Beautiful work man. I've only built 1 DL-44, 1 e-11 and I not too long ago finished a jyn erso a180 blaster. Here's a comparison of mine and the screen used prop.
My Star Wars Prop builds
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My goodness. I've always wanted to build one of these. You have metal parts as well? I haven't found a good resin kit.
After quite a while I now want to show a project I picked up again.
My Relby K-23 Bespin blaster.
It‘s based on a real Nemrod Galeon Speargun. I made the muzzle and the barrel sleeve from aluminium, the two gears are steel ones. I added a threaded rod into the back of the barrel tube to fix the end cap with a screw.
I didn’t have the original greeblies, except some V8 parts, and getting them from shapeways, etc. was too expensive, so I made them myself from styrene.
My Relby K-23 Bespin blaster.
It‘s based on a real Nemrod Galeon Speargun. I made the muzzle and the barrel sleeve from aluminium, the two gears are steel ones. I added a threaded rod into the back of the barrel tube to fix the end cap with a screw.
I didn’t have the original greeblies, except some V8 parts, and getting them from shapeways, etc. was too expensive, so I made them myself from styrene.
After being satisfied with the surface, I found the left side of the blaster looking empty an missing some symmetry. So I decided to make another coffee stirrer for the left side. May be they‘ve done this on the original blaster too and it just fell off ;-)
Anyway, I‘ pleased with the result.
Then I sprayed the blaster with a anodize spray. It has the look of anodized aluminium with a nice warm silver tone. After drying came the clear coating. After drying of that I was surprised, the clear coat reacted somehow with the silver spray. It now looks like real raw cast aluminium. I really like that effect.
Anyway, I‘ pleased with the result.
Then I sprayed the blaster with a anodize spray. It has the look of anodized aluminium with a nice warm silver tone. After drying came the clear coating. After drying of that I was surprised, the clear coat reacted somehow with the silver spray. It now looks like real raw cast aluminium. I really like that effect.
I agree it looks like the stirrer might have fallen off
You do stunning work Ralph. You're very talented.
zenx13
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Such an amazing collection - you are a very skilled maker! What is the history on the Macrobinoculars? I am working on a pair for myself right now.
Thank you very much for your kind words.
The Binoculars are made from a resin kit by Doopydoo's from the UK. Even it's a quite good kit, I refined some details and added real glass lenses which were several leftovers from different scopes I used otherwise. I'll post some pics of it tomorrow.
The Binoculars are made from a resin kit by Doopydoo's from the UK. Even it's a quite good kit, I refined some details and added real glass lenses which were several leftovers from different scopes I used otherwise. I'll post some pics of it tomorrow.
As promised, here are some pics of the Binoculars.
Even it‘ not really screen accurate it‘s a nice replica for an affordable price. But, to be honest, it didn’t stop me from grabbing one of Odiwan72‘s superb replicas of this thing. I‘ll also post it when I will start the build.
But here the actual Binoculars.
Even it‘ not really screen accurate it‘s a nice replica for an affordable price. But, to be honest, it didn’t stop me from grabbing one of Odiwan72‘s superb replicas of this thing. I‘ll also post it when I will start the build.
But here the actual Binoculars.
