The inner workings of blasters essentially create particle beams to pierce, melt and disintegrate targets. In that film, the Republic employed green and blue blaster fire and attacked from the right, while the Separatists employed red blaster fire and attacked from the left. In Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, the second film of the prequel trilogy, the color and the direction were reversed. In the Star Wars original trilogy, rebels employed red blaster fire and often attacked from the left, while the Empire also employed red blaster fire, using green blaster fire only with TIE fighters, and attacked from the right. Like in Ran, color-coding and an 'onscreen sense of direction' of blaster fire are used to depict opposing forces. In a chapter of the book Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars, Michael Kaminski, writing about the influence of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa on the Star Wars films, said that Kurosawa's Ran influenced the exchange of blaster fire. Burtt hit the guy-wire of an AM radio transmitter tower with a hammer and recorded the sound with a microphone close to the impact. īen Burtt, a sound designer who worked on the Star Wars films, came up with the sound of blaster fire during a family backpacking trip in the Pocono Mountains in 1976. These blank cartridges are responsible for the muzzle flash seen on screen and, in some scenes, the cartridges themselves can be seen being ejected from the guns, or the actual sound of the blank cartridge is not dubbed over by a sound effect. Stormtrooper wielding the E-11 blaster rifleįunctional Sterlings firing blank cartridges were used in some scenes with the laser bolt added later in post-production. Other heavy repeating blasters' were Lewis light machine guns with the barrel shroud and pan magazine removed. The blaster was subsequently used as a prop in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The blaster made for the 1977 film A New Hope was lost, and a second blaster was made with resin from the cast used for the first one. Lucasfilm's prop department added a scope and an emitter nozzle to the pistol. The design of the modified DL-44 blaster pistol owned by Han Solo was based on the 7.63-caliber Mauser C96, an early and successful automatic pistol that was used in World War I and World War II. In the films, the design of the E-11 blaster rifle was based on the Sterling submachine gun. Several design changes were made by the filmmakers, such as alterations to the magazine. The iconic E-11, a standard mid-range weapon used primarily by stormtroopers, is based on the real-life Sterling sub-machine gun used by the armed forces of the United Kingdom over the second half of the 20th century. They are also said to be able to be modified with certain add-ons and attachments, with Han Solo's blaster being said to be illegally modified to provide greater damage without increasing power consumption. Many blasters mirror the appearance, functions, components, operation, and usage of real life firearms. Lucasfilm defines the blaster as 'ranged energized particle weaponry'. (the prop is based on the frame of a real Sterling submachine gun).Ī blaster is a fictional gun that appears in the Star Wars universe. Consequently, surfaces that have been treated by the Bristle Blasting tool have a texture and visual cleanliness that mimics those obtained by traditional grit blasting processes.An E-11 blaster rifle, the standard issue weapon used by Imperial stormtroopers Immediately after the bristle tips strike the corroded steel surface, they retract (i.e., “rebound”) from the surface, which results in both corrosion removal and a micro-indentation that exposes fresh surface. Mechanical principlesīristle tips are designed to strike the corroded surface with kinetic energy that is equivalent to standard processes that use grit blast media. This tool consists of wire bristle tips that are bent forward and dynamically tuned to a hand-held power tool which operates at approximately 2,500 rpm. The Bristle Blasting process is a new innovation that both removes corrosion and generates an anchor profile by using a specially designed rotary bristle tool. The patented Bristle Blaster ® is the first hand-held brush belt system in the world that produces a quality of surface roughness and a result comparable to that achieved by sandblasting.

Blaster with rebaslight