Solidworks.. are you familiar with their fonts?? They do have a lot..
Solo’s Blaster/Carbine
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Solidworks.. are you familiar with their fonts?? They do have a lot..
Bobbyns
New Member
I have not used Solidworks since 2007 or maybe is was Autodesk Inventor. Would like to get more into modeling, just the cost of the software is crazy. Though I do have AutoCAD 2018 on my work computer
I believe I have the stamping all done..
Seeing if I can add some sort of pivot for the FH and BB..
Haha!! You’re crazy man, I love it!! I will gladly contribute a ball joint for this, either real Bandai P.C. or printed. This is SUCH a weird and cool idea!
Aside from that, your model is looking so very good, wow. I envy the fun of adding those little details, I love that stuff! I have not pored over your pics, but overall it looks spot on. So good!!
Took a little break but back at it. Carson’s lump..
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So I wanted to add Pats patch but I can’t get a good enough look at exactly what’s going here. The stunt blasters don’t seem to show much either unfortunately. If anyone has a better look please let me know, if not no worries..
deadbolt
Sr Member
I'd really love to know what they had there on the Hero and in the same exact spot as the Merr Sonn blasters as well, Pat's Patch may be the greatest mystery of all! We have no photo reference whatsoever of what greeblie they intended to be there on either blaster.. I really doubt it's a plug greeblie since the Merr Sonn already had one up top, so...?
This is the best photo I've seen of the Hero Pat's Patch, courtesy of our mystery Hero:
Looking good as far as the Lump is concerned too, though I did notice that the very bottom of the Hero's lump has a small radius transition into the Mauser's side-rail, and the Mauser's pre-existing radius (the large horizontal one below the lump at the very end of the rail), appears to be flat rather than a large radius as per the Left-Side and the Right-Side of every other Mauser we've seen. It seemingly had been redone during the addition of the lump.
-Carson
This is the best photo I've seen of the Hero Pat's Patch, courtesy of our mystery Hero:
Looking good as far as the Lump is concerned too, though I did notice that the very bottom of the Hero's lump has a small radius transition into the Mauser's side-rail, and the Mauser's pre-existing radius (the large horizontal one below the lump at the very end of the rail), appears to be flat rather than a large radius as per the Left-Side and the Right-Side of every other Mauser we've seen. It seemingly had been redone during the addition of the lump.
-Carson
Davy Jones
Sr Member
Pats patch?
..though I did notice that the very bottom of the Hero's lump has a small radius transition into the Mauser's side-rail, and the Mauser's pre-existing radius (the large horizontal one below the lump at the very end of the rail), appears to be flat rather than a large radius as per the Left-Side and the Right-Side of every other Mauser we've seen. It seemingly had been redone during the addition of the lump.
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-Carson
Thanks for the photo! It’s really hard to see exactly what is happing there to be honest. I’ll mess around with it and see what I can come up with.
For the lump I think I see what ur saying. I’ll play with that as well. That should be pretty straight forward, especially with that 2nd close up pic of the stunt blaster you shared. You can see the flat. Thanks Carson!
The chip and dent on the left side of the upper receiver. kpax I believe originally pointed it out hence the name “pats patch” but I could be mistaken??
Davy Jones
Sr Member
Edit: nevermind
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deadbolt
Sr Member
Anytime, buddy. You have the same drive we all had back when, I'm just happy that people these days still share it too!
I think with your increasing skills in modeling, this can make for the best replica Mauser for ANH thus far, easily.
Keep at it!..it's well worth it sharing your passions with fellow, true fans of the community(s) like the RPF, rather than counterfeiters pushing off a 1/4 real (at best), fake as being real and the naive millionaires falling for it despite the simplicity of a Google search.
I just spoke today about the subject with someone and I was (and not at the same time, which is a bit of a a conflicting feeling to have) surprised to hear, despite my points made on the factual-side of the research of this prop many of us here have proven over decades, he simply said.."well, it has a certificate of authenticity..". I just couldn't continue the conversation after that statement. A surprising amount of people just don't want to hear, see or acknowledge anything other than what they 'saw on television', so-to-speak.
-Carson
Thank you Carson. Its been a really fun project to obsess over for the past few months.
The biggest problem with regards to these blasters I believe is that there are so many varieties of this Han Solo dl-44 even throughout the OT alone. If you think about it Solo is seen with 2 in ANH, 2 at least in Empire and two more different ones in Jedi. All technically the same blaster by the way. Then throw in all the Master Replica versions LucasFilm licensed out,. That’s 3 more Solo blasters and each of those inaccurate to what they are suppose to represent and reflect. Thats not even including Luke’s DL-44’s or confusingly renaming Luke’s a Merr-Sonn 57. Oh ya and then throw in the resin blasters to boot. Even the most loyal fans start raising eyebrows.
Add all that up it becomes truly exhausting for almost anyone let alone the people who simply want Solo’s blaster. “What do you mean there’s more than one?!”. It’s also probably one of the top reasons that makes this blaster so darn fascinating. Once you start peeling back the layers it doesn’t really stop.
