Custom Cordak Blaster About this creation







From the front







From the side







From the back







From the other side







Holding in launch position







Compressed and launching







Close up of the ammo rack. Turns out those HF belts work great for Cordak ammo! This launcher holds up to 36 bullets in the ammo belts alone (9 holes in each belt, 1 cordak bullet on each side of the hole), plus 12 in the barrel itself, and 6 more in the axle holes on the "hand" pieces, making a total of 52 cordak bullets.



Unfortunately, Cordak blasters don't really work all that well by themselves. You have to press fairly hard to get the bullet to fire, otherwise it kind of hangs half out of the barrel. In rigging two cordaks up to one piston, I've doubled the force required to get the bullet to fire reliably.



What often ends up happening with it is I fire it as hard as I can about 7 or 8 times, which should unload all the bullets and then some, but I'm usually left with 6-8 bullets half hanging out of the barrel. Not sure if this is due to my own finger strength or the cordak's difficulty to operate, but either way it doesn't fire that well.



Still looks intimidating though. A sequel of sorts to my earlier creation, the Custom Rhotuka Launcher, this is a custom-built double-barreled Cordak blaster from the 2007 Toa Mahri. This one I don't like quite as much as the Rhotuka, but I still think it holds up.From the frontFrom the sideFrom the backFrom the other sideHolding in launch positionCompressed and launchingClose up of the ammo rack. Turns out those HF belts work great for Cordak ammo! This launcher holds up to 36 bullets in the ammo belts alone (9 holes in each belt, 1 cordak bullet on each side of the hole), plus 12 in the barrel itself, and 6 more in the axle holes on the "hand" pieces, making a total of 52 cordak bullets.Unfortunately, Cordak blasters don't really work all that well by themselves. You have to press fairly hard to get the bullet to fire, otherwise it kind of hangs half out of the barrel. In rigging two cordaks up to one piston, I've doubled the force required to get the bullet to fire reliably.What often ends up happening with it is I fire it as hard as I can about 7 or 8 times, which should unload all the bullets and then some, but I'm usually left with 6-8 bullets half hanging out of the barrel. Not sure if this is due to my own finger strength or the cordak's difficulty to operate, but either way it doesn't fire that well.Still looks intimidating though.





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I like it Gabor Pauler I think it was very intensional from TLG that the blaster is not working. Imagine a country where anyone can sue anybody for anything to pay one gzillion-billion dollars - you will understand it. Its nice from you that you tried to make it better working. By knux 400

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