Glorious Hunter
with NEC's Spark
Hey saberfans!
Here is a MHS build that I just finished after a couple of months work.
While working on my saberstaff project (which I didn't update for a while in the A to Z build section of this forum :P), I decided to ditch a MHS 5" extension from its design (replaced by a MHS coupler prototype).
So I wanted to take profit of that extension and its activation box in order to build another MHS saber from it.
I came up with a design I wanted to try and test. I also wanted to try a brass shroud, make a crystal chamber with a blade matching color crystal, an easy access to the soundboard.
I'm pretty happy with the result
[EDIT] Small update: Limited Edition Brass Blade Plug finally came in, so here a few new pictures to celebrate ^^
Specs
- MHS hilt
- black and gold paint - emitter, body and activation box.
- Custom brass shroud
- X-4 RRGB main Led
- Dice swap for up to 6 blade color
- 2 RGB accent Leds
- Custom crystal chamber
- Spark soundboard
- Single 18650 Cell
- 3D printed kill key
- 2W Bass Mini Speaker
- 7/8" SaberBlade
Full A to Z build log can be seen on my website for those interested (too many pictures lol).
Photos
Some build in progress pictures:
First test, while waiting for the new MHS parts to arrive
Setting up Dice Swap with golden pins (Check here for more info)
How it looks now, when removing the upper hilt part.
Gives a pretty easy access to Park's SD card and Dice Swap pins.
The board is secured and held to the chassis with Nitto tape
(not electrical tape that most dislike in builds, this one is like a heatshrink tape, it's very thin and perfect for the small 1.15" ID of the extension)
Repainted the activation box, keeping the same strip but in gold.
Here is the completed chassis with the custom crystal chamber.
Won't go into details here, but I'm very happy how it turned out.
The "crystal is a small piece of glass, naturally polished by the sea, which I found in my hometown beach... gives a special and unique meaning to it ^^.
I cut a small window in the main hilt section to be able to see that chamber.
I did not go for a full reveal as I wanted to keep to overall build strong enough for playing with it.
Main shroud randomly came out of my mind, I'm pleased that it went ok at the 1st attempt, cause those things take so much time
Thanks for watching,
Cheers
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