Youtuber and rubber band enthusiast [JoergSprave] is a big fan of Star Wars, and he loved the look of the blaster that Han Solo gave to Rey. He’d seen a few replicas of Rey NN-14 gun, but hadn’t seen any that actually fired anything, so he set out to make one that did.
The build itself is from plywood, with a paint job to make it look like an old blaster. What makes the build really cool is the bullets used: glow sticks! [Joerg] created space in the magazine for three glow sticks, so you’ve got a couple of shots before you have to reload. Crack ’em, load them up and then fire away!
The glow sticks give the blaster fire a great look (especially in the dark!) and it’s really easy to find the shots after you’ve fired them. We’ve featured [Joerg]’s builds a few times on the site, and his build videos are a lot of fun. Check out his compressed air crossbow bolt gatling gun, or his machete shooting slingshot.
Sweet!
I love his laugh – he makes some serious sling shot style devices
His laugh is his trademark. Once you see how he uses it as a tool it gets old quickly.
Ohhh I’d love that moskito trap! And what an awesome gun :D
Here in the US in would be a good idea to paint the muzzle orange.
What if someone paints real gun orange?
Well then you can probably run around anywhere with it. Someone needs to get the man some low velocity tracer bullets so’s he can make a real gun with the same effect
He’s in Germany, so nothing like that would be legal for him.
I did not read the “plywood” at first and thought: “Strange, this looks quite lightweight from the way he is moving the thing, but it looks like heavy cast metal. :-)
There was a paintball gun that would ‘charge’ the glow-in-the-dark paintballs in the hopper so you could have night games.
Was epic when it worked.