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Now Clint, you do realize that I'm going to be throwing money at you to build me one of these right?  :laugh1:

 

Hee hee, hah hah. Um, this would stink to have to do again. ;)

 

Now is the deeper 'red' substance still bondo, or something different?

 

It's glazing putty. Not good for thick applications, but great for smoothing out little problems and filling tiny cracks!

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Now Clint, you do realize that I'm going to be throwing money at you to build me one of these right?  :laugh1:

That old hermit? Lives out beyond the Dune Sea... (thank you everyone, please tip the servers...)

 

I think you'd have to get in line :)

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Ok, now that I have that side angle schematic, I reassessed my stock and made adjustments. Fortunately it's not so far off that I can't work with it and I need to greatly thicken it anyways, so my plan is to cut two 3/8" boards to the right shape and sandwich them around the main stock and then fill in the gaps.

 

I should note that all of my scaling and proportioning is a bit adjusted to fit the fact that I don't have exact tubing/parts I need and need to compromise a bit. :)

 

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This is why i love the FISD. Keeping my eyes peeled to this thread!

 

Thanks Evan! The support is helpful on these tricky projects. :)

 

So another discovery I made from the file that Germain fetched for me is that my 3D models are about 20% too small. Luckily they aren't printed yet so I'm hopeful that my 3D printing source can scale it for me.  The question will be if my scope is too small, but we'll see.

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Hmm, I am in the Dune Sea Garrison...

 

LOL - yeah that was why I was using that line to make a (lame) joke. :)

 

Grow the beard out a bit more, get some brown robes....hmmm....maybe you can double: Breaking Bad TK + Obi Wan.  That could make a great spoof - Obi Wan + Breaking Bad.

 

Obi-Wan was really a meth maker and got the Lars family offed as they were competing?  I mean, not much money in moisture farming is there?  

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LOL - yeah that was why I was using that line to make a (lame) joke. :)

 

Grow the beard out a bit more, get some brown robes....hmmm....maybe you can double: Breaking Bad TK + Obi Wan.  That could make a great spoof - Obi Wan + Breaking Bad.

 

Obi-Wan was really a meth maker and got the Lars family offed as they were competing?  I mean, not much money in moisture farming is there?  

 

Wow, you're really expanding the scope of my project! I'm already not making the stand for it, now I have to grow a beard, sew some robes, build a meth factory, etc. Oh FISD...

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Ok, didn't do a ton yesterday, but made progress on the stock and the scope.

 

Cut out my wrapper pieces and glued them in place. I cut a separate insert to fill the gap in the middle at the back of the stock and I'll cut another to fill the gap in the bottom butt end of the stock.

 

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The scope was also too small - and I didn't really like the middle section anyways - so I redid it. It think it's proportionally better now and also cleaner.

 

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A bit of bondo to make the joint much more rounded and some glazing putty for sanding defects.

 

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Inspirational build Clint.  Such a nice combination of methods too.  Thanks for not only forging the path but also for your splendid documentation.

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Thanks Todd! It's my pleasure to build something likely wrong so that someone later can build it correctly. ;)

 

Ok, on to more stuff. Finished up the scope (for the most part). Just need to glaze over a few imperfections.

 

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Finished updating the stock to more closely match the schematic pic. I'm pretty happy with it! The next step is to wrap it in hard wood. I'm attempting a wood soak and bend, which I've never done before. About the only thing I haven't tried on this thing so far is sewing, but who knows.

 

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I'm using thin Birch paneling for the wrapper.

 

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So this is pretty awesome (and not helpful). I try once again Googling "Force Awakens Heavy Gunner" - you know, because sometimes new photos show up - and my build thread is on the first page. That is a clear sign of building something with inadequate available sources. :)

 

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Made a little more progress last night. So my soak/bake bend trick didn't work for the whole stock cover since it too easily wanted to split, but I did at least get the curve for the top of the stock down so I'll just add side pieces and sand and it should come out just fine.

 

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I also started building the top and back white boxes. I was planning on using thick ABS, but I think that a thin hardwood actually worked pretty well because it's easy to sand and shape.

 

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Building...

 

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And with some sanding...

 

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Thanks Tony! Actually I'm using maple for this stuff. It's a lot easier to get nice hard edges and sand but its not a big enough piece that I'm too worried about the weight. The frame itself is made out of pine and I've kept it as small as I think I can to still be structurally strong.<br><br>

Of course, this is my first scratch build gun and it's a big one and the resources stink so I could be wrong about everything. :-)

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Awesome job! Really enjoying watching it all come together - and you have me eye balling my old "Build your own blaster".

 

 

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