Sarco Plank (second from right) with his JSP-14 in the Vanity Fair photo shoot. The choice of using an airsoft pistol as the base to create the DL-44 blaster is likely because the MGC replica C96s used in the original trilogy are no longer manufactured, and the existing ones are very expensive, due to the high demand for them created, amusingly enough, by Star Wars fans wanting them to make replicas of Han's blaster. At least one of the props was built from an HFC M712 and another from what appears to be a Marushin M712, both with their scope, scope mount, and "grill" seemingly based on the (non-Elite Edition) Master Replicas Han Solo Blaster replica. Strangely enough, despite it being very well known that the DL-44s in the Original Trilogy were based on Mauser C96s, The Force Awakens's DL-44 is based on a Mauser M712 Schnellfeuer machine pistol.Īll of the props seems to have been based on airsoft M712s (which is probably why they were based on the M712, as no airsoft C96 exists) with their selector switches removed to make them appear more like the C96. The DL-44 blaster pistol returns in The Force Awakens as the blaster of choice for Han Solo ( Harrison Ford). Handguns BlasTech DL-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol (Mauser M712 Schnellfeuer) 3.1 BlasTech EL-16 Blaster and EL-16HFE Blaster Rifle (Heckler & Koch G36C).
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