Finished up my another FDM printed DL-44 Blaster and again wanted to show it off. This one is the Hoth blaster from TESB.
The goal as always is to recreate it as accurately as possible to the film prop itself. I also wanted it to be "functional" so just like a real MGC the trigger releases the hammer, the bolt can be pulled back, the safety works and will lock the hammer in place, mag plate comes off and the sight will slide. It can also be field stripped and fully disassembled as well.
First these are the some of the specific pics I payed attention to for this recreation. For the MGC I reused the base CAD design that was already created for the Endor blaster..
These specific posts and findings I found to be extremely helpful as well in bringing this prop to life..
•DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 573
•DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 613
•DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 670
It was first drawn up in Solidworks and assembled to make sure everything fits as it should..
And then it was physically brought to life with a Bambu Lab P1S. The blaster was printed up in different colored PLA filaments taking advantage of BL’s AMS system. The screws, springs and glass lens are pretty much the only things not printed. I used both a 4mm nozzle (.12mm height) and a .2mm nozzle (.06mm height) depending on the part itself and the details desired to be captured. This is probably my favorite OT DL-44..
1:1 Han Solo's Hoth DL-44 Blaster from "The Empire Strikes Back”..
Once I got everything printed up and assembled I then added the lines to the flash hider by using a sharpie (similar to film prop obviously) as well as adding some white acrylic paint to help make the letters/numbers pop on the m19 scope replica..
Now this is obviously subjective as there isn’t any real pictures that show the Mystery Knob that covers the Mystery Disk on this blaster but I still wanted to add something that might be in ball park to how it looked while filming..
The goal as always is to recreate it as accurately as possible to the film prop itself. I also wanted it to be "functional" so just like a real MGC the trigger releases the hammer, the bolt can be pulled back, the safety works and will lock the hammer in place, mag plate comes off and the sight will slide. It can also be field stripped and fully disassembled as well.
First these are the some of the specific pics I payed attention to for this recreation. For the MGC I reused the base CAD design that was already created for the Endor blaster..
These specific posts and findings I found to be extremely helpful as well in bringing this prop to life..
•DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 573
•DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 613
•DL-44 ESB Blaster Discussion - Greeblies POST 670
It was first drawn up in Solidworks and assembled to make sure everything fits as it should..
And then it was physically brought to life with a Bambu Lab P1S. The blaster was printed up in different colored PLA filaments taking advantage of BL’s AMS system. The screws, springs and glass lens are pretty much the only things not printed. I used both a 4mm nozzle (.12mm height) and a .2mm nozzle (.06mm height) depending on the part itself and the details desired to be captured. This is probably my favorite OT DL-44..
1:1 Han Solo's Hoth DL-44 Blaster from "The Empire Strikes Back”..
Once I got everything printed up and assembled I then added the lines to the flash hider by using a sharpie (similar to film prop obviously) as well as adding some white acrylic paint to help make the letters/numbers pop on the m19 scope replica..
Now this is obviously subjective as there isn’t any real pictures that show the Mystery Knob that covers the Mystery Disk on this blaster but I still wanted to add something that might be in ball park to how it looked while filming..