I've start the sourcing for all the stuff needed, especially chemicals products... and unfortunatly sculpt nouveau doesn't ship to France ... -_-'
Will need to find an another seller.
This tutorial is awesome...many thanks!
Once I will tackle my new (and hopefully final) V2, I will try to pay attention to all your tips and tricks.
The only thing I´ll probably do different is NOT adding all the physical damage to the saber.
I personally prefer the look of a prop "as seen on screen" and not as it is now. That´s a BIG issue for all of us prop-builders, since many reference pictures are taken -decades- AFTER filming and show details, which are not present on the pop at the actual time of filming.
In the end it all depends on what YOU want a prop to look like/ what character you want to give it...my personal stuff will be an amalgation of details most of the times.
Keep the pics/ posts coming halliwax, it is going to be EPIC!
Yes it's almost for security restriction.
I already bought aluminium black in little bottle (3oz) but it comes by road and in a little quantity ... As it's a "commercial product" and not a professional one like sculpt nouveau said, i'll need to have to make a stronger mix.
Thanks for the advice, will take an eye on it
Thanks Danny!! Great tutorial. Especially the heating before the hammering of the emitter is a good tip. For the chemical aging I will be using the caustic soda, which is a dangerous process as well!
That ratio has proven itself to me! Be sure to wear goggles, gloves and mask! This is some nasty stuff.
Turns my stomach when around it, it started down pouring today so we moved everything inside my shed. Put a fan in the window and it still stunk..
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Hoping to do the 'carbonite' dip on my next day off but I've been beating up the rest of the saber in the meantime using Danny's techniques along with some extra 'kicking around the drive' general light weathering Managed to use the vice at work today to dent up the emitter and I'm pretty happy with how it looks, managed to match the FX emitter pretty well too:
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And here I was fighting with the shop over and over, telling them that i wouldn't accept any parts that hadn't received white glove treatment:lol
Does anyone have some clear stills of the emitter as it was in RoTJ? Thinking of going for the more screen accurate look versus how the prop looks now.