F44AA Romulus Pulse rifle 3d design and build

[dproc]

Absolutely stunning modelling and engineering work putting this together. Awesome work.

 

[paulsboutique]

Wow, that looks great!



Ah, I just rewatched that scene, now I know what you mean. I thought you meant it was moving in its closed position, but you mean that once the stock is opened the rear moves around quite freely. So does that mean your stock in its opened position will not be able to move from left to right to "simulate" auto aim?




That‘s too bad… I understand to a certain extent, but couldn’t that just as easily happen with .stl files though?
On the plus side, that means my own F44AA CAD project is still on. Can't wait to put my new modelling skills to work, I had to up my CAD game a bit modelling the M240 flamethrower in Fusion.

Cheers!
Roman

This first release it will be solid and no side to side movement, but as its quite modular, I'm sure ill revisit and look at a having ago at a moveable one a bit later on. My M41A file set has multiple stocks and shrouds as I've added to it over the years. I have some ideas looking at the expanded universe and would like to model up some under barrel attachments for the F44, perhaps a non Auto Aim stock as well.

Your M240 Sounds great, do you have a build log ? Id love to see how your CNC parts turn out.

 

[Xhiwar]

This first release it will be solid and no side to side movement, but as its quite modular, I'm sure ill revisit and look at a having ago at a moveable one a bit later on. My M41A file set has multiple stocks and shrouds as I've added to it over the years. I have some ideas looking at the expanded universe and would like to model up some under barrel attachments for the F44, perhaps a non Auto Aim stock as well.

Your M240 Sounds great, do you have a build log ? Id love to see how your CNC parts turn out.

The modularity of your M41A is indeed fantastic. Modular stocks etc. on the F44AA sounds great!
I haven't really kept up with the expanded universe stuff, so I didn't even know that different under barrel attachments are a thing.

Regarding the M240, I'll make a WIP post soon. I'm still refining my CAD model and have not yet had any parts CNC machined. I plan on 3D printing the main body in the same way schotti made his M240 main body from wood, and attaching all the metal parts to the main body. It's quite frustrating though, since not only is the shape of the M240 main body very "organic", but in order to accommodate the rear of the M203 heatshield, I need to create a cutout and a mechanism to hold it securely in place. It'll probably take me a while to finish this.

Cheers!
Roman

 

[paulsboutique]

A few redesigns for the torch and battery box.
I went away from a reed switch and have settled on a microswitch to break the 5v line for the torch.
The battery box is now fully assembled by screws and no gluing needed anymore.

I ran out of white ABS for the test print of the torch - ill reprint once my white rolls arrive.

 

[paulsboutique]

Two final updates to the CAD. The rear stock spring is now removable and screws together instead of being glued together, and the same for the auto aim spring. Also now starting to work on the electronics, so I've made allowances for a 3.5mm audio jack that can be wired up to take power, ground and signal to the front torch.

 

[joberg]

It's a beauty

 

[paulsboutique]

It's a beauty

thanks Joberg

 

[wtyler3]

This is unreal. So well done. I have your M41A files, and one day hope to have this version along side.

 

[Xhiwar]

That looks really great! And with pretty much all functionality of the prop! Very impressive.

Cheers!
Roman

 

[BushidoGrunt]

Awesome attention to detail Paul!!

I have your M41A Pulse rifle as a w.i.p the last while. I bought the files for this & your Motion tracker from Cults this morning to add to my projects.

Do you have a B.O.M for this yet??

Cheers,
Al.

 

[paulsboutique]

Awesome attention to detail Paul!!

I have your M41A Pulse rifle as a w.i.p the last while. I bought the files for this & your Motion tracker from Cults this morning to add to my projects.

Do you have a B.O.M for this yet??

Cheers,
Al.

Thanks for the support ! I have been focusing on the full electronics kits for the M41A, which i have finally ironed out all of the buggy issues. So while i wait for production runs, I will be getting back to documentation for this and the M314.

 

[Enohado]

Thanks for the support ! I have been focusing on the full electronics kits for the M41A, which i have finally ironed out all of the buggy issues. So while i wait for production runs, I will be getting back to documentation for this and the M314.

I wanted to ask because I read you saying this over on Facebook a while back, will you still make the M41 electronics/code open source?

 

[paulsboutique]

I wanted to ask because I read you saying this over on Facebook a while back, will you still make the M41 electronics/code open source?

The M41A electronics uses custom boards that i have designed. The source code is tailored to it and it wont be released. The F44AA will be based on an off the shelf c3 esp32 and I'll share the source code / sounds and bin files if needed. It will be in my github linked from my website once I get back to it.