This is a display stand I made for a modified toy Han Solo DL-44 blaster as part of a bigger electronics project that uses the blaster to control edge-lit displays of other Star Wars characters. The stand is designed to fit this particular version of the blaster available at Walmart, which I am pretty sure is the same thing as this Rubies version. (The modifications I made to my blaster had no impact on where the stand grips the blaster, so this stand should work fine for a new or unaltered toy blaster.)
The faux gun stand was designed to be laser-cut from plywood and acrylic. So, the .STEP and .STL files that I generated and included here have not been printed and tested, though they should probably work together okay since they were generated from the same SolidWorks files that I used to make my 2D files for. Everything was held together with hot glue, except for the clear acrylic pieces, which, IIRC, were fastened with 1/4-20 screws and nuts (the hole has a diameter of 1/4", which could be okay for 1/4" screws since the laser kerf will make the cutout bigger than that). Before adding the acrylic pieces, I stained the wood and gave it a couple coats of polyurethane.
Here is a list of how many parts you will need to cut and from what material:
| Part Name | Quantity | Material |
|---|---|---|
| top | 1 | 3mm or 1/8" silver mirrored acrylic |
| starbird | 1 | 3mm or 1/8" gold mirrored acrylic |
| blaster_holder_rear | 1 | 1/2" clear acrylic |
| blaster_holder_front | 1 | 1/2" clear acrylic |
| starbird_holder | 1 | 3mm or 1/8" plywood |
| starbird | 1 | 3mm or 1/8" plywood |
| support_channel | 4 | 1/4" plywood |
| siding_outer_long | 2 | 1/4" plywood |
| siding_outer_short | 2 | 1/4" plywood |
| siding_inner_long | 2 | 1/4" plywood |
| siding_inner_short | 2 | 1/4" plywood |
| bottom_with_starbird_cutout | 1 | 1/4" plywood |
To show how the parts fit together, I have included a picture of a 3D model of the stand with a few components made transparent. You can also check out my Imgur build log, which shows a few steps of the assembly.
PRO TIP: I added a white paper cutout of the starbird to the area immediately behind the gold starbird piece, which makes the letters much easier to see. That piece of paper is attached to a thin 3mm (or 1/8") plywood cutout of the starbird, which is fixed to the "bottom_with_starbird_cutout" piece by the "starbird_holder".
| all_cdr.zip | 124.2KB | |
| all_dxf.zip | 71.2KB | |
| all_solidworks.zip | 864.9KB | |
| all_step.zip | 77.4KB | |
| all_stl.zip | 19.5KB | |
| blaster_holder_front.STL | 26.4KB | |
| blaster_holder_rear.STL | 28.8KB | |
| bottom_without_starbird_cutout.STL | 6.9KB | |
| siding_inner_long.STL | 10.8KB | |
| siding_inner_short.STL | 6.9KB | |
| siding_outer_long.STL | 684.0B | |
| siding_outer_short.STL | 684.0B | |
| starbird_holder.STL | 2.2KB | |
| support_channel.STL | 17.1KB | |
| top.STL | 2.6KB |
