thanks mat!
i agree that it looks like a sharp 90 but i think its just my crappy photography skills. i took a peice of 1.25 tubing and formed it around that. i may play with it a little more, but i thought the pics looked funny after uploading them.
thanks
jim
ok guys, i got a little more made up today! coming along slow. also seems i have to make each part twice, but its worth it. let me know what you think!
aluminum gun track..too bad its not as good as Namebrands :walterpeck: haha
rear instrument bar
i had to remake my trigger box since it was about 3/8 of an inch too short.
now i just have to get the front plates cut out for the gun body and have it welded together. lots of work left, but im getting closer all the time. comments welcome!!
thanks
jim
Truly orgasmic.
Truly.
That is pretty Jimbo. That is gonna turn out great!
great work, man! any ballpark idea of the final weight?
Kick friggin ass!!
Can’t wait to see how you tackle the top vents and bar graph…
its really not that heavy, but i dont have everything attatched yet, and the worst part will be the gun track. shouldnt weigh much more than a resin gun. and rob, i think im gonna just put the gun body back on the end mill for the vents and bargraph. hopefully that way i can keep all the cuts nice and straight! thanks for the compliments guys 
jim
Not wood? Grrrr, and I just painted mine with a faux wood finish.
yea tell me about it..i had so much sawdust in my nose i could have made another set of them..oh well, i like the idea of wooden grips..kinda have to after all the work i put into them lol
It’s no big deal. It looks like they used brown resin, or maybe fiberglass resin which is already brown in color, so no big deal really.
another small update. got the gun body finished up “kinda” ive just got it superglued and jb welded into place. next im going to weld the body up, file it back down smooth, and then bondo the seams. so im far from done, but its a relief to get the panels all put together.
the nasty insides!!!
thats it for now guys..hope to have some more done later this week.
later
jim
I don’t want to sound like I’m raining on your parade but just wanted to give you a heads up, but I’m probably a little to late.
I’ve recently built an aluminum thrower myself and from what I understand have the jb weld on there is a very bad thing.
When I took all the parts in to have my gun welded up, I had used a little jb weld on the trigger ring assembly piece to hold it in place. Well, that part came back with me and I had to get all the jb weld off before they would weld it. I was told to use a small dab of super glue to hold it in place till they could tack it. All my other parts were being held together with painters tape.
I’m not a welder so why it’s bad I’m not sure, but had something to do with it reacting with the jb weld and clogging up the tip of the welding gun. Maybe someone that knows about welding can chime in. I could be wrong too.
Awsome work, WOAH! 
well i plan on just tacking it on the outside. i should be able to tack it up enough and grind down the excess. i dont anticipate having too much trouble with it…but im probably wrong lol.
jim
When you weld the outside, you’ll fry the JB weld on the inside which will contaminate the molten welds.
When the JB weld burns, it will probably let off some awesome fumage.
Fit looks good though!
Ooooh, where was i on this one?! this looks great so far, and think how cool it will be to have authentic weathering on it!
nice…amazing job…must be so light…
I would’ve welded it from the inside… And only weld the outside where the welds are supposed to be visible.
the seams need to be filled anway and you can always machine after welding the pieces together. But to be honest I would probably just machine the high spots and hand work the rest with a file and some sand paper. Thin material like that chatter is almost a given and not to mention things moving around for the heat from welding.To many variables to account for I think it would be better to be safe than sorry.To much time in that piece to have a mistake at this point.
I am so glad to see this post! I just started my first build, also out of aluminum. You are just a few parts ahead of me. What I have done is use a product like durafix or hts-2000 to “Braze” the aluminum parts together, and then use JB weld to fill seems. I built my first version thrower body from .060 alum. as a box without the curve on the right side, and was going splice in the radius. I like the simple approach you took to bending the top and side as one piece. I am going to redo mine like that as well. As I get a few more parts finished I’ll start a post as well. Thanks mate!
