E-11 ANH DVH kit - WIP

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

No, as i said in a previous post, it broke when i was attempting to bend it so i had to buy a new thinner one.

 

(And regarding the music choice  )

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3050/jkxg.jpg

Edited June 18, 2013 by The5thHorseman

[Tolo[TK]]

No, as i said in a previous post, it broke when i was attempting to bend it so i had to buy a new thinner one.

 

(And regarding the music choice  )

J'avais mal lu :s

Chanceux pour le concert

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

I think these would the last pics before a while but i wanted to show how this bad boy looks like when all is affixed together

I haven't done much more since the last post but it's only because there's almost nothing more to do !

 

First, I rounded the edges of the plexiglass i made for my hengstler:

 

and then made my counter numbers. Thanks Nicky for the basis to work with, helps me a lot !

 

And now the overviews:

- Right side (sorry this one is blurred...):

 

- Back left :

 

- Back right:

 

- Left side:

 

- Bottom view:

 

- Front left:

 

- Front:

 

- Front right:

 

- Top view:

 

But I still need to clean and fix my power cylinders though. And of course paint it !! 

Edited February 26, 2014 by The5thHorseman

[Robo Tarot[TK]]

I must say, I'm currently working on my DVH blaster build and your posts have been extremely helpful (along with about a dozen other awesome builders posts on this site)! Couple of questions:

1. How did you get your D-ring in without cutting apart the end cap? (perhaps you DID cut it...)

2. Did you have to heat the aluminum scope and counter rails/brackets before bending them?

 

Can't wait to see it with cylinders and all painted up!

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

Hi back everyone,

I’ve been away from the worldwide web for two months during my vacation, but it gave me the opportunity to finish my blaster (and also my armor btw). Most of the work was already done but I still needed to paint it and finish some extra-stuff.

 

First I received my power cylinders and had to clean and glue them. This is how they looked like once cleaned up:

I originally planned to stop here but then I told myself “you’ll certainly build only one e-11, so do your best man!â€.

Therefore, I looked for some gear in my attic and taking these ones as reference (http://i72.servimg.com/u/f72/12/31/04/96/power-10.jpg) I’ve added 3 central fuses & a winged piece in the middle and two nuts, a wire and a resistor at the back. I’ve also cleaned up the glue residue on the left side (noticeable on the pic above).

 

 

7.31.2013: “Painting timeâ€:

 

And my six resin t-tracks ^^

 

 

In addition to the spray cans, foresee a stencil because when you paint the blaster fully assembled, there're many places that the paint in spray won’t reach.

I sum-up how i've painted it:

• The main gun is flat black
• I’ve painted the t-tracks in flat black too
• Inner barrel is flat black
• Grip is gloss black
• Slight weathering on the exposed areas (front of the gun, magazine area, rear cap, folding stock wings)
• Brass weathering on the scope
• No weathering on the counter and t-tracks
• Inner bolt, spring, and some parts near the trigger area are boltgun metal.

That thing is really difficult to picture but anyway, here they are:

 

 

  

The glossy grip & some boltgun parts:

 

 

 

Here you can see painted the bit of Apple headset I glued to mimic the rear cap latch. I’m quite happy with the result, the illusion looks pretty good.

 

 

 

I’ve also added the wires. I remembered having read somewhere that one was blue and the other red but I wasn’t sure about it so I went with black wires (Edit: in fact, there's no blaster with wires in the film, only the promo blasters had ones).

 

 

 

   

D-ring :

 

 

And here you can see the trompe l’oeil I’ve done to make the lenses look like a real scope.

 

 

 

 

The counter plexiglass:

 

 

Right now I’m glad it’s over, but I’m sure I’ll miss it soon enough !

 

Cheers  !

Edited February 26, 2014 by The5thHorseman

[SorenM[TK]]

That is one great build!!!.......very nice attention to detail, and the scope paint job is really good....do or did you paint miniatures?:-)

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

That is one great build!!!.......very nice attention to detail, and the scope paint job is really good....do or did you paint miniatures?:-)

Ideed, i do have some experience in miniatures painting, even if i don't paint that much anymore as i'm always disappointed by my painting skill now.

 

Some links if you're interested in

http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics16/img522847c0a0930.jpg

http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics16/img5228484f79def.jpg

http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics16/img5228486f4c3fb.jpg

http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics13/img49fd9f3d63d6c.jpg

Edited September 5, 2013 by The5thHorseman

[SorenM[TK]]

ahaaa thought that the technique looked familiar. (eyes, gems etc ;-))..

Coolminiornot..I have some miniatures there as well, but like you I am rusty, so I do not paint that much anymore....unfortunately...

Nice miniatures!..

These are mine (maybe I should upload some more..).

 

http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Captain?browseid=6599736

[jkno]

Really nice E-11, congrats!

[sekullbe]

What's your inner barrel? Just 3/4" PVC? I'm getting back to working on mine and I don't have a part for that yet. 

[The5thHorseman[501st]]

This is a PVC pipe but i don't have any idea about its outer diameter. Using reference pics i just picked the one which look right to me but didn't take the time to mesure it.

 

[sekullbe]

OK thanks, I'll just pick whatever pops out of the scrap pile and fits. Somehow I don't see that part encountering a whole lot of scrutiny