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Okay so here's my swing at the blaster:
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Sidenote - did the blaster get a name designation anywhere, or are we just calling it the "Episode IX blaster" for now?
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4 hours ago, The5thHorseman said:
I already had this effect happening to something I was painting, but with a regular spray can of white paint. Basically it's a reaction that happens when you don't lay your paint properly. For me it was because I laid a top layer of paint that was far too thick and before that the previous underneath layer had had enough time to settle.
The parkerizing effect is interesting nonetheless. It reminded me of the paint some used for their e-11 blasters. But the pattern you get is quite big, and I'm not sure you can reproduce it reliably every time.
Yeah! Talking with some friends it seems that this is due to overcoating with paint, however that was specifically in the instructions for the coating i was trying out to over-coat with paint and then polyurethane spray immediately after. Apparently its more likely to happen on parts with infill facing upward because of the individual extrusions of infill that the paint grabs onto when it's drying.
That combined with the polyurethane gave a really solid feel to it though which makes me think it would be great for replicating this in the future with different projects that might call for a texture of this sort. Perhaps an object that needs a little bit of "grippyness" or a leather kinda look in the future, this would work well with.
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I've been experimenting with different coatings for my parts and came across a suggestion to use polyurethane and plastic bonding spray paint combined quickly. Much to my surprise, it left a very interesting (almost leather-like) texture to the part...
This is a part off the new blaster specifically, which is why it's a little relevant here.
I should have something to show by wednesday or so.
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13 hours ago, The5thHorseman said:
Not sure what you're meaning here. Both the TFA and TLJ SE-44C are based on the Glock 17 (Gen 3 if I remember right). Actually the TLJ blasters use practical airsoft reproductions of the Glock 17 instead of a custom made Glock like the TFA. And I wouldn't be surprised if the Sithtrooper's blaster were using an airsoft Glock too.
It has admittedly been awhile since i looked over your pistol models but i seem to recall they were based off of the glock 19 frame. I dont personally own a g19 but ive handled many and thats what it closely resembled with the shortness of the grip. Perhaps you have updated the models since. Either way, i'm using a different g17 model to base the grip off of.
Theres definitely some differences between the toy and the blasters shown at SDCC. Again, for now i'm heavily basing my model off the toy as i think that's probably the best bet for most of the detail, but definitely taking some of the cues from the pictures ive seen from SDCC as well.
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re: Germain, I saw your reply and can assure you none of whatever models you put out for the pistol will be used in mine. There's actually some distinct differences here, such as I noticed they went with a glock 17 pattern grip rather than the g19, so your models wouldn't be terribly helpful anyways.
So far the most detailed images Ive been able to get are the hot toys model youtube video gmrhodes linked a page or two back. Those have been incredibly helpful with my modeling, however a big problem occured to me.
We've seen stuff in the past where models like these that are included with toys have several inaccuracies, and i'm noticing a few different details that are different between the blasters included in the hot toys model and the ones carried by the sith troopers at SDCC. I will say my current model is heavily based off of the toy replica since there's so much detail to be had off that version.
Perhaps if I do a run of these blasters, I may consider releasing a version now that's as accurate as I think i can get between all the images from SDCC and the likes, and then later after december or whenever we can get some confirmed 100% accurate footage/images of the screen used props, I can go back and fix the model and re-release another version with the fixes. And I was kicking around the idea of giving the folks who order the pre-release version a 50% discount off the post-release version, this way there's somewhat of a 'psuedo-deposit', if you will, on the post release version. That way you can have the option of having something sooner thats as accurate as it gets, and then have something later that will hopefully match everything on screen.
I've been spending literally every minute of free time I have (which these days is slim) on this model and I'm very happy with the progress i've been able to make. Definitely getting close, hopefully should have something to show within a week or so and when I do it'll be a physical 'prototype', not just the model.
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Interesting how the SDCC sith troopers "box things" on the bottom of the blaster near the handguard seem to be greyed out, but the promo photos show some detail like wires or something.
Any and all high res pictures of the blaster are appreciated. Ive put a lot of work in whipping up a model this past week and look forward to possibly doing a run of those.
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I've already begun work on a 3D model for the blaster, the second I caught a glimpse of it yesterday. Will see what I can cook up in the little free time I have. Doesn't look like there's any good images of the right side of the blaster for now so i'll be interested to see what the other side looks like in the future.
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If anyone is still interested in this, I am about to run a flash sale here at some point this month with this pricing.
I'm giving you guys first dibs though before the other orders swarm in, use promo code FISD50 to get 50% off either the regular F-11Ds or the combo.
