E-11 Blaster conversion

Not wanting to use my MR E-11 for trooping, I found a resin kit from the US, and recieved it as a Christmas present. Holy crap what a POS!!

The best i can find to say about it was that it was warped and extremely poorly cast (probably from overused and damaged molds). The first couple of pics show examples of the bad surfaces, large air bubbles at the extreme edges etc.

I filled, reshaped, filled, reshaped etc. until the pieces were a reasonable shape ( I used ssp-hg as it bonds well to resin, is lightweight and shapes relatively easily- pink areas in the pictures). The picture of the scope and stock shows where some parts were rebuilt. The brown area is tamiya quick type epoxy putty.

The kit came with a piece of PVC pipe that was drilled and cut for the reciever, I suspect it was measured and drawn up by a labotamised chimp, that had suffered an unfortunate airplane accident resulting in loss of bith upper limbs hence the mouth was used to hold the drawing tool. He then passed this to less his fortunate co-pilot who set about drilling and cutting....................you get the picture.

Anyhow, whilst in the US i found a "hasbro-clone trooper" blaster for $15 in toys r us, and decided I could modify this using the resin parts from the abortive kit.................and keep the childish noises and flashing lights :) .

First job was to cut off the orange nozzle, sight, scope, clip and hengstler type thingy. I then sanded off most of the lettering, missed a bit on teh back of the scope rail :( .

The next job was to start repairing the damage ;). I used 1.5mm plastic plate and epoxy putty to cover and fill the holes. Black painted sculptors mesh was used to form a grill over the speaker.

All parts were painted using Plasticote matte black enamel paint. when dry hot glue was used to fasten the clip on the inside of the body. Once set, a brace plate of ABS (left over from armour) was cut such that screws could be fastened through into the resin clip.

The scope was attached using brass pipe pins, and CA glue, along with the barrel end and sight.