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A lot has happened in the last six months, so I have been a bit preoccupied. I'm hoping that things are settled down enough to allow me to resume this project.
A lot has happened in the last six months, so I have been a bit preoccupied. I'm hoping that things are settled down enough to allow me to resume this project.
My name is Christian Colquhoun and I built the original prop for the Last Star fighter when I was working for Modern Props in Los Angeles.
The ONLY bought part on the prop is the momentary electronic *trigger* that was used to trigger a half load squib that could be hand loaded into the front of the prop. Everything else I hand made. The frame and most other parts are aluminum. Some of them we sent out to get gold plated. The scales are plexiglass and one side could be taken off to access the 9volt battery in the handle which powered an LED and the triggering of the squib.
On the bottom unneath the round, 4 hole emitter was a set screw. Undoing the set screw allowed the emitter to come out to load the squib.
Since Modern Props was a prop rental house, we would build things for cost, keep the prop, then rent it out again which is why you saw it in V - the original series.