It’s also probably the main reason why a certificate of authenticity is so valued in the uneducated’s world. Unfortunately their trust and value is misplaced sadly. Throw in the money that can be made off SW memorabilia and everything can get twisted really fast. The truth is always overlooked especially when someone stands to make a dime.
Someone should write a book on the subject. But sadly within that book I’d fear certain narratives would emerge and opinions would be taken for facts. Hell we’d be right back where we started. Truth is, as you well know, there are still many mystery’s around all these dl-44’s yet to be solved. The biggest one right now.. how someone would spend 500k on a prop that contains only a fraction of what it claims to be. Crazy and still within that same narrative that PS blaster does have Solo’s ANH authentic scope! Top rings as well but the scope.. that is IMHO 100% the real prize. Sadly only a few will really know, understand and truly appreciate it’s value. As a wise man once said “that belongs in a museum”.
That’s where CAD, machining, 3d printing, creativity (you name it) all comes in. I can only speak for myself but I’m sure many a members here feel the same.. since these authentic (fully or in this PS case quarterly) film props are out of most our budgets it’s nice to know in todays world you’re really only limited by ones own imagination and desire to create
The biggest problem with regards to these blasters I believe is that there are so many varieties of this Han Solo dl-44 even throughout the OT alone. If you think about it Solo is seen with 2 in ANH, 2 at least in Empire and two more different ones in Jedi. All technically the same blaster by the way. Then throw in all the Master Replica versions LucasFilm licensed out,. That’s 3 more Solo blasters and each of those inaccurate to what they are suppose to represent and reflect. Thats not even including Luke’s DL-44’s or confusingly renaming Luke’s a Merr-Sonn 57. Oh ya and then throw in the resin blasters to boot. Even the most loyal fans start raising eyebrows.
Add all that up it becomes truly exhausting for almost anyone let alone the people who simply want Solo’s blaster. “What do you mean there’s more than one?!”. It’s also probably one of the top reasons that makes this blaster so darn fascinating. Once you start peeling back the layers it doesn’t really stop.
It’s also probably the main reason why a certificate of authenticity is so valued in the uneducated’s world. Unfortunately their trust and value is misplaced sadly. Throw in the money that can be made off SW memorabilia and everything can get twisted really fast. The truth is always overlooked especially when someone stands to make a dime.
Someone should write a book on the subject. But sadly within that book I’d fear certain narratives would emerge and opinions would be taken for facts. Hell we’d be right back where we started. Truth is, as you well know, there are still many mystery’s around all these dl-44’s yet to be solved. The biggest one right now.. how someone would spend 500k on a prop that contains only a fraction of what it claims to be. Crazy and still within that same narrative that PS blaster does have Solo’s ANH authentic scope! Top rings as well but the scope.. that is IMHO 100% the real prize. Sadly only a few will really know, understand and truly appreciate it’s value. As a wise man once said “that belongs in a museum”.
That’s where CAD, machining, 3d printing, creativity (you name it) all comes in. I can only speak for myself but I’m sure many a members here feel the same.. since these authentic (fully or in this PS case quarterly) film props are out of most our budgets it’s nice to know in todays world you’re really only limited by ones own imagination and desire to create
Thank you (I think)
One nice thing with this PS blaster is it’s allowing me to measure up this scope. Looks pretty good scale wise..
One nice thing with this PS blaster is it’s allowing me to measure up this scope. Looks pretty good scale wise..
Took a little bit of a break away from this project but now.. I think it’s done. Time to get everything ready for printing..
deadbolt
Sr Member
Beautiful work bud, it looks fantastic. I always loved that V spring there, it serves 3 purposes and was the only spring I just had to model simply because I loved it for some odd reason..
Can't wait to see what these all look like once printed! What material are you aiming for as far as the springs?
Also, any thoughts about having them machined at all? Just curious, not pushing towards it or anything...if so, just watch out for who your machinist is.
-Carson
Can't wait to see what these all look like once printed! What material are you aiming for as far as the springs?
Also, any thoughts about having them machined at all? Just curious, not pushing towards it or anything...if so, just watch out for who your machinist is.
-Carson
Thanks Carson!
I’d still love to chat sometime when ur free to put some of my insecurities behind me with how all this is going to work. The springs and screws will be actual springs and screws as much as possible. I bought some springs and designed the parts around those so hopefully that works out.
I’m going to prints the grips screws though as I couldn’t find anything that would work appropriately. But I’m doing something with those screws I’ve never done before and that’s printing them with the threading already designed into it.. so it will be interesting. That V spring will be interesting as well but both should come out fine. Everything will be printed in MJF which will cover the strength, tolerance needed for each. The only issue with MJF will be the lettering and numbering details. They might come out a little soft?
As far as machining well that’s probably a little out of my league but I’m sure with the guidance from likeminded, good natured folks like urself anything is possible. ? Also as far as who to trust.. well I’ve learned (unfortunately the hard way) at least who to avoid that’s for sure.
Here is all the parts broken down for this model (except the scope, mount, HSG and such - those are all individual as well). Kind of fun to see it this way..
I just need to do the tedious task of orientating the parts for printing to avoid melt pooling. Something similar to this (TFA flash hider)..
“Almost there..”
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