Another Kylo Ren Lightsaber Build! FINISHED

Right from that first teaser trailer of The Force Awakens, I loved Kylo's lightsaber. Then after seeing the film several times, I decided I needed to try my hand at building the saber.

For this build, I opted for a 3D print because I knew I wanted it to be quick and building it from scratch would have been quite the process. However, I am not the biggest fan of raw 3D printed pars so I knew I'd be spending a lot of time hiding any signs of it being 3d printed.

The print itself was ordered off of Etsy from a seller named 6123D. The print was fifteen bucks and mostly accurate (the back is actually very inaccurate so don't get it if you want perfect accuracy).

I started by giving the print a quick sand to get rid of any major imperfections and I also re-sculpted some details with Apoxie Sculpt that were lost in the printing process.




I also gave it two coats of Smooth-On's XTC-3D. This stuff is absolutely incredible and really allowed me to accelerate the clean-up process.



Now, I gave the parts a coat of primer. Unfortunately, it's the middle of Winter here and while there isn't snow, it is too cold for spray paint to dry properly. This is why I bought myself an airbrush kit. I also got some airbrush primer to go along with that and now I can paint props without Mother Nature getting in my way.



Now began the process of sanding, spot puttying, sanding, painting, sanding, puttying, sanding, painting . . .



That's all I've got for now but I'll be updating soon.

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Nice work!

Re: Another Kylo Ren Lightsaber Build! WIP

I continued the long process of cleaning up the 3D print with filler and primer. Somewhere in that process I took a quick break to throw together a plexiglass (I think it's plexiglass) stand for the saber to sit horizontally. It's just 5 pieces super glued together.






Now back to the saber! I gave it one final coat of white primer (still using that airbrush) and then I attached the main body pieces but I left the side emitters off so I could paint them separately. I filled in gaps between pieces with Apoxie Sculpt but it's difficult to see on the white primer.





Now the real painting began (because that primer nonsense doesn't count). I started with a base coat of flat black on the entire thing. This was done with Tamiya Acrylic paint thinned down and sprayed through my airbrush.



Now various pieces were masked off and brush painted with more Tamiya acrylic and some Testor's gold enamel.







Then I started to paint those super controversial side emitters. I based most of this paint job off of the Wired article I mentioned in the first post. The first step was a silver dusting on the edges. Again, this was Tamiya acrylic in my airbrush.



Now some gold was sprayed where that silver faded off.



Lastly, a thin blue line was added to simulate metal discoloration.



A bit of flat black was added to cover some of my over-spray. They kind of look ludicrous now but after weathering they'll look much better, trust me.



Now weathering! I started with some silver drybrushing and some oil paint washes.



More oils and acrylics got it to this.



That's all for now! It's really almost done, it just needs a bit more grime and some clear coat.

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And here are the pictures of the completed saber.













Thanks for reading!

Very nicely done!

deserthunter said:

Very nicely done!

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Thanks a bunch!

Very inspiring stuff here! How did you get the silver weathering on certain bits? Didn't see you mention anything about that.

vemnox said:

Very inspiring stuff here! How did you get the silver weathering on certain bits? Didn't see you mention anything about that.

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Oh, I must have forgotten that. It's just silver Testors enamel paint drybrushed on the edges