Rebels: Ezra's Season 3 lightsaber

[Howlrunner]

I haven't seen anyone post one of these, so I'm posting up mine that I just finished painting.

Anyone who's seen Season 3 of Rebels will know that Ezra gets a haircut and a new lightsaber. I was lucky enough to be given a 3D printed kit of his new saber by one of my friends for Christmas. The 3D file was created by CaseStudyno8 and is available from Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1809989

Reference images for this saber (unlike Ezra's previous saber-blaster) are few and far between. This is the best I could come up with:

From this, I noticed a couple of tweaks that needed made to the 3D model.

I started by modifying the emitter by adding a section of body spray cap which was the PERFECT diameter, cutting off the base of the "nozel" part and cutting a ring from a sheet of styrene:

The neck part of the saber also did not match the screen cap references, so I made replacements in Sketchup and my friend printed them:

I also didn't like the 3D printed connector pins, so those were dremelled out and replaced with copper rivets. And the 3 horizontal vents (?) on the side of the handle opposite the red switch were missing, so I dremelled those in.

I painted it to look weathered (and used paints that are a lot darker than the colours the designer on Thingiverse used - but look more screen-accurate to my eye) and I drilled the hole for the tri-ring in the pommel and made a tri-ring from an old wire coat-hanger.

Done.

 

[canister]

nice job, looks great!

 

[Halliwax]

beautiful job! i love this saber. you did a excellent job "accuratizing" it! i never noticed the vents before! very cool

 

[Fanofstarwars]

Any chance you could post this updated version on thingverse or shape ways?

 

[Luuke]

Excellent job.

 

[Howlrunner]

I could post up the 3D parts that I did for the "grenade" section of the neck, but I do not have modified 3D files for the emitter, or triple-vent section, as those were all done by hand AFTER the Thingiverse 3D files were printed.

Any chance you could post this updated version on thingverse or shape ways?

 

[Fanofstarwars]

I could post up the 3D parts that I did for the "grenade" section of the neck, but I do not have modified 3D files for the emitter, or triple-vent section, as those were all done by hand AFTER the Thingiverse 3D files were printed.

Will you mold cast and possibly sell it also is it a hollow hilt?

 

[cboath]

I think it's pretty dang good too.

I don't think the grenade part is a grenadish like that..but i like that better. The shots look like simple raised areas. I went through the first 8 eps or so frame by frame to pull out the detail shots. That area had very little.

But like I said, i like yours better. Looks pretty good.

 

[BudaFett]

That's a wonderfully designed lightsaber, the 3D print looks great too.

 

[CT1138]

Wonderful! I was hoping somebody would be creating this lightsaber eventually.

 

[Howlrunner]

Will you mold cast and possibly sell it also is it a hollow hilt?

No, I will not be molding or casting this saber. It is a solid hilt (well, 3D printed honey-comb infill).

I think it's pretty dang good too.

I don't think the grenade part is a grenadish like that..but i like that better. The shots look like simple raised areas. I went through the first 8 eps or so frame by frame to pull out the detail shots. That area had very little.

But like I said, i like yours better. Looks pretty good.View attachment 703347

Yeah, I had a terrible time finding reference images - everything was either blurred, obscurred by Ezra's hand, obscurred by the blade's glow, or too small to make out any details. I could see that the was horizontal AND vertical lines (original 3D file was/is missing any vertical lines) but couldn't get any detail shots to see exactly what was going on, so I did my best to match what I thought I could make out, and leaned it towards Obi Wan's grenade section as that would make sense design-wise. You're right, my version is definitely not totally accurate (as your fantstsic screen=cap shows), but it's better than what it started as, and I kinda like the OT tie-in with a grenade.

 

[cboath]

I have to rework mine a bit. The area where his hand is covering it in the pic above wasn't shown when i modeled mine. When it's done, i'll make it available on shapeways at the very least.

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I have to rework mine a bit. The area where his hand is covering it in the pic above wasn't shown when i modeled mine. When it's done, i'll make it available on shapeways at the very least.