Stormtrooper/Kamino-ish saber progress thread

**aquilaprime** · 05-29-2009, 01:23 PM

Seeing the pics of the assembled pieces reminded me of the pic below.

Has anyone ever built a Force-sensitive Trooper saber out of MHS compnents?

I always thought it was a cool looking saber.

Can anyone here take credit for creating it?

**sithlordfaust** · 05-29-2009, 03:14 PM

I really like your saber. dont see many in this scheme

Ive been really leaning towards the stormtrooper/clone wars white and black motif

heres one I did a bit ago

Im gonna be running with this scheme for a while

**Sairon** · 05-29-2009, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by aquilaprime

Seeing the pics of the assembled pieces reminded me of the pic below.

Has anyone ever built a Force-sensitive Trooper saber out of MHS compnents?

I always thought it was a cool looking saber.

Can anyone here take credit for creating it?

Roy's Blues does sabers like those but with light!

**Sethski** · 05-29-2009, 03:50 PM

Aquaprime - The force sensitive stormtrooper/clone concept saber was a major influence.

I've not had a chance to do much with it yet - I painted in the 2 black bands at the pommel end and the pomel insert with matt black enamel, which is more satin than really matt to my eye.

As for blade colour - I've got a 5W Prolight amber LED I want to try out, so (cardcollector

) it will be amber - for now, at least.

As for a name - that can happen when it's finished...

**cardcollector** · 05-29-2009, 05:27 PM

YAY, Amber!!

(its my favorite color if you didn't notice

)

**DJMoonbass** · 05-31-2009, 05:56 PM

those things would look so kick but with a white blade. Lets go crazy and imagine a 15 watt white for LEDengin. lol

**Sethski** · 06-06-2009, 09:36 AM

I've been working on this today, so wanted to share my progress...

BTW - Sithlordfaust - I like your saber, especially the finsh and details on the overlay - how did you get the white finish? And are the details hand painted or etched or what? Cool and unusual anyway - if you have a link to a thread on it, i'd love to see and read more.

DJ - I think white blade as well would be overkill for me, with the white body, but it might look cool - or did you mean with the trooper concept saber?

Anyway, since I posted before, I was thinking about doing some weathering and, on reflection, I thought it would also complement an amber blade, whereas I imagine the "clean" look would be better with blue or cyan or purple.

I haven't put together the electronics yet, it's still a static hilt at the mo. It was going to have a US 2.1, but I'm getting to like it more and I have a CF 2 point something in a Qui Gon hilt, so I might have to replaced that with the US 2.1 and treat this one to some CF goodness

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