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Small Update: Today my Hengstler Counter arrived. I had the unbelievable luck that just when I contacted "Blue Snaggletooth" he found a Hengstler Counter with metal box. Dennis: Thank you very much for giving the counter to me!! That´s it: I will paint all the parts together, until painting the counter will have a nice place in my showcase, For a second Blaster-Project I also bought one of his imitates. That is looking really great too and is much lighter. I guess that´s an advantage for trooping. Here the replica next to the original: That´s it for today. Here the Counter-Gallery: http://www.novakdimon.de/Novak%20Dimon%C2%B4s%20E11/Hengstler%20Counter/index.html Best regards from Germany! Christian

As promised a picture of my "tool" to remove the big ringnut and lens. The marked area is the part I will cut off to get a tool to remove the inner ringnut and the crosshairs. I also cut the whole thing by half. It´s too long for proper handling. (for the next scope ) Kind regards Christian

Hi Manu, I made a tool from a wllppaper-knife. That's a sheet of metal with a handle, I cut to the correct size. For the inner ringnut and the crosshairs i used a screwdriver but if I do the job a second time I'll make a tool for them too. Tomorrow I can post a picture of the "tool" I made. Cheers Christian

Part 1: M38 Scope The first part I got was the M38 Scope. I bought it at eBay and it came from Italy. The following markings are on the Scope : TELESCOPE, M38 M.H.R. CO. 1943 R.J.D. NO. 119766 That's the Scope "out of the box": Looking through the scope, I mentioned the crosshairs is 1st: mirror-inverted and 2nd: it's range scale showing to the wrong direction. I wanted to clean the scope anyway. Besides I'm a curious person and so I just started to take the whole thing apart to fix the wrong adjusted crosshairs. First I took of the original base: Then I unscrewed the small lens: Behind the lens is a spool piece. Underneath is a part with two prisms/mirrors. This part fits very well. First I removed the fore prism... ... and used the tightening bolt of the prism-block to carefully lift the block out of the scope. To do that use one of the threads the first prism was screwed with. There is no need to use force or a lever to remove the block. The rear prism is marked green. At last I removed the rear lens and the holder with the crosshairs which is assembled underneath. Nice to know: hidden under the paint are 4 small setscrews (you can see two of them on the picture above). The ringnuts and lenses are secured by these setscrews. They have to be removed first! After cleaning everything, the view through the scope is much clearer and because I turned the crosshairs all markings are readable and correctly adjusted. Perhaps this is not screen accurate but I think it's looking much cooler now. Was worth the effort, wasn't it? Here some additional pictures of the scope after reassembling: Depending on how the Sterling is looking like I eventually repaint the scope later to get a smooth look. Until then I leave it naturally weathered. Original sized pictures are in my Blaster-Gallery:http://www.novakdimon.de/Novak%20Dimon%C2%B4s%20E11/M38%20Scope/index.html Now I have to wait for the next parts to continue. Greetings from Germany! Christian

Hi Troopers, Here I want to share my project "conversation of a Sterling Mk4 L2A3 into an E11 Blaster" For a long time I only dreamed of it. Again and again I put it aside. "No time to do it", "that's too expensive", "what is it good for?" ... relented the "reasonable" arguments over and over again. But who wants to be reasonable all the time?! Enough of it! Let's do it! I started with research. I took my time until I made first contact to get the parts I need. I want to make a replica as accurate as possible, using only parts the blasters in the movie "A New Hope" were made of, if available. Besides I want to build myself everything else. For the power Cylinders I ordered a kit from Andy"PlayfulWolfCub". His Cylinders are the best ever! But I want to put them together myself anyway to challenge myself. Sources for the Sterling, the Hengstler Counter and the T-tracks are also known and some parts are already on the way to my place. I received a M38 scope from Italy last week and that's the part I'll start my report with. I made a gallery for all the pictures I'll take during the project: http://www.novakdimon.de/Novak%20Dimon%C2%B4s%20E11/ Have fun with my report! Cheers Christian