BigBadaBoom

Great newsletter and very entertaining! Congrats Mark (CaptSafe66) on your appointment to Staff Member! You've been a great help to me on my path. Good to see the State Fair in the the Troop of the Month, wish I would've caught you guys there!

Took a couple days to hear from armorsmiths due to CVI and all. It felt like forever, but for the most part they are good at getting in touch with you and their information is pretty good if you ask for some. I'm pretty interested to see your build. Incinerator trooper has me interested as well. Maybe a build after I do my HWT.

Get a few pics you like. Start with a background, slap it into a paint document and tweak it to your liking. It's how I made all my swg sigs.

When I find some, I am going to light a white smoke bomb and put it in the barrel of the launcher to stain the vents with exhaust.

Put the finishing touches on tonight, and here it is! My final pics are in the first post!

Putting finishing touches on the launcher. Used some tennis racket leather tape to wrap the handle, placed my targeting lens, and am spraypainting my side panels with metallic blue touch-up paint.

How do you get ahold of Scifire to order something? Their site only takes me to a reference page with pics of blasters.

I'll check into scifire and the possibility of making one scratch. I might have parts to do scratch but I'd want to get my welder out to do it.

I am about to finish my minimal launcher and I'm just waiting for my doopydoos e11 conversion pieces to get here. Also I have until December before my armor should be ready. In the meantime I need a new blaster project and have decided to next build a DLT19 for my HWT. I have been window shopping for kits and stuff as well as looking at scratch builds. Kits are expensive but I've found that I can really rack up dollars in scratch projects too. So I'm asking your opinions. Doopydoos kit? Cushman kit? Or scratch build? Bear in mind I don't want something flimsy but something with structure and heft to it. (that's why I made my minimag 12lbs!). I plan on trooping with this weapon when my bazooka would be just a little too "much". Thanks in advance.

I was in a similar boat, talking with both AM and ATA. I decided to commit to ATA's wait list because of the screen accuracy and ability to make it centurion grade. I'm also not that big of a guy that I would need "big guy armor." I understand it's going to be a little more work with trimming and such, but it should be worth it. AM has a great product to offer as well. Their kit comes pre-trimmed and I understand from others that it is a fairly easy build to get your suit done and functional pretty quickly. It's all up to you and how far you want to go with your armor. Personally, I want to make my HWT as accurate as possible.

That's a really nice pack! I really like the storage case on the back too.

Great pictures! I'm jealous!

Wow! I know this post is a year old but I want one of those packs for my HWT! Someone please pm me some details or a link as to ordering! You look totally BA in that pic.

Yes

I'll try to look for something loud enough. I'm sure I'll have to have some help from locals to get a decent power supply in there as well as some green strobe lights. But I may never convert it fully. I've also found that I need to put a rhombus piece on the right and left sides. Gotta get some metallic blue paint. I also want to put a triangle piece lateral and posterior to the sight support to be more accurate to screen caps. There is also a handle to add for my own convenience. Since ive come to the conclusion that I can't ever put this thing on a pack because of its weight. Thank you so much for the encouraging input. This project has been my obsession over the past 5 days.

Anyone know of any good "explosion" or "rocket" sound chips and trigger system that I could put in this? Also I've been thinking about eventually putting in a couple bright green spotlights to flash through each end of the barrel when I fire. I just don't know anything about wiring something like that or electronic setup.

Definitely will come back to this thread in the future to make my HWT a T21. That blaster is AWESOME

I am also going to wrap the hand grip with some leather baseball bat grip tape.

Day 5 of building. Got my coat of black paint on it and just letting it dry today. When it dries I am going to attach the cable coil to the housing assembly and then I have to find a clear blue lens for the sight and some metallic blue hobby paint for the panel next to the sight. Thinking of maybe stenciling an imperial cog logo on the outside (right) side of the box to add a little more star warsy-ness. Final touch will be to cut off extra strips of duct tape hanging around and some light weathering with high-grain sand paper to show a little more silver along the rest of the body. ~98% done!

That sounds awesome! I'll definitely have to work hard on the backpack when I get to that phase. I need my armor first to make it fit to the back piece.

Happy anniversary! I hope to one day get my hands on a set.... Or to get them on my hands...hehe

HA! Love that final pic! Hilarious... plus I see that the bottle of water is half full....