Marc Wagner
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YES!!! Finally! You are awesome!!!
Print quality looks incredible, especially with the rollmarks. What are you planning for the paint? Something like Alumaluster?I just printed up the FRAME of the pistol. I still have to print the cylinder and paint everything. My life is in slow motion now, with me buying a house in Michigan and preparing to move. But I hope to get this painted and post pics soon.
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If this ends up in the Junkyard to help raise money for my move, I should point out that the trigger and hammer do NOT move. I wanted there to be NO confusion (especially when shipping) that this is a static replica.
Print quality looks incredible, especially with the rollmarks. What are you planning for the paint? Something like Alumaluster?
She's a lucky wife to get all that, great job on acquiring them all in just a year!Gave my wife these for her birthday. Made some boxes last minute. Prob do something else to display them, but wanted to finally share them after spending the better part of a year researching and locating everything. I ended up finding the 4" barrel for the H&R separately and swapped it out on one with the 2.5" which was apparently more common. I also removed the firing pin, just to be safe and so I didn't have to worry about it being handled (even though I have no ammo).
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I'm still missing the revolver from my own collection. Where did you wind up picking yours up?Gave my wife these for her birthday. Made some boxes last minute. Prob do something else to display them, but wanted to finally share them after spending the better part of a year researching and locating everything. I ended up finding the 4" barrel for the H&R separately and swapped it out on one with the 2.5" which was apparently more common. I also removed the firing pin, just to be safe and so I didn't have to worry about it being handled (even though I have no ammo).
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I just kept searching various seller sites that had "buy it now" options. I bought the 4" barrel first for like $30 figuring that if I located a decent 2.5" barrel version, I could grab that instead of trying to find the exact match as I had been looking for a while and had not seen many 4" versions. When I read that most were sold with 2.5", I decided to go that route. I thought I would have the FLL dealer that I picked th gun up from locally do the barrel swap, but they weren't interested so I looked up some videos on similar barrels and drove out the retaining pin, clamped it in a vise with some protection, and put a wrench on it. It takes a lot of force to remove and replace the barrel at the beginning/end as the fit is really close to get the start of the barrel in the right place near the cylinder and the sight aligned, but it's doable. I ended up finding the gun for $220 after looking for a while, so the gun, 4" barrel, FFL charge and shipping was about $300.I'm still missing the revolver from my own collection. Where did you wind up picking yours up?
That's very coolGave my wife these for her birthday. Made some boxes last minute. Prob do something else to display them, but wanted to finally share them after spending the better part of a year researching and locating everything. I ended up finding the 4" barrel for the H&R separately and swapped it out on one with the 2.5" which was apparently more common. I also removed the firing pin, just to be safe and so I didn't have to worry about it being handled (even though I have no ammo).
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