Ill make two versions. One will be designed for home printers. One will be designed for shapeways with super thin walls to reduce the price of WSF printing and you'll have to fill the model with resin once you receive the prints
Sail barge saber in March 2017 WIRED magazine?
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Ridire Firean
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Well, it's up on WIRED, not sure how great it is...
Here's the article...
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/super-expensive-hollywood-props/
Here's the article...
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/super-expensive-hollywood-props/
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Well you can definitely see the thin traces on the clamp card clearly on those pics... definitely reminiscent of the Luke ESB clamp card...
Ridire Firean
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HA! You can quadruple it! Or more, but it get's kinda big/blown out on my screen, here ya go though...
https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_8256/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/props6.jpg
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https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_8256/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/props6.jpg
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Ridire Firean
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I'm on it! Not sure if I'll get anywhere, but I'm trying to!
this is so cool!! Thanks for sharing!
1) I find it hilarious there is black overspray all over this. I thought the black was an undercoat.
2) there's metallic paint on the card, it appears this is white resin, so what were they thinking putting it between the leads?
3) is that copper....or gold....:lol
2) there's metallic paint on the card, it appears this is white resin, so what were they thinking putting it between the leads?
3) is that copper....or gold....:lol
That's definitely a dirty brass on the neck. I don't think any screen used sabers had copper. It's an urban legend propagated due to the fact that they painted the shared stunt neck copper after filming for exhibitions which was the used as the basis for a lot of Luke saber- related merch. Brass all the way, baby
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hmm
if by the V3 you mean the one with copper tape on the neck, yes. This casting has circular holes in the clamp area, just like the Shared Stunt, or V3.
What he said. That's what partsofsw.com called that saber. When I first heard the saber in question called the V3, I had to do a little head scratch. It seems to imply that it was "discovered" by the prop community after the V2, but I'm pretty sure the shared stunt was on public display well before the existence of the V2 was confirmed.
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I'm not fond of the term "V3" either but people seem to remember that more conveniently than the "Shared Stunt", though I do think the latter is more appropriate.
I like V3 just because technically both it and the V2 are shared stunts, so it helps me keep track of them.
So with this new one in the equation, does that sort of mess with the evolution of things? Correct away if this doesn't jive...
You have production starting with the Graflex, then correcting themselves and reached for shared stunt sabers. We've seen images of the first scene being shot recently, the sandstorm, with shots of Hamill with both a Graflex and then the V2. The V2 may have had paint scraped off from its ANH days, or maybe it was just worn after being used as a hammer at Echo Base.
It ended up as the belt hanger, while the V3 was intended to be the dueling stunt.
For some reason, maybe because of choreography, or different practical effect reasons, the V3 wouldn't work as well for the Sail Barge stunt sequences. Resin casts were made of the V3/SS and painted to resemble it. These were used for when Luke is jumping around, for the R2 launch, and when Luke slams against the side of the barge and starts to climb. In other words-- a stunt saber meant for actual stunts, not dueling or fighting.
When the saber is activated and swung around, since there was not another saber to duel with and actors were in the way, a stunt saber was made with a shorter rod. Made from scratch, a box was attached with two screws, and the rod was set inside. It was painted to resemble the V3/SS. This is the Yuma. There may have been more than one.
The Yuma, or one of its possible copies, was then cleaned up further and given the different box for the cave and/or ISYHCANL inserts.
So basically, it's what we've always known-- save for the fact that this new resin saber says that maybe all those copies we know were out in the desert were not based on the Yuma, but were based on the V3/SS.
Right?
So with this new one in the equation, does that sort of mess with the evolution of things? Correct away if this doesn't jive...
You have production starting with the Graflex, then correcting themselves and reached for shared stunt sabers. We've seen images of the first scene being shot recently, the sandstorm, with shots of Hamill with both a Graflex and then the V2. The V2 may have had paint scraped off from its ANH days, or maybe it was just worn after being used as a hammer at Echo Base.
It ended up as the belt hanger, while the V3 was intended to be the dueling stunt.
For some reason, maybe because of choreography, or different practical effect reasons, the V3 wouldn't work as well for the Sail Barge stunt sequences. Resin casts were made of the V3/SS and painted to resemble it. These were used for when Luke is jumping around, for the R2 launch, and when Luke slams against the side of the barge and starts to climb. In other words-- a stunt saber meant for actual stunts, not dueling or fighting.
When the saber is activated and swung around, since there was not another saber to duel with and actors were in the way, a stunt saber was made with a shorter rod. Made from scratch, a box was attached with two screws, and the rod was set inside. It was painted to resemble the V3/SS. This is the Yuma. There may have been more than one.
The Yuma, or one of its possible copies, was then cleaned up further and given the different box for the cave and/or ISYHCANL inserts.
So basically, it's what we've always known-- save for the fact that this new resin saber says that maybe all those copies we know were out in the desert were not based on the Yuma, but were based on the V3/SS.
Right?
