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Hi all. It's been a while and started this build 3rd Sept after a visit to Ootas place. Managed to get some seconds in the way of most components for this build and together with a pvc tube that already had the holes drilled in it, I decided to get on with it.
Motivation is the name of the game, and when I saw what Oota was doing, it spured me on.
So, the first thing to do was to mark out the position of the grip and tidy this up with a lot of sanding to even up the front and rear faces as these were out of alinment during the fabrication stage. after tidying this area, I stuck some sandpaper to the outer barrel tube and began to sand and shape the top face that will be secured to the tube. I drilled a large hole through the top of the tube so that I could screw the grip to the tube when ready. I then worked on the magazine housing and did similar work to this as the grip.

Looking very tidy! Keep the pics coming, please.

what blax said looks great Nick. I'll try and sort those other bits out for you soon I'm going to do another casting session

Agreed - it's looking good already. Look forward to seeing your ongoing progress.

Thanks guys. Yes I am very happy with what I have done to date, bearing in mind that this blaster will have light differences to others out there, but then that's me.
next came the Bolt. Oota gave me a cast one from a real Sterling but I thought that it would be a shame to cover up all that detail, so I made one from wood and put detail where it would be seen. I then added a pvc tube to the end for the spring to go inside and applied a couple of strips of foil tape over the seen areas and I thought it turned out quite well.

Below is a pic of the bolt with the Foil Tape on it.

very cool idea using foil tape can't wait to see this in person one day

Thanks Oota. Well the next step was to do the T Rails and I found a length of Aluminium T track in the garage that I bought about & years ago. After measuring the lengths of each, I cut up the track and shaped the ends with a file.I then worked out which holes they would cover and marked the end ones so that I could fill these in with wooden dowel pieces to help adhere the track to the PVC tube using Araldite SS epoxy.

I the photo below you can see the dowels glued in place using Superglue which also seals the timber.

Nice work there Nick, I love the t tracks