Galen Marek sink-tube Starkiller

[Darth Midian]

Hey Ghost, I did use wood trim my pvc version. I used the black abs plastic pipe on my MHS Starkiller. It's not to bad making the long cuts. I made my cuts just outside the lines on the gragh paper & sanded it down to the line. Here's the link for my MHS Starkiller.
http://forums.thecustomsabershop.com...irst-MHS-Saber.

[ghost_a*]

awesome! thx for teh link, checking it out now.

[Darth Midian]

Awesome.

[ghost_a*]

midian, what'd you end up using for the control box?
i was looking at going with Activation Box Style 1 http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/Ac...le-1-P354.aspx
but i'm wondering if it'll be too tall.

[Darth Midian]

Ghost, I just used some aluminum channel rail. I cut it down a little bit with my Dremel so it wouldn't be so tall, primed & paited it.

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*snip irrelevant information :P*

Nice IM poster

[Tarrell]

Nice IM poster

Wore my IM shirt today because i saw this,

[ghost_a*]

thought i'd actually post in my own thread for once, hahahha

here's an update:

i scrapped the idea of shaping strips of black ABS piping for the grips.
i gave it a go, but the result was mediocre at best. just looked really, really amateur and crappy to be completely honest.
xanatos gave me the idea of finding some kind of square rod. i searched around and found some 3/16" steel keystock.
i cut 4 lengths of it and drilled the 2 mounting holes per grip.
taped them onto the hilt for an idea of how they'd feel look and they turned out GREAT.
i still need to buff the ends of them a bit and paint them black before i permanently mount them.

i also went and got some "aged copper" metallic spraypaint, with some satin black, so i can start painting my PVC inner as well as the grips and the copper/black rings on the base hilt.

the next major task will be the crystal chamber.
i got a couple nylon washers that i'll have to sand down the perimeters to so they'll fit into the PVC.
i also got some other random tinkets to build the chamber itself, and i have a quartz crystal that i'll sit in there.

[ghost_a*]

*UPDATE WITH PICS*

okay, so i cut my grips from a 3 foot length of 3/16" square keystock, buffed 'em and painted 'em.
also painted the black stripe around the hilt.
still need to pain the copper stripe before i permanently mount the grips. as of now they're just hanging off of the custom "tack pin" mounts i added.

here's some pics of the tack pin mounts that i did.
basically drilled two pin-sized holes per grip in the hilt.
then modified metal thumb tacks to the right size/shape.
loctite glue gel'd them from the inside of the tube so they protrude out of it.

then i drilled 2 1/16" holes per grip in the underside of each grip.
i plan on gorilla cementing them in when i've painted the copper stripe just above the black stripe on my hilt.

as it stands now they're just sitting/hanging on the tacks.

remaining tasks:

1. crystal chamber (biggest thing)
2. control box: i bought a length of aluminum u-channel from the store that i'm going to use as a base, then figure out a cap/cover for it. i'll JB weld it to the tube and mount one of my switches in it
3. bunny ears: i've shaped them, but i'm not happy so i'm going to redo them, then mount them with JB weld
4. switch in the lower hilt for reverse grip
5. econo board internals
6. paint PVC chassis

without further adieu here's the next set of pics. first set is the thumb tack mounting method, second are the grip pics.

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[ghost_a*]

apparently you can only attach a max of 5 pics per post, so here are the grip pics.
technically this isnt' a double post

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