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Thanks for the links guys, some will be usefull... unfotunately the only plans i could find online were the ones on the empireprops website which were the incorrect ones (im not saying the original designer did a bad job they are very good plans) but i had to notice they just was'nt quite right. Not sure if ill ever do a run of them but you never know i may get bored at some point in the near future lol.

I spent a while today looking for plans to build an MG34, i found some but they didnt look quite right to me so i found a few good pictures of a replica MG34 on a WW2 re-enactment site and it seems the online plans are slightly wrong at the front so i re-did the plans for the main body and i thought id post them here to see what the very clever people of the FISD think ????.... please not too harsh its my first attempt at any plans. Refrence picture My outer body which i have split over 2 sheets to get the right size as i have allready started building.. (it has 3 pieces, 2 outer and an inner) ...its going to be big by the looks of it so far, like nearly 4 foot long (i think the original was somehwere around 46 inches)

Not much help to you but ive had this happen on motorcycle tanks when the top coat has reacted with the primer and 99% of the time the whole area had needed sanding back as the reaction keeps coming back on any topcoat applied over the affected area.

Looking good so far will be interested to see how it turns out when completed.

There are a few people in the UK making blasters it just depends on your budget, maybe have a look on evilbay or maybe if you do decide to scratchbuild you could get help from the uk members here, its not that hard to scratchbuild and even easier if you use resin parts.

I will keep my eyes open when out n about and on e-hell, and im sure youre allready aware but the pics and info are being passed around anyone and everyone to keep a look out for your armour/helmet. Hopng this gets found along with the little scummy ratf*!kedsonofabi!*h who took it grrrrrrrr makes me mad NOTE* i grew up in birmingham where this was stolen from and have friends there so have left this on facebook for them to read... To all my friends in Birmingham..there was a set of stormtrooper armour stolen from a really nice guy who was at a show at the NEC recently raising money for charity, if any of you see any being sold cheap in and around brum please get in touch with me, thanks.

Had some decent weather so i got some better pics of the blaster on its stand... ----------

Im not sure about the MR E11 but real sterlings have a spring strip on the back of the mag to stop them from moving around too much if yours has his too it may have become loose and may just require a bit of bending to get it holding again.

Wow what an excellent droid! i would love to build one of these but wouldnt have a clue where to start, if i ever do attempt it i will be coming back here for inspiration from your brilliant build.

Amazing build, I nearly went this route myself for my first build but when i looked at the toy E11 i thought "no too much work, would be easier to build from scratch"... Looks really good and soooo much better than the toy blaster you started with. :jawa:

I have taken a short video of the lights, folding stock... not sure how good the video quality is but it should give you some idea of the blaster and its functions.

Thanks guys, i will see about getting some video of it and post a link soon.

How i made my t-track was low cost and quite effective i think, i first got some of this stuff.. ----- this was from a DIY store here in the uk, then i simply cut the two outer uprights off creating a T which i think looks very good when painted see my E11 with this t-track-----------

OK ive made a few changes to this... it now has a red LED in the front of the scope and a scratchbuilt hengstler to hold the batteries and on/off switch (the switch is the counter reset button) and the "targeting sensors" which are again scratchbuilt from bits of scrap i had lying around from the main blaster build, i have also changed the folding stock pivot and the back cap to an all alloy one as the plastic one it had just didnt look "meaty enough" well i didnt like it anyway.

Joe if im in cornwall when you get the ukg down then let me know where and ill help with anything i can mate.

I see what you mean about the similarity but.... if you do some checking on that oil filter you will find out that its only slightly bigger than a large car oil filter and quite a bit smaller than the "screen used item" nice find tho. look at the pic showing the tank with the oil filter on the bottom and you can see its only hand sized, the other filter (fuel??) is only slightly bigger than this.

Trying to get my grubby paws on a V8 filter to see if i can cut it like this.......

I have just showed the screen cap to a friend who owns an old rover v8 sd1 and he says that it looks like the original filter to him too but he said "it looks like they cut the top edge in about 10/15mm at an angle for some reason?" maybe to disguise it a little or it could just be from something else that looks very close to it ?

Juan i can see what you mean but if you look at the link i posted above and click on the pic to enlarge you can just make out the top (rubber) of the item and it does taper slightly inwards, looks very close to an original rover v8 filter which would have been readily available at the time of filming and of course its a uk made part so easy for them to get their hands on in any number they needed.

I will volunteer my helmet (but not sure of its origins, it came via a friend of a friend for a stupidly low price so i didnt ask) which is now just waiting on lenses from smitty to arrive, hovis and decals i can send a pic if you like of it's progress so far but i think its looking great so far, and may be a good test to see if your decals fit others too.

The more i look at this the more i think it looks like the rover airfilter.. has anyone ever worked on an early Rover SD1 v8? i beleive this maybe the source for the part and having just looked through ANH there is definately the corrugated look to it with a rubber looking top and bottom, and having worked on these engines myself i would say its about the right size for the scrren used item and if its not its very very close. Check this link and look at the trooper on the right you can see where im coming from then.. click here

heres the airfilter i was talking about... Its used in a british engine that wouldve been around quite a bit when the film was made (Rover cars, Landrovers & rangerovers had v8's) so its possibly the one they used.

silly question ... has the top left item been identified, the thing that looks like a filter ?? i ask because it looks like the air filter element from an old rover 3.5 v8.

I am putting my first helmet together now too and i have found star wars helmets invaluable for refering back to whenever i got stuck, im building a stunt using the Dave M helmet for inspiration.

Ha ha ha love it well done that man.