Show your custom Lightsabers!
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this came out beautiful! i love it
Great find. I'd been checking these out on eBay a while back but never pulled the trigger. I can't wait to see what you end up doing.
Great design. Defiantly very authentic feeling
This one's a work in progress, but I figured it was done enough to start posting some pics. I still need to finish the control box and I might still do a bit more with the emitter. The basis for this saber is a Heiland flash. I stripped most of the paint off of a spare Heiland shroud, inserted some colored wire into the sync ports and whatnot, used some Todd's Costumes t-track, and the leftover ANH-style d-ring from my Graflex 2.0 kit.
soul products
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So far I've made two. The first I did in like 3 hours for the premier so it's a little more thrown together
The second one I put far more time and effort into it's design
They both had some simple electronics in them, sound, light, etc. but sadly the speaker broke in the first (silver lining, cool flashlight) and the circuit board shorted out on the second
I've got one more that I'm in the process of designing as well as something I think may be new to Star Wars but they're both a ways off.
The second one I put far more time and effort into it's design
They both had some simple electronics in them, sound, light, etc. but sadly the speaker broke in the first (silver lining, cool flashlight) and the circuit board shorted out on the second
I've got one more that I'm in the process of designing as well as something I think may be new to Star Wars but they're both a ways off.
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Zaan
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Very sleek and old Republic in appearance! Well done
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Watching Darth Saber's.. uh.. saber come together REALLY makes me want to find a way to to diameter grips on a flash tube.
I came up with something vaguely t-trackish.
What do you guys think? Cool? Or hardware janky?
Just a test, no feelings are attached.
I came up with something vaguely t-trackish.
What do you guys think? Cool? Or hardware janky?
Just a test, no feelings are attached.
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Maybe if you could put something over those strips like a heat shrink material, that would give it a good look.
Ebay... Though this one was only the second ever I've ever seen of this type of flash gun on there. The only other time, it was as a part of a camera kit and I couldn't convince the seller to part with it separately.
The Death Angel
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Time for a story and epic update!
You may or may not recall these builds from a few weeks ago:
Meant for my kid, I cooked up this story in my head about a Jedi with a kid on the run and hunted, and the kid had to learn to fight, hence building their own saber. Then I made the second after wondering if bad guys/Sith/Ren?Dark Jedi/Whatever were also maybe trained from a young age. That's how I got these two.
I swear I'm not writing a fanfic, but the story won't shake loose from my head.
What if these were actually siblings? One light, one dark. It's a running theme in Star Wars, right?
So then I thought-- what about the parents? What if the parents were Jedi-- but one of them fell to the darkside? Say it was mom who turned evil, and took the son with her-- and corrupted him into being evil as well. And they are trying to hunt down Dad/daughter, who are still Jedi.
I decided to let that guide/challenge me to build my next couple of customs. The idea was to create sabers for either parent, good and evil, that matched these two so that it felt like the kids built their own sabers looking to their parents as a guide.
But at the same time, the parents should have similar cues as well if they were once partners, meaning there should be a sense of similarity between all 4 sabers, with two being clearly dark, and two being light.
Here's where that lead me. First-- the "light" parent's saber:
And the "dark"...
And a family portrait...
The builds, from top down--
Good Dad:
TCSS blade holder (got out of curiosity-- worked great on a 2 cell!)
Minicam 2 D-Cell
D-ring
Texture tape
Zeiss Ikon clamp with various greeblies painted black to hold the clamp screw
Odyessy Video game cartridge edge card
Bubbles from a Blast Tech MPP clamp
T-track from shapeways, designed by @AnubisGuard for his own D-Cell minicam
pop rivets
o-rings to hide some seams
Bad Mom:
Nikonos bulb holder for emitter
Heiland shorty shroud
Graflite Military black extension/slave
Some greebles
Texture tape
mylar tape
Canon B-II 2 D cell
MPP clamp from TCSS
Bubbles from a TI calculator
t-track with hex head bolts
1/4" d-ring mount
o-rings to hide some seams
You may or may not recall these builds from a few weeks ago:
Meant for my kid, I cooked up this story in my head about a Jedi with a kid on the run and hunted, and the kid had to learn to fight, hence building their own saber. Then I made the second after wondering if bad guys/Sith/Ren?Dark Jedi/Whatever were also maybe trained from a young age. That's how I got these two.
I swear I'm not writing a fanfic, but the story won't shake loose from my head.
What if these were actually siblings? One light, one dark. It's a running theme in Star Wars, right?
So then I thought-- what about the parents? What if the parents were Jedi-- but one of them fell to the darkside? Say it was mom who turned evil, and took the son with her-- and corrupted him into being evil as well. And they are trying to hunt down Dad/daughter, who are still Jedi.
I decided to let that guide/challenge me to build my next couple of customs. The idea was to create sabers for either parent, good and evil, that matched these two so that it felt like the kids built their own sabers looking to their parents as a guide.
But at the same time, the parents should have similar cues as well if they were once partners, meaning there should be a sense of similarity between all 4 sabers, with two being clearly dark, and two being light.
Here's where that lead me. First-- the "light" parent's saber:
And the "dark"...
And a family portrait...
The builds, from top down--
Good Dad:
TCSS blade holder (got out of curiosity-- worked great on a 2 cell!)
Minicam 2 D-Cell
D-ring
Texture tape
Zeiss Ikon clamp with various greeblies painted black to hold the clamp screw
Odyessy Video game cartridge edge card
Bubbles from a Blast Tech MPP clamp
T-track from shapeways, designed by @AnubisGuard for his own D-Cell minicam
pop rivets
o-rings to hide some seams
Bad Mom:
Nikonos bulb holder for emitter
Heiland shorty shroud
Graflite Military black extension/slave
Some greebles
Texture tape
mylar tape
Canon B-II 2 D cell
MPP clamp from TCSS
Bubbles from a TI calculator
t-track with hex head bolts
1/4" d-ring mount
o-rings to hide some seams
