Eldrik

Take a look at my photobucket album there you find pictures of a M38 and similar Scopes with the same mounting points! http://s1161.photobucket.com/albums/q506/eldrik_whs/Stormtrooper/

Michael the weapon is still deactivated because there are non working inner parts the visible parts were fully cut, separated plus welded through the deactivation process so it still serves the purpose of a deco weapon and so is legal that's what my local weapon department told me! If you exchange those parts and acquire working parts then you are really in trouble! It's sad but true that you can't be 100% sure if someone will interpret the weapons law against you when you own a weapon even it was deactivated that's what you have to keep in mind if you want own one :X

@Sergio the lever was welded from the deactivation work I only cut the welding points and it was moving again @Stefan not Bottrop they were located near my hometown in northern Germany it was really a lucky accident...

is it possible to drill out space from the grip to fit the soundboard in? The circuit board seems flat enough to fit in there!

Sorry to be offtopic but VFL Bochum Rich... Really

Look at my new shoes From the front to the back M38 1943 M77G M47A2 At this point I want to thank Jesse for being such a nice person getting them over to me M38 in a really perfect condition Back Front Front Side M77G Side Back Front Bottom Blaster action Also my power cylinders arrived Both the M77G & M47A2 will be for sale soon if someone wants to copy the look of a M38 keep your eyes on the sales section...

If you go screen accurate you better go with the 1,5mm because the 2mm acrylic capped ABS will crack. Other trooper can tell you if they feel any difference wearing screen accurate strapping or using snaps or Velcro for me the original strapping works like a charm

I bought it from dandbmilitaria.com

what a beauty

Is the ROTJ knee ammo belt position different from ANH & ESB? If not I would have aligned it deeper like shown on the LFL pictures I copied the look on my ANH build Despite the knee ammo belt your ROTJ suit looks sweet

Great looking !!

And it's lovely close to Germany

Shortened the magazine today this how it performed... Moving parts still usable In action

The story continues... Got myself a M47A2 on a French auction board... The M47A2 is equal to the M38A2 or M70G so with a little bit composite material you can make it the look of a M38 which I won't try because I even caught a M38 from 1943 and a M70G on an american auction board both for 80$ hope shipping goes well and expect it to land in about 2 weeks! So here are some new tryout pictures. M47A2 fixed on scope rail Just another view More detailed shot Did a test with the Hengstler and laid it down where it later will be fixed with the connection bracket To be continued...

Good work on that thigh ammo belt

Edit: Paul is much to fast with his answers

Stick with the lazzie band and forget about the use of velcro! Would have been more screen accurate if you had leveled the snaps on the belt all the same. Are you going for centurion? Then you will need drill out the snaps on the sniper plate and instead use glue for fixing them, also you could have lowered the knee ammo belt a little. For the drop boxes, have you riveted the correct side? My TM drop boxes back needed a more cut down to fit into the front facing drop box half. Could it be that you glued the cover strip on the left thigh (and maybe because off this also on the right) to the wrong side! The open side needs to point to the inside and yours looks like it points to the outside. All things I mentioned are easy to fix and behalf of this your armor looks good

like written in the sterling mk4 manual you have to drive out the pin that holds the inner sighting, just take a small screwdriver or something durable that fits in the small hole and hammer it out. You can fix it later again. You will know how to do it when you take a closer look at the pin and collars. I think they drive of the pin put in the rail and after that put the pin in again, so the rail is fixed and no movement is possible. For better maintenance and quicker switch of different scope rails I will try to search for some screws that copy the look of the original left and right collar.

A true piece of art!! Looks great, hope mine will look as good as yours!!

Thanks! I think i am on the right way with this method just need to find a better more accurate method to bend the rail for a better fit like it looks on the original pics. I will post pics tomorrow for a better view, the rail is self holding no screws or other fixing needed. I am glad if I can give something back to the community from which I already have received so much!

So here is my first attempt to align the scope rail I believe it was done back in ANH. Still not satisfied with my first version so I will further improve it but you can guess what it looks like :-) I tried to copy the alignment on the picture I got with Luke and his e11, you can see that little bend at the end and that the right collar that holds the pin is shimmering through. And some other shoots of the rail

I do not think that they used a wider rail. in my opinion they used exact the width of the inner rear sight that match the width of the first barrel hole where the rail is fixed also each have an width from around 11mm. I hopefully will receive a metal sheet today with an width of 11mm to prove my thoughts. Here is a picture with the inner sight removed and the open space thats left behind.

Thanks for sharing! Looking at those pictures I believe that they do not screw the rail directly to the sighting but rather removed the sighting and the underlying spring to carry the rail under the pin into the open area were normaly the spring resides. You can see in the pictures that the rail seems to bend at the beginning of the rear sight and you realy can't see the sighting I think what we are looking at is the pin. No sighting visible just the left pin? Rail seems to bend at the beginning of the rear sight Rail seems to bend at the beginning of the rear sight and you can see what I belive is the pin that holds the inner sighting If the inner sighting were still mounted no bend at the beginning seems possible to me.

Thx for the information, I will try to attach them this way... Can you give us an actual picture of your rear sight where the scope rail is mounted, from what I observed on several anh blaster pics I believe they did it in another way.

Really awesome work!!! @John how did you fix the T-Tracks on the Sterling? Did you use super glue or another compound?