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Rich this is coming on really nice , great work mate

Cheers Brain . Yeah that the intension, I'm hoping to do them complete or as a kit ,as I think lots of people would like the idea of building there own , there's something like 54 parts so for me to build them it's not a quick think to put together <br> I've just received the next batch of resin so will be mouling over the weekend when I get the odd chance , <br> Thanks again for your great comments

Thanks guys it be a long time to get here your comment certainly make the effort feel worth it all .<br> Chris I should have the next hopefully better moulded version to bring along to London .<br> I'm sure we did our Induction together last May as I believe you just about to apply for Centurion , if I'm remembering right

managed to finally get all the moulds and have cast a couple and built them now , still not totally happy with them as im still getting a few issues with the casting and have got to sort resins yet . it maybe a mater of different resins for different parts . So I've built one with a fix Bi Pod and one with a full working pod and am hoping the next batch I can resolve the issues . Cheers Andy

I get told all kinds of nonsense

Thomas don't pay any attention to what I said ,sorry mate looking back over your pics you've got it spot on .Top job

Thomas that is a Great set of armor ,brilliant job ,only thing I can see is your kidney and back plates are touching ,there should be a small gap , I know it's hard to achieve when you have a shorter body I had the same problem .But looks great well done

Congrats mate well desired

Jochen nice set of Armour well done

Very clever ,I like that

Hi Sean Not Yet ,I want to get a few all made so I can work out any troubles ,planning on building 10 to start with so by time I'm ready I should have everything sorted ,I will keep posting pics of the progress ,also got work out how much these have cost me build , Cheers Andy

Not to much a little bit of fine sanding on the seam were the mould splits . But getting a bit of trouble with the resin going off quicker than I was hoping . So it's making it differcult to pour the next mould I've done ,need to speak to suppliers

Ok its not much but had a chance to start making moulds ,so picked some quite easy parts to start with .Iv'e spent a bit of time this weekend making a few more moulds but as the silocone takes 24Hr to cure its not going to be quick job , but its been six months now so another few weeks wont make a lot of difference . here are the centre bipod mounts and one of the front mount. Iv'e decided to used black resin as Iv'e seen some cast DLTs and when the paint wears or gets chipped you can see the cream resin underneath ,Im hoping this wont be a problem with the black resin. also spent a few hours drilling holes in all the barrel sections . 520 holes later finished the main barrel section only another 80 to go

Hi Rich .That's what's next on the to do list ,just waiting for the silicone and resin to turn up

Hi Everyone I've have now finished making and painting the last of the parts . All the parts laid out now I just have to mould and cast all these bits I've also made a start on all the barrel pipe thats got to be drilled

Congrats Chris and what a great Centurion number

Good luck Chris, looks good

Coming along nicely mate keep it up

Made the rest of the Bipod parts now and it all seems to work well ,just waiting on some torsion spring to hold open the pod and hold it up on the clip on the underside of the barrel .Your right cant make them out of wood Used a mates lathe to make the pivot pin this will be drilled and I've got some split pins to secure with . I've also work out that the Bipod will be able to be moved to the centre mounting point aswell as the two collars below the rear sight have the same diameter grooves as the front mounting point ,and by making the the two small retaining plates that are screwed too the bottom of the barrel removable ,the bipod can be fitted in each position . some of the machining will have to be done once cast but it should be all be fully movable . There is one part that I can see I will need to make a four part mould to be able to get it .we will see :? .also added the rivet to the legs , nearly forgot Also while making these parts decieded to make the parts for a fixed bipod as not everyone will want a full working pod , these are two parts just put together but the part that fits into the barrel grove will be used for both version of pod .still need to give all these parts a few more coats of paint yet

Had a bad idea over Cristmas and decided to make the Bi Pod fully working , OMG what a lot of work and a total nightmare; this was by far the most difficult part I've made so far on this project .Total Respect to the guys who have made working Bi Pods . Anyway here is how far I've got .As you can see needed a bit of two pack filler when the part jump out my vice halfway through machining , beauty of wood you can allways make good on your c*** ups.

Congrats Marc great to see another UK Centurion

It's something I've had for many years now as I'm a builder and we sometimes have to make one off specials window and doors . I have a mate how has milling machine I've used before for other projects ,which is where I got the idea for using my Mortiser , but now I worked out how to make it work I'll be using it a lot more, but it still has its limitation . But having most joinery tools it certainly makes life easier making this parts .

Finished making front sight and what I thought was the smaller sight, but after making it and the sight mount the same as the original I realised its to stop the flash surpresser from undoing as its impossible to lift it up once the locating pin is fitted .I've again not drilled the locating pins as this will be done once cast . After chatting to Rich I decided to post a few pics of how I machine some of these parts , as it may be help to someone else . Im using my hollow chisel morticer, I remove the reducer bush and use a router extention tool in the chuck to hold the router tool . with this set up I've got a basic milling machine but it does allow me to machine nearly any shape , and even when there's a really small as these sight parts you can still hold them in clamp with some addtional packers ,as it would be very tricky to try to route bits this small , also mean you can get pretty acurate with sizing bits . Here i've showen how I machined a 2mm slot in the bottom of the bi pod mount to take the little plate that fit under the barrel , as it round it would be near impossible or very differicult to just use the router or even a router table .Hope this may help

Q looks and sounds Great , you're going to get loads of people wanting to play with DLT , and it looks like the DLT from the Rouge One has quite a few difference from the original , apart from the one you've mentioned ,just from the picture you posted ,no front sights or cooling hole on bi pod mounting point ,no wires on t tracks ,different t tracks , mid section has no seam where it should swivel or holding pin no cocking mechanism , on receiver cover it's far more square on top edge , lugs are different shape , no angle bracket on ejector port plate and no plate above ejector port , and no channel for cocking mechanism behind the grip , I'm not criticising it at all for being different but guess it will be classed as a Rouge One DLT and not to be trooped with a Hero or Stunt ?

Yeah sorry Rich not heard of cutting die so assumed you thought these were resin , these were machined through a router table . Not seen these post with comparable T track , so down to personal appinion then . In a way it's quite funny we all strive to make this things as screen accurate as possible , but more than 2 feet away and you wouldn't be able to tell between any of them