Sabyre

Ok, on this part of the build I decided to make the pins to place in the bottom of the parts that go on the barrel. I used small nails cut down to size for the pins. The parts I used this on include the grip, folding stock latch, rear sight, and mag housing. The flash guards, I felt, were too thin to attempt to so this with. The front sight sis not have much room On it due to the nail head that was counter sunk in it for the sight pin. The parts I did make pins for, I did by setting them on the barrel and outlining them. I then placed the part on a piece of paper and traced it. I cut the outline out of the paper placed it on the part and drilled 2 to 3 holes for the pins. I then placed the paper on the barrel, lining it up in the outline I traced of the part and drilled the corresponding holes. I then placed the pins in the part and test fit it to the barrel. The folding stock I did differently. I did a layout on the hinge points to find center and drilled a hole for the pin. I then did a layout on the hinge mount on the barrel and drilled a hole on both sides. I then cut the pins down and placed the folding stock on to them. Not shown in the pic is the pin I placed in the front of the folding stock and barrel. I placed a pin right were the folding stock rests on the barrel. Here is the grip location. I cut a piece of 3/4 pipe and placed inside for an inner barrel. After tracing the grip I drilled a hole through the grip, barrel, and inner barrel for a screw. I placed this screw in the small area the front of the trigger guard later goes. The screw will go through the inner barrel to help hold it in place. Since the trigger guard will go in the same location as the screw, I counter sank the hole so the screw would not be in the way. Here you can kind of see the screw head sits flush. Here is the grip set in pace after the pins were installed. Here I placed pins and sat the stock latch in place. Here I set pins and put the mag housing in place And here is how it looked to this point. After admiring it for a few moments, and running it up stairs an showing it off to the wife and kids, I took everything back off. I did not get any pics of the pin process. As I was not sure if I would even do a build thread, my documentation was extremely lacking. Also, when I get going on something my inpatients sets in and I forget to take pics. lol.

After letting the milliput set and harden over night, I began sanding it down until I was satisfied the original shape was achieved. Some of these pics are blurry, and for that I apologize. I had to so some initial sanding with finer grit paper to remove the rough spots around the corrected areas, not shown in the pics. Once I finished cleaning up the barrel, it was time to attach the bolts. I originally tried to place the whole bolt in the end, but they would not set properly. Instead, I opted to cut the threads off and just affix the bolt head. I applied E6000 to the bolts heads and barrel, pressed the bolt heads in place and cleaned up the excess glue that squeezed out. I then plashed this aside to let it set. The right bolt head, as you look at the pic, was a little tough to get in to place. It just barely fit in to the cut out and kept wanting to slide backward into the barrel. I then moved on to the mag housing. Not much to do here. I ordered a new mag from Gazmosis to replace the poor one that came with the kit, so the only thing I had to do at this time was replace the set screw with a real one. I started by finding a bit that just fit inside the resin screw and drilled a pilot hole to keep my center as I drilled the rest out. I then moved up to a size just larger than the real screw that was to be added. I drilled down, then test fit, a few times. Once the screw sat to my liking I was ready to glue. I dropped in some E6000 and set it in place. I then decided to clear out the channel in the d-ring retainer. Again, not much to do here. I ordered the d-ring from Sonnenschein, so I couldn't get to the exact with until I had that in hand plus the ring sizer to put around it ( another one of the many tricks I picked up from Dark CMF 's build thread). In the mean time I just opened the middle up to be flush with the outsides. Once again, I didn't get a pic of how it looked after I cut it out. Once the d-ring arrived I did have to take out a good bit more to get it to fit. The ring it's self fit fine with room to spare, but once I put the ring sizer on to keep the d-ring from flopping around, more room had to be made.

Here I started off with the latch. Nothing great, just cleaned out the recess. I then moved on to the bottom of the grip. Had to replace the bolt in the bottom with a real one. I bought a package of M6 socket head bolts that match up real well. I started off by finding the center of the resin bolt, as best I could, and drilling a pilot hole with a small bit to keep my center as I counter sank the hole to fit the whole bolt. To avoid cutting the threads off. I drilled the larger hole first till it was deep enough for the head to sit flush. I then used a smaller bit to drill the hole for the threads. I placed a little bit of E6000 in the hole and pressed the bolt in. Now to do the same with the bolts in the barrel. I used the same procedure for this as I did the grip bolt. Find center, drill small hole. Then, drilled out the resin bolt head. This part was kind of touchy. There was no meat on the out side to keep the bit frog wanting to wonder off, and the bit did not quite fit in the recesses near the middle of the barrel. So I ended up with this. Resin bolts drilled out and some chipped recess edges. Kind of a sick feeling as your drilling it out and you see pieces pop off of places they are not supposed to, but now your committed. To late to turn around. Lol I read in a few of the posts about using miliput to fill in hole and fix mistakes. That's the direction I went to correct this problem. I put it on rather thick to make sure there was enough to sand it down to the original shape. Once I was satisfied enough was in place, I sat it aside to harden over night.

I've been watching this since it was first posted, and support this effort wholeheartedly. After getting the never ending bills taken care of for the month, I went and did my little part to help. We have a great group of Troopers around here. I have no doubt this will get done.

