3D printed Han Solo blaster

[Dedshott]

I have just finished printing and painting a DL-44 blaster. It was great fun. Printed about 40 bits from thingiverse, and it slotted together beautifully.

Has anyone found any great kits like this one?

[Toma500]

That looks great looks a bit like a mauser c96 mustve been what the props people started with .

[Dedshott]

Yes, I think they definitely did. Apparently with all the extraneous stuff it got very heavy. This has the opposite problem, but I have added some extra weight inside by glueing a load of old foreign coins in hidden places....

[Toma500]

There was a model manufacturer did 1/1 scale smallarms LS i think i wonder if that was the props peoples starting point as they did a Mauser ,sadly no longer sold due to tightened restrictions i had a great looking Walther P38 as a kid it looked just like the real thing and worked like it too none firing of course .Shame you cant get them now .

[louiechevy]

I've got a deactivated one the only screw in it is the one holding the pistol grips on, the actual gun holds itself together there's a little spring loaded latch under the hammer that allows it to be stripped down. The story goes is that the workers at Mauser saw the Borchardt C-93 and decided they could do better, they did this in secret and their own time as Mr Mauser only wanted to build rifles when he saw the C-96 he put it into production. I don't know how true it is though!

[hairy v]

[IJWS15]

I built a 1:1 scale luger when I was at university, would even chamber real (spent) 9mm cases and eject them when the action was cycled.

Don't recall who made it.

I believe the stormtrooper blasters were based on Sterling SMGs.