why wont it work for me :cry
I ran it through a normal cycle with heat dry. I'm not sure if this makes a difference but I always put the dish detergent tablet on the bottom of the dishwasher instead of in the soap door.
why wont it work for me :cry
Yeah I've tried several variations of heat, heavy wash, drying etc, and it always comes out just dull and whiter, not darkened. Maybe its because I have a crappy apartment dishwasher. Did you lean the saber with anything beforehand? Acetone?
I do have hard water at my place but I hadn't done anything to the hilt beforehand. I placed the hilt on the top rack for a normal cycle with no extra rinse but had heat dry (that sucker was HOT). I used Reeva Dishwasher Powder Packs. It's an off brand that is available at Aldi's.
Maybe you have a really efficient dishwasher and the rest of ours suck!
Well my washer is at least 10 years old, so I doubt it's anything fancy. I'll have to try it in my mother's washer and see if I get anything different if the aluminum black doesnt come out even.
i think we should have sundowner wash all of our V2's! :$
FInally i received the chunk from printer. I 3D modeled it after the seeing Hamill pop culture quest video captures which shows a larger and not squared chape than the one i had.
I printed in "stainless steel" The truth is that is 60% steel and 40% bronze so the final color is slightly different than steel, but is barely apreciable.
Even less is you weather it with some aluminium black or thinned paint. (Mine is not weathered)
The bad thing is that it came too rough and with coarse grain over it. I have used my dremel to sand and polish it a bit and this is the result.
You can see in the following pictures.
If some of you want one, i would consider to offer a few just at production cost (shapeways price)
Hope you like it
EDIT: I forgot, shapeways price is $7.42 plus shipping.
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$7.42? For the whole saber?
okay I was gonna say loljust the mystery chunk
Trying to decide where the dark brown should start and stop on the neck. From this enhanced and oversaturated pic, it seems pretty clear the gold originally stopped where the emitter piece rotates. You can see the change to black.
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But what about where it ends going down past the windvane? Would the bottom of the windvane be the same color, does it extend down to the next thin neck piece or not? I havent been able to find any clear enough Obi shots to determine.
While hard to see, I think he lower portion is black in this photo, but it's hard to sayAny thoughts on this?