I'm planning on joining the 501st sometime soon as a Royal Guard and obviously need a force pike. There seems to be fairly little around in terms of concrete parts/measurements of the original 'hero' prop.
I found a thread comparing a picture of force pike blueprints from Star Wars: The Blueprints to a behind the scenes image picking out the various similarities and suggesting that the blueprint was reasonably legit and modelled up a pike based on the less than ideal picture and extrapolated measurements from the labelled 7/8 bore.
Shown here is the blueprint/photo comparison from the forcepike.net thread:
and here is a render of my model from these prints:
Looks reasonably close to me, although there is some evidence that the pommel and one of the wedge sections aren't cylindrical but faceted with flat sections.
The tip detail was seemingly identified in this thread https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=132759 although the specific model doesn't seem to have been identified yet.
I've worked up a model from the original prop reference images found in that thread although obviously there's no way to confirm any of the dimensions with the original part still missing, although one could probably argue that the top section might be a morse taper and extrapolate from there:
Other than the threads mentioned in this one, research/info/reference seems fairly sparse on this prop, if I've missed any new developments or if anybody has a decent scan of the blueprint shown above or more info etc. please let me know
I found a thread comparing a picture of force pike blueprints from Star Wars: The Blueprints to a behind the scenes image picking out the various similarities and suggesting that the blueprint was reasonably legit and modelled up a pike based on the less than ideal picture and extrapolated measurements from the labelled 7/8 bore.
Shown here is the blueprint/photo comparison from the forcepike.net thread:
and here is a render of my model from these prints:
Looks reasonably close to me, although there is some evidence that the pommel and one of the wedge sections aren't cylindrical but faceted with flat sections.
The tip detail was seemingly identified in this thread https://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=132759 although the specific model doesn't seem to have been identified yet.
I've worked up a model from the original prop reference images found in that thread although obviously there's no way to confirm any of the dimensions with the original part still missing, although one could probably argue that the top section might be a morse taper and extrapolate from there:
Other than the threads mentioned in this one, research/info/reference seems fairly sparse on this prop, if I've missed any new developments or if anybody has a decent scan of the blueprint shown above or more info etc. please let me know
