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Found my shoulder mounted weapon

A project log for Star Wars: BT-1 the Blastomech

BT-1 was introduced in the Star Wars Darth Vader comic books as a twisted mirror version of R2-D2. BT-1 is the first and only Blastomech.

kenneth-zabornyKenneth Zaborny 05/12/2017 at 02:120 Comments

I found the foam gun I want to use for one of the shoulder mounted weapons. Yes, my garage door sometimes doubles as a paint test area.

It's a Dart Zone Enforcer. The 40 dart capacity, full auto firing, and slow rate of fire all appeal to me. I should be able to wire it up for remote firing and since it's slow I won't expend all 40 darts in 2 seconds.

I have a "spare" R2 dome that I used to get the neck bearing centered. I need to lower it about 2mm so I'll have to print up spacers. I also permanently affixed the legs.

Some droids are capable of 2-3-2 which means they will pivot up to two legs and pull up the center leg. Then they will reverse this process. It's a lot of work and looks amazing. Unfortunately I don't have the room inside BT for all that so I'm permanently putting him into three leg mode.

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