Show off thread real parts OWK ANH Tunisia saber

[Anakin Starkiller]

I thought I'd show off my new prop. It's my interpretation of OWK's ANH Tunisia saber. I built it with a real no.3 MK II grenade to replicate the long grooved frag body seen on the tunisia pics. It also has a real graflex clamp, real AS handwheel, and real calc bubbles. Everything is chemically weathered and I really like th look of the blueing on the grenade, stem and emmiter. I think it makes for a very appealing real world look.

Unfortunately it's gonna go to e-bay soon. But I thought I'd see what you guys thought of it first.

-best

Dan Stokes

 

[firebladejedi]

Nice :love

 

[RickyB]

Yes the weathering has come out very nice indeed, its an awesome looking saber. :thumbsup

 

[DL 44 Blaster]

Fantastic!!! You've been a busy little bee lately:cool

 

[MooCriket]

I love it. Before I had read what you posted, while just looking at the pictures...I was thinking that it was a found/used/weathered left over Jedi saber from the clone wars.

Great Job:thumbsup

 

[Darth_cepe]

the weatering on the greanade is awesme me im partial to the slightly used look
but that seems to be looking very cool way to go on the reallness

 

[OdiWan72]

cool :thumbsup

Markus

 

[rmschneider104]

Very cool. Looks great. Did you consider weathering up the hand wheel? It might be a bit too shiny compared to the rest of the saber.

 

[TV8]

That's some serious real world weathering! The clamp in particular looks spot on. Hope that grenade is decommissioned

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

I have an extra of that model grenade, never thought about using it on a saber.

Weathering looks great for the Tunsia saber.

Why is it going to ebay ?

 

[p0sitr0nic]

Beautiful. The OB1 is slowly becomming my favorite saber.

 

[phase pistol]

No true Jedi would allow his lightsaber to fall into such a dishonorable state of rust and neglect. :sleep

But that's crazy Old Ben for ya! :lol

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

No true Jedi would allow his lightsaber to fall into such a dishonorable state of rust and neglect. :sleep

But that's crazy Old Ben for ya! :lol

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys.

Yeah the grenade shows it's age. But that makes it a good candidate for the Tunisia saber, which was in a pretty rough shape. Plus I love the fact that the "weathering" was done by sitting in French soil for 80 sum odd years. How many guys put that much work into getting a prop just right :lol

BTW- it's on e-bay now if anyone is interested.

Dan Stokes

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

I thought about taking my #20 Mk2 frag body and cutting down the threaded base of the neck of a replica #3 Mk1 for a useable 'real parts' grenade. I think I've found new inspiration to pick-up this as a project.

 

[hearts]

Great job!:eek
ANH OWK is my best favorite saber:love
Very beautiful weathering!
Nice balance weathering real & replica parts:thumbsup

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

I have an extra of that model grenade, never thought about using it on a saber.

Weathering looks great for the Tunsia saber.

Why is it going to ebay ?

Basically I'm in need of cash. I had some unexpected medical issues recently (woke up suddenly deaf in my left ear, with still no explanation) and I could use some extra money in my back account, so I've been finishing off a few projects that have been on the back burner and putting them up for sale.

But also, I've too many props projects right now and some just have to go. A man can only have so many OWK ANH sabers. Right

Dan

 

[missileman]

Wow, sorry to hear about your ear.

Great job on the Sabre though, I hope it brings you much cash.

 

[clancampbell]

Fantastic work! OWK ANH is one of my faves.
Rich

 

[PHArchivist]

The ORIGINAL "hardware saber"...