TrainWreck

It's ingenuity by necessity my friend. It's a miracle that I talked my wife into letting me save up for armor over the next year. I couldn't imagine talking her into buying a T-21. Besides all I have is time before I get my armor next year.

Update time! So when we last saw my build I was in the middle of cutting out the basic shape. After a broken coping saw and an electric jigsaw emergency drop I continued forward. I cut the rest of the gun out, the two side plates for the buttstock, and glued those puppies on. now it might be obvious but I picked up oak paneling (plywood) for the side pieces. This is having a mixed blessing as it chips off as you work with it but hopefully all of that will give the weathering a nice look when I eventually get to that stage. So I left the stock clamped over night and then compared how badly my jigsaw work matched up. Hmmmm... Not real excited by my work so I pulled the jigsaw back out and trimmed off the excess. So I will just give you a series of photos for this next part. Basically I pulled out my electric palm sander and started shaping the stock. I started by rounding of the top and then moved to the bottom. Now on a Lewis the stock is thinner on the bottom than the top so I tried to somewhat emulate that with my shaping. So I rounded out the bottom at a steeper angle than the top then just started sanding like a maniac all over. ...and this is what I have so far: ...and then one quick comparison against the "master." Close enough for imperial work! It's not completely symmetrical yet and I haven't decided if I'm going to take off the entire outer layer of the plywood or leave it for a rough weathered look. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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Might ask ATA himself.

Ahhhhhhhhh. 3. I guess I should hit "next" next time...

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I don't know if this helps but this is a bapty comparison thread: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/25183-blaster-comperison-bapty10-vs-bapty20/

I don't know specificly about the Roadblock Captain but it's my understanding that some of the Tunisian E-11s had the wooden block and some of them had the cut down magazine. Once again I'm very noob here but I would assume that was user choice even for S.W.A.T.

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I hadn't mentioned it here but I broke my coping saw yesterday. So I had to borrow a saw from a friend. ...and... I'll have some pictures up a little later when I get a bit more done. My friend dropped of the jigsaw which on the one hand is infinitely faster but it is at the cost of accuracy for me. I got the rest of the gun cut out and two 1/4" oak panels for either side of the butt stock. I'm currently glueing those on, cursing that they don't match up perfectly with the center piece, and will start trying to sand, correct the shape, and just general shaping tomorrow for the buttstock. Eh if this all goes astray I have a plan B for the buttstock. I'm only $10 in right now anyhoo...

2+2=5... I mean 4.

...and then to 2...

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One is the loneliest number...

Thank you sir! I'm not known for my patience or accuracy with power tools so I thought I'd stretch myself a bit.

This will be a cross posted thread with FISD. So out the gate I'm saying this is not a tutorial. This is a simple build thread. I've never attempted anything like this at all. If you're looking for a good T-21 template may I suggest Pandatrooper's (the one I will be using): http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/10313-new-t-21-blaster-template/?p=130310&hl=blaster%20template&fromsearch=1#entry130310 He also has a great tutorial here: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/11017-how-to-t-21-blaster-scratch-build/ I'm also very fond of Batphobic's build tutorial over at MEPD: http://forum.mepd.net/index.php?showtopic=12776 So with all of that out of the way lets get this circus started! First I had a friend at a print shop print me up a couple of Pandatrooper's templates on large single sheets of paper (many people just print it out in sections and tape it together). I then cut out the bottom side view of the template and using Batphobic's trick flipped it over, used a pencil to layer on grafite along the outline (on the reverse side of the print), flipped it back over and taped it to an appropriate length piece of 1"x8" white board, and the traced out the outline with the pencil thus transferring the image (my English teacher is rolling over in her grave from that sentence): Now I don't have a band saw or an electric jigsaw. I have a coping saw. So in an attempt to develop Zen like patience I began: ...and I slowly worked my way across the bottom: ...and once done with that I drilled a hole in the trigger guard and cut that out: ...and that's what I had in me tonight. I thing for a first attempt it's not terrible. I have a lot of sanding ahead of me to get the rough shape defined. Only major problem so far is when I did the front bottom bulge of the grip I was sawing at an angle instead of straight across so "cut off" the buldge on that side but I will research fixing it. ...and that is day one.

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