Truimphmark[TK] Posted October 10, 2014 Report Posted October 10, 2014 Rubber blaster build Hi Troopers here is a few things I've been playing with in the uk making a rubber blaster with Ali scope rail firstly I made a mould of a Kenner toy biker scout blaster for a test run on the rubber Then I made my own power cylinders with the help of a few trooper IE capacitors and ba nut and bolts cheers guys and then put it side the doopys power cylinders and then made a mould of the cylinders and cast a few out of resin rubber with no black pigment in it and a few with black pigment in them and made moulds of my real scope and counter Then looked at making a mould for my deact Stirling where I cut down the magazine and reformed the ends for the clip (OFF)to go back on Then set about puttying up the Stirling with none drying clay(plaster-seen) and wax paper smoothing down the parts to keep as much detail as I can then made a box to house the blaster in and putted the box out a hell of a lot of plaster-seen 8packs keyed the mould then set about pouring in the silicon mix once that was set pulled out the blaster cleaned up the mould then reseated the blaster in the mould then sprayed the mould with a mould release then set about casting the other side of the blaster Sod's law ran out of silicon mix knew I was on the boarders of running out of silicon so had an old ish mould so cut that up in to little chunks and poured half the mix in then put the chunks in then poured the rest in still only left me with the mag sticking out so bugger off to the shops for more stuff (sorry guys didn't take many pics of cutting down mag and putting up Stirling just got on with a few things) The one with the sliver rail is the E11 that I've made out of full rubber the other E11 are a rs prop masters,SDS and doopys will post up more pics as making a few and when fully finished ones to. 1 Quote
Tolo[TK] Posted October 11, 2014 Report Posted October 11, 2014 Looking good!! Sent from my iPhone 6 using Tapatalk Quote
Sly11[Admin] Posted October 12, 2014 Report Posted October 12, 2014 Nice work indeed. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote
Truimphmark[TK] Posted October 13, 2014 Author Report Posted October 13, 2014 Hi guys and girls here is an up date on the E11 it's self there are a few pleases with some air bubbles trapped but have reduced as best I can the arm of the folding stock hasn't come out as I hoped so will drill holes to suit apart from that very happy with it 1 Quote
Locitus[Admin] Posted October 13, 2014 Report Posted October 13, 2014 About time Europe gets their own rubber blasters. Now just to perfect them. Nice work! 2 Quote
paul mc Posted October 13, 2014 Report Posted October 13, 2014 Ok hi guys . I know the maker of these blasters very well. I have to say these are far better in the flesh. I have personally seen one up close and they are top notch and this only the first one he has made. I think Mark is going to do some very minor tweaks like putting real bolts in them as he is a bit of an perfectionist. But as they are at the moment I would be well happy with them. We have compared them to so many other blasters that we all troop with and Mark's blaster is right up there . So I will be placing my order. So finally we have a UK maker in unbreakable blasters. 2 Quote
Dday[501st] Posted October 14, 2014 Report Posted October 14, 2014 Mark, I ran across something that might help with your bubble problem... http://mynocksden.com/how-to-videos/ I'm not sure how rubber changes the process vs resin, but since you have a 2 part mold, something like this might be doable... Another way that I saw on Mynocks website was relating to when he is making molds, but can be easily used here. Instead of using a pressure cooker to work the bubbles out, when you're pouring, have the mold on something that its vibrating, like the spin cycle on a washing machine or dryer. This should help dislodge the bubbles as you pour and as the item cures. I"m considering doing that in my kit as well to remove some of the little bubbles that bug the crap out of me. 2 Quote
Truimphmark[TK] Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Posted October 14, 2014 Hi Derrek I'll have a look at the post you've put I've put attached orbital sander to the side of the box at the base and work it up and down and around the boxes and the last one to come out the mould was the best one to still have a few areas that need a little bleed which I'm working on and it's good to go ones again thanks mate Quote
Truimphmark[TK] Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Posted October 14, 2014 Cool that little vid a good one with resin you can spray mould release over the resin that gets out air that's trapped good vid tho Quote
tkjames Posted October 18, 2014 Report Posted October 18, 2014 beautiful pieces and really artful work. nice job Quote
Dennis[TK] Posted October 21, 2014 Report Posted October 21, 2014 "throwing money at screen" daum! Ok so when, where and how do you want my savings? ;-) 1 Quote
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