I've been working on this off and on for a while. It's layer upon layer of sculpy over an aluminum foil base. It's 98% hand sculpted. The emitter is the barrel off of a pirate gun and the belt hanger and buttons are metal.
It weighs more than I expected (almost as much as my ROTJ Luke saber)
I know it's not 100% accurate to any one version. I took what details I liked and worked my own into them. I'm extremely please with how it turned out.
Last edited by glim999; Apr 8, 2008 at 10:01 PM.
Looks cool!
I actually have the real one I built for the Essential Guide to the Force, but I need to finish it. When I do complete it I'll post a full parts list.
Wow, weird. Never heard of this one, what's it from?
Is that supposed to be a Rancor tooth or something?
Good job BTW!
Yup. It's from the Young Jedi Knights novels. Never read them but the Rancor tooth lightsaber was too cool not to make.
Very cool.
Although, I must admit when i first saw the photo it reminded me of a female pleasure product.
motivealloy said:
Very cool.
Although, I must admit when i first saw the photo it reminded me of a female pleasure product.
That looks great.I love that character, and you did a fantastic job on that saber.
I made one years ago but it is not as nearly as nice as yours and it was before I could find a drawing (after reading that first book in which it appears I ran out and made one that weekend out of sculpty) It describes the 2 of them as Rancor teeth with engravings from her homeworld on them. I made it smaller because she was using one in each hand at age 13. Anyway, now that they have good drawing so at some point I will make a much better one, like yours, but for what its worth...
(sorry the last pic is blurry, oh well -I never felt that end was finished , it needed some metal in it)
Cool. I like that they're original concepts. Makes 'em more personalKnightAsylum said:
That looks great.
I made one years ago but it is not as nearly as nice as yours and it was before I could find a drawing (after reading that first book in which it appears I ran out and made one that weekend out of sculpty) It describes the 2 of them as Rancor teeth with engravings from her homeworld on them. I made it smaller because she was using one in each hand at age 13. Anyway, now that they have good drawing so at some point I will make a much better one, like yours, but for what its worth...
(sorry the last pic is blurry, oh well -I never felt that end was finished , it needed some metal in it)
I know very little about the character. I remember when she first came into being and my brother in law told me about her Rancor tooth saber. I had no idea about the markings. I would have added some. Oh well, what's done is done...
I think in the newest designs the marking are gone anyway. The cover of the book Tempest is the best shot I have seen, and it looks a lot like yours
wow thats really unique! I dug up a few paintings of the one in reference. Im inspired now...
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The Tempest cover is really cool and was the basis for mine since I had to keep it in-universe accurate.KnightAsylum said:
I think in the newest designs the marking are gone anyway. The cover of the book Tempest is the best shot I have seen, and it looks a lot like yours
The Tempest cover and my art for The Essential Guide to the Force are on Wookieepedia...
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tenel_Ka
Direct link to mine...
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image...tsaber_EGF.jpg
I made it from a resin casting of a T-Rex tooth. I still have some bondo and final finish work to do on it.
This painting and lightsaber in it are mine.
Kylash327 said:
wow thats really unique! I dug up a few paintings of the one in reference. Im inspired now...
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About time someone made one of these. Me and a board member from ASAP made plans to make a pair some years ago but it never really got off the ground. Yours is fantastic BTW!
do you have ny pics of the prop that you build as opposed to the painting of it? would love to see some.lonepigeon said:
Slight update. Went out to check my mail today and found this neat little toggle bolt thingy laying by the sidewalk and it was too cool not to add.
I used both of the paintings above as inspiration. I used to tempest cover for the over shape but all of the details were inspired by lonepigeon's saber. Great job by the way.
Those pics are great, THANKS - great painting, lonepigeon
All this discussion is pushed me into action and now I am going to go ahead and start on a new one.
What are the basic dimensions of the one you made, Glim999?
Very cool idea and well-executed! Fantastic concept too Chris T.
It's 11 1/4" long and at it thickest (the "hide" near the emitter) it's 1 3/4" wide. The tooth it's self is right about 1 1/2"KnightAsylum said:
Here it is next to Luke's ROTJ for comparison
The novel cover makes it look chunky, so that's what I went for
sweet where do I sign up to get one
I hadn't considered casting it but I suppose that if there's interest, I might could do it. Dunno. Is this something people want?
I would buy one (if I could afford it) I already made an "off" one myself, much rather buy a good one.
depending on price me too, I was hoping someone would do this saber. lonepigeon- if this is a go can I use your picture for the plaque?
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