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