blasters

 

 

 

There are various blasters available on the internet, varying from £10 up to £200. A popular method is to buy one of the toy blasters made by Hasbro, then making them more realistic by modifying them by cutting/sticking/painting. The Stormtrooper E-11 rifles used in the films were based upon the Stirling machine gun, heavily modded to make them outer-spacey.

 

 

Ebay provided me with a number of of options, so I purchased 2 which looked quite realistic, and one to modify.

 

A Hasbro blaster that holds a can of silly string. Doesn't need much doing to it except for painting the red mouth of the barrel, and rubbing down then painting black the 'STAR WARS' lettering on the side.

 

 

 

A 'droid blaster', this is ready-weathered with a red-lit tube in the barrel and blaster noises. I might take the batteries out !

 

 

 

  This one is a standard Hasbro blaster that can be adapted to look like the E-11, I will be buying the parts from Doopy's World and adding them in the future. Hopefully, it will end up looking like the one on the right.

 

 

 

And then I get this one, a small-size DH-17, which I will use to give to kids rather than letting them have mine, as it's getting a bit battered.

 

 

 

 

 

This one is a painted and weathered kid's toy (the build-your-own blaster, which comes in 3 sections). Looks really good, and comes apart easily for transportation. Love the faux wood stock especially. The blue light and sounds are nice extras, but I will probably use it with them off.

 

 

Another conversion of the build-your-own blaster, 4 sections that clip together like the one above. No faux wood stock, the lights and sounds all work. I have added a plastic insert into the scope to replicate a targeting sight.

Yet another conversion of the build-your-own, this time with a long barrel added to look like a sniper rifle.

 

Another E-11, slightly different to the others with the stock folding out.

 

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