1/6 Led lightsaber

[hurricane]

Looks more or less like this in low light -- nightime but house lights on --

I might have spoke too soon before... the 3 batteries work great... WHEN the saber decides to light up. Seems maybe my leads aren't connected perfectly. Takes some jiggling and finessing to get the light to come on full strength. The "on-off" works by twisting the handle of the hilt to tighten the batteries against the leads... but this doesn't always work on mine.

Anyway, when it is working correctly, the above pics show what I got.

I'll try to post daylight shots tomorrow to show what to expect during the day.

But for a self-contained light-up saber -- without having to hide cathode wires and power adaptors and all -- it pretty nice.

I think these things are quite cool, i did the l.e.d lit ones along time ago, not as refined as these tho, but, gotta go cathode....no trailing leads, no wires from hand to saber, just some wee contacts, AND when i do a tutorial for these cordless ones, they cost to make LESS than these, BUT you have to hollow the donor body out to take the batt and invertor,

here under bright lighting

 

[CyberVillain]

I took some better pictures with the light tent and flash

 

[katkuru]

Wow great pics! Wish i could take pics like that. Great job on the saber!

 

[CyberVillain]

Thanks mate! My SLR is doing most of the job though

 

[katkuru]

Noticed you used an Anakin saber hilt, why not the Vader one?

 

[CyberVillain]

Noticed you used an Anakin saber hilt, why not the Vader one?

Because I didnt find one :/ And i didn want to use the ones with the figure.