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On 11/7/2017 at 5:28 PM, SnickNH said:
Ah, I'm kicking myself for missing this sale! Any chance you'll be having another one in the near future?
Back on sale now only for black friday
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Also if anyone is having trouble checking out with the sale price, let me know. Getting reports from other people that the sale price isn't showing up when they go to checkout which is odd.
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Just now, tkrestonva said:
Then I'm in for one. I've been needing to upgrade my F-11D for a while now. What's the best way to place an order?
Right there on the etsy page works fine for me. Thanks!
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5 hours ago, tkrestonva said:
Is this for a kit or an assembled F-11D? Also, does it come with the tactical light?
Assembled, and I'm assuming you mean the front light which is an affirmative.
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On 9/25/2017 at 10:54 PM, 1001001spy said:
I'd also like to know when you do it again.
On 9/24/2017 at 3:24 PM, vegatrooper said:Let me know when you do it again, don't want to miss it again
On 10/2/2017 at 10:42 AM, YouCantBe Sidious said:Keeping an eye out as well.
FYI the 50% off sale is now live again. $99 for the no-stock w/LEDs and equivalent prices for the others, $149 for the combo. Gonna try it for 72 hours this time and see if the sales are not too overwhelming.
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Knowing what it's like to get overwhelmed with orders I somewhat feel ANOVOS' pain when stuff falls apart on your supply chain side. However they've been in the business for quite a while so you'd think they'd have learned a thing or two about buffering their demand. I spent 80% of the money I made from the initial F-11D run I did (that took forever, ask my customers who I am eternally grateful for waiting patiently on me) on re-investing back into getting things on the supply side beefed up and to the point where I effectively brought turnaround times for the F-11D's etc from 8-12 weeks to 1-3 weeks on average. I now have several printers that are shelved as redundancies so that if anything goes wrong with my primary production, I have something to fall back on and use without interruption.
Now I probably don't have anywhere near the demand of ANOVOS but with that demand comes tremendous cashflow, they should be reinvesting a lot of that money into their supply chain and production to match the demand. They more than likely have employees to pay though, so with payroll and overhead and other things on their books they may not have the cashflow to reinvest, so who knows.
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I've got two shipping tomorrow and two more shipping the next day, yours is one of them. Thanks again for the order!
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16 hours ago, vegatrooper said:
when are you doing this price again? I didnt think it was a one day thing and missed it
Dunno, was thinking maybe something in october for halloween once I finish up this next slew of orders. We'll see!
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Not too good to be true, that I can tell you! Though at this price the orders may leave me inundated for a while
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Just a heads up, running the black friday promotions now on my Etsy page and website. Use BLACKFRIDAY2016 to get 25% off any of the blasters.
Also running a promo for those who want to get some blasters for their local garrison, order 4 blasters and get a 5th blaster for free, can be used with the black friday promo as well. PM me if you're interested in the garrison promo so I'll make sure to add a blaster to the shipment.
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Same goes for the mag:
The front light is a little bit different:
Once you've got that pulled out the cap comes right off like the others.
These run on LR41 batteries, by the way. Each blaster includes a replacement set for all 3 lights, and the LEDs are supposed to be rated for at least 5 hours of on-time before you should need to change them.
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Figured i'd give y'all first dibs to pick up a blaster if you still haven't already. Clearing out a few non-electronic versions I've had sitting in stock for a while.
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If you want one and would like to pay with paypal instead, send me a PM and I can arrange that.
Once those 4 are gone, the original prices will go back up. US shipping only, feel free to use a shipping forwarding service if you're out of the US.
Edit: these will ship next business day, forgot to add, since they're in stock obviously.
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Digging how they look in the dark.
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Pretty neat - I've played with some of the PolyMakr polyflex and Ninjaflex stuff before. Very temperamental filament to use, as it is impossible to use with a bowden extruder which completely rules out using it in my larger printers and commonly gets wrapped around the drive gear on my smaller direct drive printers.
Very cool to see you were able to come up with an interesting use. Is it pretty squishy? I would imagine it'd be without a large amount of infill density.
Episode 9 Stormtrooper research (Caution Spoilers Ahead)
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I took my best guess at overall length and I came up with about 23.2" with the stock. F-11D is around 24 or 25" IIRC, and given that this looked a tad smaller in the hands as well as it being very obviously based off of the Glock Roni Conversion Kit, that gave me a pretty good idea as to size.
Oh yeah, and ended up using the polyurethane smoothing technique successfully on the red parts and some of the silver parts and as you can see it turned out super great!
Overall I'm pretty happy with where I landed with the design. There's maybe a couple things I want to change just off the top of my head, but I think I'm ready to do a run of these if you guys are interested.