usually much thicker than the uk types, so you supplying the pipes would be a great start/addition (hint, hint)...

That's what I'm sayn! If you make a "complete kit" to go with the kit you already offer, I think you would probably get alot of interest.

 

[Sidewinder]

I've done some aly blocks for the scope to sit on and am turning a biggish piece of aly for the muzzle based on pics of the real one.

Are lathe motors supposed to smoke??

Regards pipes and the ROTJ, I would do the muzzle/barrel/T fins all as one piece so it could be slipped on over the webley barrel.

Pic now added - it's almost too good to paint!

SAS

 

[Sidewinder]

I'm thinking of doing a casting of the whole lot as one piece, including the Webley bit seen in the pic. That way I could cast up just the finned/white bit or the whole lot depending on what people want/have already.

There is a handy layout diagram of the rib position on the barrel that I used (Ta whoever). Except it shows the front scope block replacing a section of one rib, whereas I believe it should go between two ribs. The photos of a real prop back this up.

Ribbed for your pleasure (Scope blocks not fixed in place.):

 

[Caomhanach]

Wow, that nozzle looks great... I see what you mean about not painting it, but the natural weathering (when it get's scratched) on it would look cool...