Zarlon

Good luck! It was a little intimidating at first but once I got going it seemed to work out ok. I'm sure you will do fine!

Ok I need some advice. I'm going to get the spray paint today and I know I want a grey primer and then silver for the base coat but for the black should I get flat or glossy? I'm planning on getting flat black unless you guys tell me differently. Also does any one brand work better than the others? Thanks

Looking good Tim! I found a heat gun yesterday in the clearance aisle at Wal-Mart but I'm going to hold off on an Iron to make sure I need it. My armor won't be available until early 2015 but I'm trying to collect items I know I'll need as I find them.

I made some more progress tonight. The first thing to tackle was the trigger. I wanted to shave some of it off to make it look more like the normal trigger but I might have gone a bit too far. I should definitely have enough room to fit a gloved hand in the trigger guard now. After the trigger I worked on the front end. The rest of the tip needed to be cut off in order to glue the new front end I received from Doopy Doo. I also wanted to get this part done so I can take it into work and decide which new LED light i'll be using. Next up...the front part of the scope needed to come off. And last but not least, it was time to grind off that pesky 6th T-rail. All in all it was a pretty successful night. I made a few mistakes but I think they can be fixed with Bondo and some sand paper. I'm still trying to decide if I want to try and find another trigger or just leave it as is. I'll sleep on it and make the decision later. No need to rush it.

Watching my daughter fall in love with the original trilogy when she was a toddler. Forget Barney and the Teletubbies, she would sit and watch the entire trilogy when she was six years old and cry when it was over because she wanted to watch them again.

Looking good Bryan! Someday I'll work on a pipe build but for now I'm just trying to finish my Hasbro mod. Good luck to you!

I also got another special package in the mail today. This one will require its own thread that I'll start as soon as the gun is finished. I'm so excited

Just got caught up on your build Tim. Its looking great! Can't wait to see the final results!

It was a busy weekend so I wasn't able to make any more progress. I did however, finally receive my DoopyDoo kit! I also found out from the engineer that fixed my gun that he has a nice bright red LED to go in it. He's going to replace the old one with it as soon as we figure out how to mount it.

You can do it Roman! Rick (Starfox2010) above is totally correct. In order to change you need to have the motivation to find something that works for you. It took me many tries but I finally found a program that worked for me. About 2 1/2 years ago my dad went through some issues that he was never able to recover from and eventually passed away. I decided then and there that I would make some drastic changes. I knew that diets don't work for me. I could lose weight easily but I'd always put it back on so I had to find something that I could maintain for the rest of my life. I knew that I needed to get my butt off of the couch so I started walking every day. That lead me into trying to do a little bit of running. I had friends that had run some of the Disney races and that seemed interesting to me. I have a bad right knee so running full time was out of the question but then I found the Galloway run/walk/run method where you run for a few seconds and then walk for a few seconds. I started to use the Galloway method and signed up for my first 5K in August of 2012. Since then I've run multiple 5K's and 10K's as well as ten Half Marathons and my first full Marathon in Disneyworld this past January. The Galloway method was the thing that clicked for me. Paying the entry fee for multiple races months in advance gives me the motivation to run and to reduce the amount of food I eat without depriving myself of the food I love. If I know I'm going to have an unhealthy meal or two I just increase my runs to burn it off. In that first year I was able to lose 80 pounds and I've kept it off for almost a year and a half now so it definitely can be done! Keep at it..If I can do it anyone can!

They try to keep a lot of the merchandise at the Theme Parks/Resorts to entice visitors to come back frequently. There are many items I wish we could buy online!

IT'S WORKING AGAIN! I brought it in to the office and one of our awesome electrical engineers was able to fix it. One of the solder joints in the top portion of the board had come loose. I feel much better now...time to continue the project.

Also, it was working fine just before I opened it up. Once I got it open is when it just stopped working.

Thanks Aaron...I do have a cheap multimeter at the house but a much better set up at the office. I'm going to take it in today and see if I can get one of the engineers to help me check out your recommendations.

OK here are some pics. I've tested the batteries and the battery connection and everything looks OK there. Any ideas on where to start my investigation would be appreciated.

