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Stormtroopers of all sorts carried this blaster, which is
identified as a "Blastech E-11" & was based on a British
Sterling submachine gun.
There are several ways to get a nice looking E-11: Mod a
real Sterling, build one out of PCV, buy a resin replica, or mod a Hasbro
blaster. I chose the last option because I got a good deal on Ebay. |
This is still a work-in-progress, but here's how I'm making mine:
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Here's our goal, a good-looking E-11 blaster prop to go
along with my armor. |
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And here's the starting point: 2 Hasbro E-11
blasters from a few years back. I guess Kenner made some nice
black ones back in the day, but this is what we're left to work with. |
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Step 1: Wait for the blasters to arrive. With
any luck I'll get it right the first time & be able to sell/trade the
extra away to another trooper.
They've arrived! Click for a larger pic.
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UPDATE!
Since I'm in a Halloween rush I decided to make a quick prototype out
of one of the Hasbro blasters. I started by lightly sanding down
some of the copyright info from the plastic. I didn't do a great
job, but I plan on fixing this at some point.
I then used some electric tape to mask off the following sections:
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the front of the orange tip(so that it will still
light up)
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the two "vents" on the tip so that the LED
doesn't get painted
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the screw for the battery compartment
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Once everything was masked I gave the whole
thing a "primer" coat with this metalic-chrome spray paint I had
laying around.
When the chrome had dried I gave it a coat of the gloss-black I had
used on the helmet pieces. Before that had totally dried(it was
still a bit tacky) I weathered the blaster by lightly dropping/dragging it
around on the sidewalk. The effect was that the black paint was
removed leaving the metalic layer showing. i.e. weathered!!!
Overall the black is a bit too glossy, so I'll either sand it all down
a bit or just wait until I redo the whole thing. Not bad for a first
try if I say so myself. :) |
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more on the way eventually... |
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