Kind - thanks for that very good information! In that case I’ll hold off on buying the button and just grab an Exoray kit, since I’ve got my tax refund sitting here and no resin parts left to buy. 
Feind - thanks!! I’m really pleased with how it looks so far, and I’m excited about hopefully making good progress on the thrower tomorrow.
Shane
Looks good Shane!
I’ll certainly add your thread to my references.
Did you just tap/thread your gunbox basecover screws right into the resin box material?
I’d start on my gun, but my gararge is like 25 degrees today. Talk about watching paint dry!
~Steve
I actually haven’t tapped anything at all! What we’ve been doing is basically making the holes just big enough for the bolts to fit, and then screwing them in, letting the bolts themselves tap the resin (or aluminum). The result is that they’ve been holding on very tight, which I like.
Shane
Today I epoxied the resin parts onto the gunbox and attached the Clippard 701 to the front. I did have a few irritating mishaps though. The knobs on the left side of the box had too much epoxy on them and so it came out the sides and you can see it around the edges of the knobs. Then after finishing the gunbox, I put some of the decals on it, and my namebrand transfers practically distintegrated most of the times I tried to use them. Colin’s free vinyl decals are great though, and I ended up using those for most stuff except the red triangle above the back handle and the “1 2 3” on the top knob.
I also epoxied the grip onto the rear handle (saving the front for when the lights come) and the trigger tip onto the end of the acrylic tube.
Lastly I drilled holes for the trigger box and dry fitted it, glued in the barbs for the slo-blo box, and put on the green tubing.
Here’s some shots.
The holes for mounting the trigger box. 2 small ones for the pins Colin includes with the kit, and one large one for electronics later.
Dry fitting the trigger box - you can kind of see the epoxy around those side knobs. :walterpeck:
Check out that heat sink!
End of day 3 - the slo-blo box is not affixed yet, but this is lookin good, I think.
It was pretty cool to slip the handles in and be holding a thrower! Hopefully I won’t have too many more mishaps. Hope you guys still think it looks good! 
Shane
I definitely need to remember to file down the bargraph frame when my own MMM Gun kit arrives, should it be too small for the bargraph of the kit I got from Flynn.
Interesting to see you’re putting the finishing touches on before fixing the handles in place.
That sucks that the transfers didn’t work out for you. All in all though, it looks pretty good. Good to see what one of Collin’s kits looks like being assembled. Thinking about using one of those myself. Keep the updates coming!
Do you think the bargraph frame might be too small? The gunbox originally didn’t come with one at all, so my friend and I had to cut this one in.
I don’t think the handles are going to involve doing much to the gunbox, which is why I decided to put the “finishing touches” on it before doing those. Also I was excited to get the decals on. 
Having never really built anything before, I’m definitely learning a lot. :lol:
Shane
Thats what it’s ALL about! You learn and thats part of the process, it’s okay to make mistakes as you go and most can be easily fixed. I think you’ve done a great job Shane
Feels good to hold the thrower for the first time huh?
Oh and I leave the bargraph area plain so you can cut the window to the size of the light kit you use as they seem to differ slightly.
Thanks for the encouragement, Colin. Much appreciated! I realize I’m sort of doing things out of order, but that stupid gunbox was SO close to looking finished that I had to put the decals on it. :lol:
And man it is cool to have that thrower set up so you can hold it!
Shane
Well, everyone builds a different way and in different order so what ever works for you. This is part of the reason why I never did instructions as I figured there were enough plans and build threads out there. I like to see things come together in a build thread as you and others have done with my kits.
Fast progress Shane!
As an old model builder, I’m really a “decal last” guy. But I’m sure you’re sequence is AOK.
I hope to see your completed set-up first hand in November !!
I’ll definitely be bringing it to the Queen Mary! That ship is begging for a ghøstbusting. :lol: Especially if I can get Dejah and the rest of the committee to vote for another ghost tour. Hopefully you can get your stuff together in time, too! Last year we did the WW2… I think this year we need more GBs! 
Shane
wait whats going on at the Queen Mary in November?
Beautiful work so far, mcfly!
Shaping up really nicely Shane! Feels great when it all starts comming together dosent it 
Well, Steve and I are members at another forum - IndyGear (where I’ve been since '04) and we have 2 summits that happen each year and are endorsed by the board (though not financially). Similar to PKE Surge, but we organize the whole thing, and it doesn’t happen during a Con. We have the Queen Mary Summit in November, and the Finger Lakes NY Summit in the summer. I’m part of the planning team for the QM Summit, and this year will be the 9th QM Summit! The summit is about 3 or 4 days of programming on the ship, and we also head out to Fort MacArthur in San Pedro for whipcracking and all that. Here’s some pics from last year.
Group photo at Fort Mac
Nicktheguy and I after the ghost tour.
Some of us in our WW2 uniforms. (I’m 2nd from left, Raider57 is third)
Shane
I live in Rochester, NY just north of the finger lakes. I could drive over and meet you.
The event is actually IN Rochester, and we hang out at the Curtis Museum, but you have to be a member of the IndyGear forum, because the event requires prepayment and registration for some of the programming.
Shane
Looking great so far Shane. I dunno why but that shot outside witht he shell in gray primer really looks crips. Cant wait to see when your done .
Yeah, it does! I sanded out some of the bigger bumps and in between the fins, but most of the shell has a little texture to it which I didn’t sand out. I kind of like the feel of the texture, even though I guess ideally it would be metal smooth. Hmm…!
Shane
