Sly11

Nice work, don't forget to post a photo of the stand when finished

maybe then I should say."I find the lack of aerator, disturbing" LoL

Awesome Steve, congratulations

Have you actually glued the fore arm as yet?

obviously my statement above is based on the images of the real helmet and not the digital version above.

I find their lack of aerators disturbing.

Thanks Steve

I agree with Sith Lord, where were you a few months ago when I started researching and buying all of these things. Great resource.

I had them made as I needed a specific size to fit the stand. 60mm wide But ebay is your friend for Cog stickers if you need larger sizes

Like Vern said

Found the glue with primer pen that gazmosis recommended , works perfectly, that's one thing done for my TK, now where's my armour, in the hands of Australia Post, so hopefully next week is going to be a big one.

Very nice work Chris

Not quite finished, as it needs one more finishing touch.

I wanted to put some type of soft material on the support, so as to not mark the Blaster, luckily i have an 8 year old at home that loves making things. so i went for a forage through one of the crafting boxes and low and behold, we actually had some sticky backed felt material. this just couldn't be easier. Just cut it to size and peel off the back then stick it on and done.

Painting time

Glued nailed and puttied, ready for sanding The end supports are only screwed in at this stage, a little more putty and sanding and it will be ready to paint

Trial run with the wooden cut out, hence the tape at this stage.

So what good is having an E-11, if you cant display it when it's not being used for Trooping. I didn't want to buy the Doopy stand so i designed my own, yes it looks similar to the Doopy one, but it only cost me $3.80 for a piece of pine from the hardware store. The plans I made some templates out of cardboard to make sure the dimensions were good, and to see if it would actually work.

some close ups of the weathering. Personally I don't like to over do the weathering, as some natural weathering effects will take place through trooping

Weathering using dry brush method as mentioned in the scope section.

Piece in place, you can see i had already started weathering the blaster.

From this image you can see there is a large gap between the inner pipe and the out side of the barrel. of coarse the real depth would only be the actual thickness of the steel barrel, so I made up a piece of plastic to take up the difference. You can see the gap that will be filled with the plastic piece.

This is were it gets fiddly, you need to slide the pipe into the barrel, then screw the lever to the pipe while it is in there. I drilled a hole in the base of the lever, then screwed a bolt into it, cut it off to the desired length. Inserted the pipe into the gun barrel, placed the lever down through the side hole and the tricky bit.....screw a nut onto the thread tight, so the lever is locked in place. Trust me when I say, you don't have much room to play around in the back of the blaster.

moving on to the spring and cocking mech, this was a little fiddly, but by no means did I go to the extent that some of the better builds on here went. bought a short piece of irrigation hose which fit inside the barrel nicely, drilled a hole to be able to screw the cocking lever to, and CA glued a washer inside. The washer is needed as you need to counter sink the lever into the tube for clearance, leaving a rather thin bonding and screwing area.