Stratcat96

I cut out the void between the scope and rail only on mine and there is indeed a gap between the two halves. Can it be filled with bondo?

So I glued in the inner barrel and rear weight tube, but unfortunately the two halves are really mismatched. All the shifting around I just could not get certain pieces to line up. Not a huge deal, as I can sand and fill once we're all dry. Here's the inner barrel showing And here's how mismatched the barrel is Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On my gun, the top half of it was glued together as well as being screwed. I had to use a screwdriver to pry, and a little hand saw to work it open inch by inch. It was especially difficult to separate at the scope area. The two halves, at least on mine weren't matched up very well so I'm going to carefully reglue everything tomorrow with the painted inner barrel Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey everybody! While I, along with all the other new people, wait for our Anovos TK kits it occurred to me that any self respecting Stormtrooper would never be caught without his blaster. I had decided on a DoopyDoos resin kit, but they're never in-stock, so I have a buddy's machine shop working up costs to have a pipe machined out for a Phoenix Props build. In the meantime, I happened upon this little guy and thought it might make a fun little project, and an opportunity for me to test my building skills (which I really have none lol) I sure would love some opinions along the way, so please don't be shy. Here's the gun if you haven't seen one- It weighs in at about 10.45oz. I definitely want to add a little weight.. The first thing I did was take out the 8 screws holding it together. The gun consists of just two molded pieces. There were gaps between the halves, so I figured it was just screwed but as it turned out the top of the gun at least was glued too. I had to use a very small saw to work my way through to getting it apart.. One thing that bothered me was the molded on phony d-ring, so with my trusty saw I took it out. I left the plastic "mount" for it, because I will just drill a hole through it and put a real ring in once I glue it back together I want to drill out the vent holes in the barrel, but then to make that look good, I need to add an inner barrel. I decided to pick up a length of 3/4 schedule 40 pvc pipe. Figuring that will add some weight, I also wanted to add some weight to the rear. I cut the tube into two pieces, one for the front and one for the back. Since there are screw posts in the way of different diameters on the two halves I measured and drilled so they would fit right over the posts and clamp in place when the gun is put back together. The reason I didn't run a longer tube in the rear is because the center of the gun is blocked off by the counter box and mag receiver. I should have taken a picture with it in the other half.. Front- Rear- Next up, I clamped the gun half with the barrel vents and drilled them out with the drill press Not too bad, just a little cleanup on the vents with a file Now, placing the two halves back together the tubes lock back in place (they will be glued as well once I reassemble) and you can see the inner barrel from the outside Back together the weight is now just shy of 14oz, I'm not sure if I should add some more weight. I took the front tube out, roughed it up with some sand paper and wiped it down with mineral spirits. I sprayed it with some satin black krylon spray paint, and when it dries I can glue it in place and close up the gun. That's all I have time for tonight, to be continued! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I bought a couple of the Rubies E-11's to mod. Glue together, clean up, and paint with a nice weather job but these look very interesting... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk