Scott D
Sr Member
Have you ever seen the clip of George Lucas in the TPM behind the scenes footage where he says...
...after watching the rough cut of TPM for the first time? Well, those were the words going through my mind when I was doing the final assembly this one.
The inspiration began when Panaflex posted pictures of his military surplus black Graflite custom Lightsaber and I totally dug the look of it.
Graflites don't get a lot of love and I'm already not a fan of aluminum flash tubes, but I thought it still might be worth an attempt.
When an Ebay seller recently put up five 3 cell Graflites for $25.00 each, I bought one and I know SethS purchased one, as well. He called it "Taking the Graflite Challenge" and came up with an interesting design for his. Now it was my turn.
The original plan was to make a 100% black custom Lightsaber, but as you can see, it went in a different direction. Way different.
I see it being a "battlefield pick up." Something Lor San Tekka (Max Von Sydow's character in TFA) might have found during his travels throughout the galaxy. I consider this to to be a saber that belonged to one of the "bad guys." Not too sure if he would hold onto an item like this this. Too many darkside vibes.
There's a slight homage to Luke's Holiday Special version and to Vader's ROTJ version. The rest was more or less one big accident and I learned that Birchwood casey Aluminum Black can do really weird things.
It isn't my usual handiwork, but at least I took a chance and let this project turn into something...unusual.
So...is my entry in the Unofficial RPF Graflite Challenge a win or a fail?
...after watching the rough cut of TPM for the first time? Well, those were the words going through my mind when I was doing the final assembly this one.
The inspiration began when Panaflex posted pictures of his military surplus black Graflite custom Lightsaber and I totally dug the look of it.
Graflites don't get a lot of love and I'm already not a fan of aluminum flash tubes, but I thought it still might be worth an attempt.
When an Ebay seller recently put up five 3 cell Graflites for $25.00 each, I bought one and I know SethS purchased one, as well. He called it "Taking the Graflite Challenge" and came up with an interesting design for his. Now it was my turn.
The original plan was to make a 100% black custom Lightsaber, but as you can see, it went in a different direction. Way different.
I see it being a "battlefield pick up." Something Lor San Tekka (Max Von Sydow's character in TFA) might have found during his travels throughout the galaxy. I consider this to to be a saber that belonged to one of the "bad guys." Not too sure if he would hold onto an item like this this. Too many darkside vibes.
There's a slight homage to Luke's Holiday Special version and to Vader's ROTJ version. The rest was more or less one big accident and I learned that Birchwood casey Aluminum Black can do really weird things.
It isn't my usual handiwork, but at least I took a chance and let this project turn into something...unusual.
So...is my entry in the Unofficial RPF Graflite Challenge a win or a fail?
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