Here, I will work on the front sight and folding stock. Here is the front sight before I cleaned it out to look a little more like the real one. You will also see the nail I will cut down to make the sight pin. I started by cleaning out the extra resin so you could see through it. I then cleaned up around sight base to square it up a bit more, drilled the hole n the sight base and cut the lot into the bottom. My original thought was to place a small set screw in the hole in the base. However, I eventually talked myself out of it. I did not cut the hashes into the sight guard either. I didn't feel confident enough to attempt this without screwing it up beyond repair. I then drilled the hole for the nail to fit in fairly snugly. I also counter sank the bottom for the nail head to set in flush. Sorry, this pic is out of focus, and I can't find the one showing the counter sink on the bottom. Once I was satisfied with the way the nail sat in the guard, I cut it down to size, beveled the edges to thin it down and cut the 45degree angle on it. After test fitting and checking it over, next to the real one, I used two part epoxy and glued it in. Next was the folding stock. Not a lot to see hear. Pics don't show it real well but, basically all I did was clean up the excess in and around the holes. I tried to bevel the sides of the tube a little, but it didn't make that much difference. Here, I decided to try my hand at cleaning out the opening for the sliding lock. I thought I had a good pic or two showing the rough finish, and the final result after rounding and filing the edges. I, however, couldn't find them, so I cropped this pic to kind of give you an idea. I'll try to get some more pics up a little later.... Thanks.

Thanks Aaron, I am a welder/fabricator. Building things out of metal, no problem. This is my first time working with resin, so it was a little nerve racking. You can't fix a mistake with a welder and grinder. Lots of measuring, marking, double and triple checking alignments, and still had to convince myself to make the cut or drill. agreed 100%.

Hey Tony, that sounds great. I just bought a couple sets from Hytechtoys, and at $80 a piece that hurt. I will be needing another set here before too long so I'll keep watching.

Full Disclosure: My blaster is already finished for the most part. I will apologize in advance. There are a lot of pics missing, but I will post what I have. There are many great build threads hear. I did a lot of research reading through many of them. I took some ideas from a few of them, two in particular. Dark CMF 's build was very helpful and well laid out. http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/26179-a-small-slightly-beat-up-brown-box-arrived-recently-doopydoos-full-resin-anh-e-11-build/. This is were I repeatedly turned for answers. I am a very hands on person. No matter how many reference pics I looked through, I just wasn't satisfied with how things looked. What I needed was to get my hands on the real thing. That's when I found Usaeatt2 's build thread. http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/26960-e-11-steel-pipe-build/. I bought the deactivated sterling, and now have real parts I can look at and a project for later. So let's get started. I'll start with the extra parts used: 1. D-ring from Sonnenschein. http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/8047-metal-d-rings-for-your-e11/ 2. Replacement Mag from Gazmosis http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/26677-doopy-dos-replacement-e-11-magazine-run-7-now-open/ 3. M-19 hybrid scope from Striker http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/26652-new-scope-molds/ We'll start off with the mandatory brown box arrival. The tangible start to the journey down the path to white armor bliss. It was like being a kid on Christmas all over again. had to lay everything out and see what I was in for. I bought the Doopy and the holster from Trooper Bay. They came in the same day. Did a quick mock up to see what it might look like. After a bath and scrubbing in the sink. ( pics I didn't take). It was time to get busy. I started with the grip, trigger and trigger guard. I freed the trigger from the guard and finished trimming and cleaning all three pieces. I started by placing the trigger in the grip and outlining where the grip sat on the trigger. I then placed the trigger on top of the grip, lining up the mark as best I could, and outlined the trigger. This gave me a rough idea where to drill. With the trigger in the grip, I drilled through till I got half way, roughly, though the opposite side of the grip. I then took a spring out of a pen, laid it on top of the grip and outlined it. Sorry for the fuzzy pic. I paced the finishing nail, I will use later in final assembly, in to check an see if the spring was in the right place. I hoped! I then placed the trigger back on top of the grip and transferred lines from the spring outline to the trigger, and drilled a hole in the trigger for the spring to rest in. After I convinced myself I was right. I removed the trigger and transferred the line over to the inside of the grip. I then used this reference mark to drill the hole for the spring. I tested this set up several times. I continued drilling deeper into the grip until the trigger sat where I wanted. I then moved on to the selector switch. I placed it about where I thought it would go and outlined it. Keeping it in the outline I moved it to all three positions making sure it still looked right. when satisfied, I drilled a hole in the grip and the switch. I cut the head off a finishing nail and put it in the switch. After I paint it, I will cut it shorter for placing in the grip. More to come........

I purchased a couple sets of these last week. Learned about them on your thread, Tony. I wasn't quite sure if they were the same ones, glad to have the confirmation.

I bought mine from Tandy's web site. No logo...

Very cool.

I am a welder/fabricator. Kinda boring compared to some of the other jobs I've seen here so far.

http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/29145-imperial-snowtrooper-tm/ This is a link to a forum he started. Hover over his avatar and contact info will pop up. Click send a message and your in business.

I got my nick name off of the first Fable game I played on Xbox. It was the name of my character, and I liked it and have used it every since. Kind of a short boring story. Great thread!

I contacted Rob on the first of January to get on the list, and my expected completion date is in September. Hopefully, as Tim said, You will get good news.

That's awesome. Love the idea. Don't like what my NFL team was changed to. Lol

That looks great. I guess I know where to go for armor now. I would like to build a Snow Trooper after I complete my TK.

Awesome work man. I can't wait to see the rest of them.

Good luck brother. I started using an E-cig to quit smoking. It will be one year this Valentines Day, which is my daughters birth day, and I don't miss the real thing. I was smoking two or more packs a day, and had tried to quit many times. Every time I quit, I would be doing ok at first but then I would smell it from across the parking lot, watch my friends smoking, get stressed or aggravated, or worse yet go out drinking. I couldn't have a single beer without the need for a cigarette. With this E-cig, not only do I not miss or feel the need for a smoke, but now I can't stand the smell of it. I had to scrub my tuck down because of the smell. Keep up the good work brother it's worth it. I'll be pulling for Ya.

Done Thanx for posting this Tim.