Star Wars Oregon
Public Information => The Imperial Cantina => Topic started by: josephernst2 on December 18, 2016, 12:21:23 PM
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A friend of mine saw the lightsabers I made for my daughter and myself for Halloween (she was Ahsoka Tano from clone wars) and asked if I could make 2 for her to give her kids for Christmas. After thinking about it for half a second I thought, sweet an excuse to make more!
All PVC construction. I wanted to do something different, so I made the core of the hilt look like wood. (http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161218/8434e7b401d56e3a518f605a517f9d4f.jpg)
This one I really like. All PVC, except for the blade holder is a galvanized electrical part. I used a blue enamel for the first layer of paint followed by 2 layers of silver. Wet sand, another layer of silver, wet sand then clear coated. I sanded the hilt core with 220 then wet sanded for a smooth finish. Then 3 coats of gloss black.
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Here are all 4 of the sabers I have made so far.
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I'm done with lightsaber smithing for a while. I'm going to order some cree LED's off Amazon with some optics eventually when I start again. But now I'm gearing up for my first pep file fiberglass project. It is obi wans CW armor set, and I'll be making molds for reproduction. After that I'll need to get my hands on the elusive kotor Jedi armor file, I don't want to fork out the $40 for the file though. Anyone know of any other sites that might have it?
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Those are some nice looking lightsabers. Nice job!
You're looking for the Jedi armor from Star Wars: The Old Republic? I think there are some free files out there, though I'm not sure where but I seem to remember seeing them. There are also a couple people who make the armor kits if you don't want to have to actually build each piece yourself.
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Thank you Blue Leader that means a lot. There aren't any other star wars geeks up here (none that I've met anyways)
I saw a guy selling the finished kits but most of the fun for me is constructing every aspect. I have read that the sith armor is the same accept for the guantlets.
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great looking sabers!
what did you use for electronics?
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These cree LED flashlights. They are cheap, simple and the right size diameter. I bought a 4 pack off Amazon for $10. They are the cree q5.
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very cool!
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Out of curiosity, what would one of these lightsabers sell for do you think? Probably not much but I'm curious.
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