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I kept telling myself, all day Friday, that I was going to build some scratchbuilt Lightsabers (the hilts).  The recipe is simple enough, a Lightsaber hilt is basically just a tube, two hands tall, with an emitter array at one end and handle at the other.  What goes inbetween is pretty much a free-for-all.  Well, it was a long day Friday so I got home, got out of my work clothes, got my jammies on and basically told myself that I was going to take a nap for an hour then get up and build a Lightsaber.  Sometime in the next three hours I snoozed, I can't remember if I got anything to eat or not, and I basically said "screw it" and went to sleep for the night.  Saturday morning I was going to wake up early and get things done.  I slept late.  It felt great.  I woke up, threw on my jeans and a T-shirt and, determined, built a Lightsaber in about 20 minutes.  Later that afternoon I was going to build another Lightsaber but I couldn't decide on the design ... I basically had two emitter arrays built and two end caps so I just said why build two in one day when I can build three?

And that's what I did.

The Lightsabers are built out of wood dowels, off the rack wood parts and some metal ring hooks.  Each saber is about 85% complete as I need to prime them, paint them and detail them but the core of the project is there.

Pictures soon, the unfinished sabers will be posted tomorrow.  I'll work on finishing them up as I can but it was a fun Saturday project.
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Pegasus Hobbies has been teasing us with their Terminator license ... a long time ago, there were very few Terminator kits.  Horizon produced a few Arnies, a bare Endo and a flying HK all in vinyl which isn't the most forgiving material to work with.  Tskuda (sp) produced an Endo with plasma rifle that was very nice and another company, I can't remember who, produced an Arnie with the long slide .45 from the first movie ... that figure is ancient and very, very rare.  Pegasus Hobbies has acquired the license to produce Terminator models ... their first is the Aerial HK which looks a little stunted but beggars can't be choosers.  I plan on getting a few and kitbashing them ... the first will probably be bone box stock.  The second will be the "Buster" I drew out and included on my website and the fourth will be a kitbash of a four turbine heavy armed transport.  Pegasus says that this model is in 1/35th scale which puts it in scale with most modern military miniatures which is a good thing  since you can pretty much kitbash the Resistance out of 1/35th off the shelf offerings.  Pegasus says they'll also produce a 1/35th HK tank with support Endos ... that's going to be the real prize since the only time that any company has produced a 1/35 HK tank and Endos was Argonauts back in the 1990's and those kits were Japan only and super expensive at well over $150 when they were new.

I look forward to these new kits not just for the subject but because they will be mass produced injection molded and that will make them very affordable.  CultTVMan's website has some box art and preliminary pictures of the aerial HK which means it is almost as good as here.  Hopefully the HK tank won't be too far behind that.
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I was in Books A Million the other day and noticed a much more accurate phaser II replica in the size that I want, produced by Running Press, it's a much more faithful reproduction at this scale than the keychain variant though it only lights up ... strange.  You would think that it would make a phaser sound as well, sound chips  are so cheap these days that having just a light up phaser is kind of a rip for $10 but the detail is there and hopefully in the next week or two there will be the mockup of the Phaser rifle (TOS) and I'm really leaning on doing another Matchbox Raygun.  The itch is there so ...
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Just purchased a good size Star Trek TOS Phaser II keychain on Ebay.  It lights up and makes classic Phaser noise and will be easier to use to create a scaled physical version of the Type II+R Phaser rifle design than one of my 1:1 scale Phasers.  Work at multiple jobs has kept me from having much time for my art and projects other than day dreaming and sketching what I'm going to build if I get the chance but I've got 6 nights free coming my way soon and that should be enough to squeeze out a few more quick projects.
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I'd rate it about a B- ... with a little bit more work I might upgrade it to B+ but then I'm hard on myself.  Just  when I think that I've reached some type of epoch I climb even higher, look back and ask myself "what was I thinking to consider that good?"  I guess the more time passes between a project, the harsher I grade it in retrospect.

Anyway, here's the matchbox raygun as promised.  I actually did get it finished by my personal deadline but my laptop was packed up and I was just too lazy / tired to fool with getting it out, firing it up and doing any kind of photo uploading.

More designs to come ... soon.
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Scratchbuilt Lightsabers by TiredJadedSoul, journal

Pegasus Hobbies - Terminator models by TiredJadedSoul, journal

Better Phaser II for the Phaser Rifle mockup by TiredJadedSoul, journal

Type II+R Phaser rifle scale model is go! by TiredJadedSoul, journal

Matchbox Raygun posted by TiredJadedSoul, journal