Sunday 19-Jun-2016, 09:45 PM
(This post was last modified: Sunday 19-Jun-2016, 10:01 PM by Altair.)
No I am not building a Mara Jade costume ... but I am in the process of building her "Snub-nosed" Holdout Blaster, so I thought I would share.
So first thing.. research! Looking around the internet I didn't find much in the way of reference pics. These are the ones that I found and the issue is the blaster looks different in each picture!
There are also a few fan made blasters out there, again all a little different. So I thought I would use a combination of the reference pics and also the blaster shown in the current CRL for inspiration.
I sketched up a 3D model of the blaster. As both sides of this blaster will be identical, I only modeled one half with the plan to mirror it for printing. The two halves can then be glued together.
Here is what I came up with:
And here is a preview of the blaster with both sides joined:
Both pieces printed
I was thinking about making the blaster a little wider, but now that its printing I think I am OK with the thickness
Still needs to be glued together and then prepped/sanded
I am quite happy with the proportions too
So first thing.. research! Looking around the internet I didn't find much in the way of reference pics. These are the ones that I found and the issue is the blaster looks different in each picture!
There are also a few fan made blasters out there, again all a little different. So I thought I would use a combination of the reference pics and also the blaster shown in the current CRL for inspiration.
I sketched up a 3D model of the blaster. As both sides of this blaster will be identical, I only modeled one half with the plan to mirror it for printing. The two halves can then be glued together.
Here is what I came up with:
And here is a preview of the blaster with both sides joined:
Both pieces printed
I was thinking about making the blaster a little wider, but now that its printing I think I am OK with the thickness
Still needs to be glued together and then prepped/sanded
I am quite happy with the proportions too