Good Idea Tim! I'll do that as soon as I get home this evening. Thanks!

Well I still haven't found a solution for what happened to the electronics but I was able to make a little more progress on the gun. I took the Dremel to the scope rail and cut out some of the plastic to make it look a little more authentic. After I cut most everything I could with the Dremel I took to it with a couple different files to try and clean it up a bit. I still have a little more work to do but I think it's looking pretty good. The last thing I did for the evening was to finish sanding off the lettering on the side of the gun by the trigger guard.

OK I actually got some work done and I have some good news and some bad news. First up...the good news: I got the gun apart with little or no surface damage. The first thing I wanted to do before getting started was to peel the Star Tours stickers off. To do this I used an old trick I learned back in high school while working at the auto parts store. We would have to remove old price stickers and we'd use a lighter to heat up the glue on the bottom of the sticker. It worked here as well and I was able to salvage the stickers for re use on my tool bucket I removed the screws and then found out why It's such a pain to separate the gun in two. The first scope cap came off easily. I knew I could cut it off but I wanted to use is as a test case for the back half which would come next. I ended up leaving some scuff marks but I can fix those later if necessary. Up next was the back half. I gotta say that the other build threads were correct. This sucker did not want to come off without a fight! Next up was cutting off the orange tip at the front of the gun. I borrowed my wife's Dremel tool for this part and it was a piece of cake (She makes jewelry so I actually get to steal some of her tools ). Finally it was time to open it up. It was glued tight on the top at the scope rail but since I'm going to cut out the scope rail anyway, I started to cut into some of the plastic to see if I could get it to loosen up. It took a while but I was eventually able to pry the scope rail apart with an Exacto knife. Once I got the top apart it still wouldn't fully separate so I decided to gentle work the plastic while trying not to break it. After playing with it for a long time it finally came apart and come to find out, not only was it glued on the scope rail but it was also glued tightly around the speaker. This is where the bad news happened. I didn't crack or break any plastic but for some reason the electronics don't work any more. I've checked the electrical mounting points and everything looks to still be soldered correctly and I also checked the PC board which looks to be fine with no cracks or breaks to be seen. I'm not sure what happened so I have some research to do. As of now I'm tired and I'll let the research go on tomorrow. I'll look through the forums during my lunch break for possible solutions but in the meantime if you have any ideas as to how I can test everything, I'm all ears! Thanks

I'll definitely check out the links. Thanks! I am aware that some of the tools aren't necessary yet. I was rifling through Amazon and just couldn't help myself

Hello all, Another newbie here trying to find my way through this maze of becoming a member of the 501st I've been combing through the forums a lot lately and I think it's finally time to start my journey to becoming a TK. After reviewing the awesome information here, I've decided to go with the ANH Stunt Armor and I've placed myself on the ATA waiting list as well as the TK Boots waiting list. While I'm waiting for my armor, I'm going to try and complete some of the other items needed for my full costume. As you may have guessed by the forum that I'm posting this in, the first thing I've decided to tackle is the E11 Blaster. I have to start out by saying that I'm totally nervous about this entire project because I'm probably the least "handy" person you might meet. I'm usually the guy that calls "the guy" when things need to get fixed. That being said, I really do enjoy building models/landscapes when I set my mind to it, and I really think I can pull this off. I've noticed that build threads are a great way to get information and ask questions so that is the reason I'm starting my own thread. I'm going warn you ahead of time that I'll probably be asking a lot of stupid questions but I'll do my best to use the search feature both here and on the FISD forums before hand. Since I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing I decided to go the beginner route and purchase a Hasbro E11 Blaster off of Amazon. I also have the Doopy Doo conversion kit on order and I'm expecting that sometime in the next week. I also started putting together a binder with helpful information that I find, as I find it. I have a tendency to remember that something is important but I usually forget where I saw it so I figured this might come in handy. After I bought the blaster it was time to get some necessary tools. The lists available on these forums are great and after reviewing a few I ordered some of the things I knew I'd eventually be needing. Since I have some of the tools and a little bit of time I'm going to go work on pulling the blaster apart. Let's hope I don't break the thing!