I have this same kit built on a graflex reborn with crappy grips and a paint job meant to look weathered, but it's all gloss and looks wrong...
Always have meant to pull apart and redo.
Tom’s ROTJ Vader MOM saber!
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I have this same kit built on a graflex reborn with crappy grips and a paint job meant to look weathered, but it's all gloss and looks wrong...
Always have meant to pull apart and redo.
I love this thread. The MoM is itching again!
Yeah!
Was excited when I saw Tom's thread... not a lot of people still building these..
Scratch built version!
All from the tutorial online. pain to make the shroud, don't recommend. best to shapeways it.
I saw yours through google images - the tutorial kind of skips over the control box part, how did you make yours again?
I made it out of styrene... I think there are three levels. It was all kinds of insane.
I then got the kit part, and then could make sure it was identical to THAT... Surprisingly the only thing I had to do was trim a millimeter off each side... pretty accurate eyeballing :ninja
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I actually drilled all 12 holes on mine. it looks like they drilled out the big and small screws because they're all almost the same size. (the upper and lower ones on the MOM Saber.)
I eyeballed them for randomness
I think in the past it was believed it was a length of 1.5" tube sliced lengthwise and wrapped around the flash body.
I don't think it actually does anything to hold it together, more just covers up the L cuts in the Graflex and helps sell the "clamp" look.
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I don't think it actually does anything to hold it together, more just covers up the L cuts in the Graflex and helps sell the "clamp" look.
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I’m back buddy!
really excited to see all these great new threads, I got a lot of catching up to do Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have a master for the control box and shroud, but the molds busted a few years ago after sitting on my shelf forever. I'll have to dig it out of storage and see if there is any interest in some good resin casts.
Honestly I'm not sure, but I'd guess that whatever is inside the flash tube (perhaps another smaller tube?) along with the "control box" and the big hex screws are likely holding the two halves together in some way.
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I'm still waiting on some grips, might have found a source for a shroud and a 3D printed control box. I realized the box is kind-of what holds this thing together, so it's still sitting in two pieces lol
I plan on taking the 3D print of the control box to some electronics stores to see if they recognize it.
I plan on taking the 3D print of the control box to some electronics stores to see if they recognize it.
Alright folks, went to Shaner electric, who managed to find ballasts for my dads 70s bathroom bulbs and they guy looked at the 3 D print and sighed. He has no idea, his best guess was a micro switch and without part numbers he wouldn’t be able to even search.
so, yea I got the parts from shapeways. The control box is the only thing I ordered for this saber and is actually solid plastic, not a shell! Not half bad, and I’m tempted to use it without any other options.
i used VHB tape to stick on some 9cm grips, roughly scaled from the visual dictionary’s dimensions they typed out.
I used a gold colored bread pan to cut a brass disc (yes really) and with a dreamer cut off wheel...it came out looking pretty similar to the prop itself. That’s one of Roy’s d rings popped on there as well as his grips! I drilled all three once, riveted them together and then did the second hole from the beginning.
i used the old MOM pictures to line everything up and the holes on the prop really don’t line up in a like ESB fashion. I noticed when I started laying the t track on, the ones up top are centered and the ones on bottom are off to a side, like t was upside down or something.
weirdzzz anyways next comes the control box, a shroud and the d ring...the other one.
ooh! The motorcycle tire valves came and they’re too small, so I’m sticking with my original ones.
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I used a dremel. I do not make dreamers cut my lightsaber parts
so, yea I got the parts from shapeways. The control box is the only thing I ordered for this saber and is actually solid plastic, not a shell! Not half bad, and I’m tempted to use it without any other options.
i used VHB tape to stick on some 9cm grips, roughly scaled from the visual dictionary’s dimensions they typed out.
I used a gold colored bread pan to cut a brass disc (yes really) and with a dreamer cut off wheel...it came out looking pretty similar to the prop itself. That’s one of Roy’s d rings popped on there as well as his grips! I drilled all three once, riveted them together and then did the second hole from the beginning.
i used the old MOM pictures to line everything up and the holes on the prop really don’t line up in a like ESB fashion. I noticed when I started laying the t track on, the ones up top are centered and the ones on bottom are off to a side, like t was upside down or something.
weirdzzz anyways next comes the control box, a shroud and the d ring...the other one.
ooh! The motorcycle tire valves came and they’re too small, so I’m sticking with my original ones.
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I used a dremel. I do not make dreamers cut my lightsaber parts
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thanks halliwax! means a lot - I should have put up the colored photo of the endcap, the brass looks pretty fly beneath the kobold clip.
I'm going to drill and tap two screws through the control box and not glue it, that way, like a washer, I can just swap it out.
