Defining the OWK tunisia saber. Is it even possible?
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That beige grenade does look like the Tunsia grenade, especially the top ring.
However screen caps from the Deathstar scenes show a grenade like the Chronicles/Art Dept grenade, making me think the saber was rebuilt after Tunsia.
However screen caps from the Deathstar scenes show a grenade like the Chronicles/Art Dept grenade, making me think the saber was rebuilt after Tunsia.
I meant more when he's pulling it out in the hallways or in the cantina, all the studio shots in England.
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I'm against the notion that there was one prop and it was rebuilt. First off. We know that they had two Vader sabers, and all of Prowes's scenes were filmed in one place. Guiness's scenes took place over two continents and in fairly remote locations. With only one built prop they run the risk of shutting down a location shoot and loosing money on time missed if anything happened to the prop. This is just not how movie finances work. There's always duplicates made. Even if they only use one prop throughout the course of shooting. There are always backups made. And when we see that every single part has a noticeable difference, to me, it can only indicate 2 distinct props.
I don't think anything can be ruled out.
We've been told there was only 1 Vader helmet made, and also told there were 2 helmets, yet only 1 ever appears in ANH and there are no photos of the 2nd one or the 2 together, yet all of Vaders scenes were shot in the same location.
And his helmet came off during the duel. Can you imagine what would have happened if it broke and it was the only one?
We've been told there was only 1 Vader helmet made, and also told there were 2 helmets, yet only 1 ever appears in ANH and there are no photos of the 2nd one or the 2 together, yet all of Vaders scenes were shot in the same location.
And his helmet came off during the duel. Can you imagine what would have happened if it broke and it was the only one?
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I wouldn't say nobody... Might have even called a junk dealer over there at one point.
I also think it culd be a 54mm diameter male size emitter.
It makes me think the saber is probably used on death star, and would be the saber with the cone, because the weird grenade seems to be on that saber, and the emitter diameter looks a bit smaller too you can check there are two sabers here, I mean on the grey background views, one of them looks like the archive saber, with slope on grenade body and back hollow emitter core, and another with emitter cone, "looks like a weird" grenade, and "would be smaller, yes, but no way to get sure it's a male" emitter.
I think it can be possible some males to have a slope on the back, or females to be smaller, because nobody get enough loose parts and made enough comparations to get sure the models had unique design, as for the grenades, and the 4 emitters I get in hands have shows sone later modifications, especially on front, where there was some shiny areas and other weathered from older machining, there were also hand engravings on all emitters.
Here's an experiment to chew on. An OWK saber with the no-slope Hales grenade and a Male Derwent Balance Pipe. Let me know what you think
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