color in daylight!

[sithlord7768]

hey,

I just completed my conversion on my ESB force fx...it is now an EP3 Force Fx modified with luxeon 3 star white...well i had an issue...during a troop my blade looked very dull and almost white!...and at one troop where it was in a darker area i looked like a was holding a pink saber...not too impressive for darth!

so I made some adjustments....

I made a new color disk out of a cheap store bought flashlight that came with a very dark red lense and a dark blue lens as well...I also very carefully cut the tip of my blade, fastened a morror supplied by the wonderous custom saber shop...and re glued it in place...that worked great for making the saber red in the dark...it looked great as a matter of fact! but it still looked pink in the daylight...so what to do what to do????well I bought myslef some red tissue paper and painstakenly inserted it inbetween the diffuser and the plastic tube! all problems solved...check it out....also notice how I changed everything i could to make it look more ROTS...

natural light no flash saber on

lights off slow shutter speed on tripod

hilt shot in ambiant lighting no flash saber on

hilt shot...saber on w/flash


John "JD"
SL/TK-7768

...now you see that evil will always triumph...because good is dumb!

[The Beast]

cool man[]

Yo, i´m a newbee so please be patient.

[Nightwing]

Awesome!

A little messy-lookin', but it does look very episode 3-ish. Shouldn't be too hard to clean it up.

[UltraSWG]

You can make a "day glow" blade out of colored acrylic for those trooping days. And it will still light up nicely. It just won't take very hard dueling, but who really duels while trooping?

Here's a link:

http://www.delviesplastics.com/colored%20cast%20rod.htm

http://www.ultrasabers.com
Corbin|Strydur|Ultra
The Holy Luxeon Trinity

[Firebird21]

Try going to your local music instrument store and get some colored gel... Use it as you defuser and you should be golden.

I will now get some links for this post...

Gels

method to use

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[xwingband]

Where would they have colored gel in an instrument store?[?] I'm an avid trumpet player and I've never seen that.

EDIT: ah... that's lighting junk. That's the stuff they'd have in a "music" store that has more guitars than anything else.[]

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[Firebird21]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by xwingband

Where would they have colored gel in an instrument store?[?] I'm an avid trumpet player and I've never seen that.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Sorry, my local Gordon's Music sells instruments and DJ Equipment.

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[xwingband]

Edited while you posted...[]

Sithlord, are you the same one from TFN? I thought I recognized the saber.[] You might want to check in on all the guys loving that Rubies suit in misc topics.[]

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[thestr8metaledge]

sweet saber...and for the record, seeing that Spaceballs quote at the end made my day lol

[sithlord7768]

yes the very same...ill check that! lol

John "JD"
SL/TK-7768

...now you see that evil will always triumph...because good is dumb!