Hi,
My name is Roy and I’m new to the RPF. I am Dutch and live and work in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I was 7 years old when Star Wars came out. It has always been an enormous inspiration for my career.
I recently was watching some Adam Savage Tested videos on Youtube (Bladerunner blaster!) and got very inspired by props building. My interest was always more related to the star ships, machines and the original art work of the movies, but now I got the virus of the replicas and started investigating it.
The Obi-Wan ANH lightsaber story of the original prop and replicas totally intrigued me. I deeply respect all the work and effort that you guys put into this. It’s overwhelming!
I definitely want to own a replica myself, but I thought, the first thing within my reach is to build a computer model and create some renderings of it, since this is what I’m used to do and what I know well. So I started looking at all the reference material and created this model in CAD (Solidworks) and rendered it in Keyshot. I want to make the most accurate CAD model of the original saber as possible. This is my first trial. I rendered it both weathered and ‘as new’. I hope you like it!
It isn’t accurate yet, since I couldn’t verify all the part dimensions, but once I have a proper replica I will update the model. I am thinking of uploading the CAD files for anybody who might think it’s useful. The renderings make some good wallpapers
Roy
My name is Roy and I’m new to the RPF. I am Dutch and live and work in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I was 7 years old when Star Wars came out. It has always been an enormous inspiration for my career.
I recently was watching some Adam Savage Tested videos on Youtube (Bladerunner blaster!) and got very inspired by props building. My interest was always more related to the star ships, machines and the original art work of the movies, but now I got the virus of the replicas and started investigating it.
The Obi-Wan ANH lightsaber story of the original prop and replicas totally intrigued me. I deeply respect all the work and effort that you guys put into this. It’s overwhelming!
I definitely want to own a replica myself, but I thought, the first thing within my reach is to build a computer model and create some renderings of it, since this is what I’m used to do and what I know well. So I started looking at all the reference material and created this model in CAD (Solidworks) and rendered it in Keyshot. I want to make the most accurate CAD model of the original saber as possible. This is my first trial. I rendered it both weathered and ‘as new’. I hope you like it!
It isn’t accurate yet, since I couldn’t verify all the part dimensions, but once I have a proper replica I will update the model. I am thinking of uploading the CAD files for anybody who might think it’s useful. The renderings make some good wallpapers
Roy