darth1138

Well, I thought the new Star Trek was decent. I would watch it but not own it, I'm one of those huge trekkies that believe in the classics. However I believe J.J Abrams might pull it off, It really depends on the story...

Code Cylinder Pocket Frame- Keep your Cylinders from rolling and drooping.

I become very distracted if the costume I am wearing is out of line and sloppy looking. I became a neat freak real quick with my officer Uniform. When I first started to wear my officer uniform I would be constantly straightening my Code Cylinders. This is what I came up with to fix the problem.
1. The Pocket frame will look like a lower case n or rectangle missing a short side.

2. Measure your pockets height and width from the inside.
3. Choose a ridged but bendable material. I used sheet Styrene ( plastic )
4. Draw the Shape of the inside of your Pocket using the measurements you
took, on your material..
5. My pockets have a slight angle on the sides facing each other. You will
have to measure and cut your pieces accordingly to compensate for the angle. If you do not, then they will not fit straight. You will have to label the frames Right and Left.
6. If you stick a hard piece of material in with you cylinders, they will bulge out of the pockets and look horrible. To avoid this you will; have to cut out a notch for bottom majority of the cylinder to rest in and not stick out from the pocket.
7. Make the tops black so that if the top edge shows a little it will not be
noticeable.
Picture front

8. To make the correct size notch measure the width of your Code Cylinders this is how wide the notch needs to be.

9. Draw the notch as a tall skinny rectangle just a little wider then the cylinders. The notch will be in the center starting from a half inch down, just enough room for the clip to make contact to with the cylinder. That is where the Cylinder is supported. The notch goes all the way down to the bottom.
Cut out the frame and then the notch. They should have an n shape with the correct angle on the the sides, if needed, like this.

Done

The blaster is now complete! Here are the final pics.
For reference photos I was using these http://www.partsofsw.com/merrson2.htm

A little more progress. I have removed the handles of the blaster. I plan on painting all the "metal" parts of the blaster with a black textured paint but I dont want that on the handles so that's why I removed them.
I have glued the one tube to the left side of the blaster. I also took one of the airsoft pellets and cut it in half and glue the halves to the same side. That is the yellow bulbs you see on there. Just above the yellow bulbs is a snap assembly that I have glued to the blaster. The silver disk is the snap. I have removed the pin on the back of it to make it sit flat. I haven't glued that yet, that will be glued on after painting because I want it to remain silvery, but I have put it in the 2nd pic in the location I plan on putting it in.

The next phase is the "tubing" on the side of the blaster. What I have used is 2 pieces of garden hose adapters that have been cut in half. The first pic shows a reference pic of the adapter, as well as the pieces I have formed out of the adapter. I used a dremel to cut the adapter in half, and then I glued the two pieces together end on end. This long section will eventually get put onto the right side of the blaster, as seen in the 2nd pic.
I also cut another adapter as to get a single half piece that will get put onto the left side of the blaster. I had to use the dremel to shave these pieces a little so as to fit more snuggly to the side of the blaster.
Once I have these glued on I will provide additional pics.