So this is what I've managed to cobble together of the last few days. It's a quite literal interpretation of Asajj Ventress' lightsaber (one of them, anyway) based on the design originally depicted in the 2003 Clone Wars micro-series.
To those unfamiliar or just simply forgot, this is what it originally looked like:
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And here is my depiction of the thing, made with things on-hand to keep in vein of the original lightsabers, including but not limited to vintage camera flashes. And as far as I'm aware, for the last 14 years, this may be the first attempt at it. Though I wanted to make it feel real-world like the original sabers, my main intention was to keep its simple animated quality and not deviate too far off course its design. Of course, within the realms of the real and pre-fabricated.
I like to think I succeeded.
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Again, this was made with things I just conveniently had on hand. The body segments are hacked up remains of left-over Graflite from my Graf-Staff-Saber build and an old vacuum extension hose; the neck is the interior gizmo from an extra Heiland flash I bought for the endcap (for my ESB Heiland conversion); the ignition button is also from the same Heiland flash. The emitter is just some left over alu tubing I had from my Canon builds cut down and stuck to the rubber thing, that originally was stuck on the end of the Heiland bulb gizmo, and the whole assembly was topped onto some washers and secured into a little plumbing bit I popped into the neck with a screw. Finally, the endcap is from the Vader Heiland conversion I couldn't bring myself to throw out. What's not pictured is the small washer that takes the place of the female adapter I stole from it.
The segments were initially glued together immediately after hacking and then back-filled with resin over a bent steel pipe I used as a spine for the thing to keep its shape. Needless to say, the thing is like 70's slang: solid and
heavy! And because of that and its shape, it isn't very comfortable to hold for long, I'm afraid. I can't help but laugh at it; I like it but it is a bit too cumbersome.
I may or mayn't mold this to make a duplicate just to complete the set in future. Much of the decisions I made during this ended with "...To Hell with it" and I suspect that will be the response I'll have for myself concerning ideas for this thing in future.
Oh, well. I'll have blasters to work on until I make up my mind.