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    Pros/Cons of the Different BFGs

    in T-21, DLT-19, RT-97c Heavy Blasters

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    Let me change the question a little - What made you decide on the BFG you did?

    Ok, so, here is my point:

    - since I saw the movie when a child I always had the concept: SANDTROOPER = BIG GUNS

    The first impressive sequence that I remember and that was indelibly marked in my mind is this one:

    MEPDSandtroopers.jpg

    Too powerful to forgot.

    And what You see? BIG GUNS.

    I had the luck to find a demilled MG34 and a deactivated MG15 in the past.

    My original plan was to modify them as Star Wars weapons... but, then, a terrible "guilty feeling" spread into me:

    - why I have to "destroy" an historical weapon instead of use (or build) a replica?

    Also those real weapons are too heavy to use at events. They can be used as display models, but nothing more... especially the MG34 (12 Kilograms ... 26 lbs)

    So I put those project on a side, trying to find them a solution, while the only missing Big gun in my "collection" was the Lewis machinegun.

    Even if I found it - an original and deactivated beauty - it was too expensive for me at the time.

    So I started building it ... I purchased the diagrams, the user manual... I downloaded tons of hi-res pictures.

    I started working on the wooden stock, and I fell in Love to it. I do not know how to explain it but the feeling I had while working on it was something "sexy".

    When I finished it I was soo satisfied and happy about the result that I'm now always attending events with my T21, even if it weighs more than a classic E11 blaster.

    ... after a full day at an event while carrying it on your arm, well, You feel his bulkiness (but You're happy! also that child who had seen ANH long time ago, hidden in your heart and memories, is Happy... Delighted ... with goose bumps and chills on his hearts too !!!!!)

    (as a side note: the Lewis Gun is the Biggest of the three BFG, and the one I remember the most while digging into my childish memory, anyway)

    Now I'm trying to have an E11 because I fall into the sphere of compulsive collectors

    (I have a demilled Sterling, but in order to use it at events I have FIRST to rebuild the barrel in aluminium or steel because the way USA demills weapons is too destructive! Receiver was cut in 3 parts...)

    ... so it is totally useless now, as the other 2 real guns, taking dust on a shelf and waiting the right time when I'll decide to part from them.

    Maybe Hyperfirm???

    ... maybe...

    ... but living in Italy does not help me because whoever produce and sell hyperfirm weapons DO NOT SELL to my country.

    Ah, the humanity.

    Cheers,

    Alberto

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