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Samhain138
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« on: January 16, 2017, 11:37:09 PM »

I'm pretty thrilled with how my unstable blades turned out for my Kylo costume.  I used some icicle Christmas lights.  I sanded the edges, lined them with some liner from a broken blade and painted them with a red translucent paint.

The main blade I used a blade I covered in hot glue and painted with the same paint.












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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2017, 11:38:21 PM »

It looks good. Point.
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2017, 11:40:50 PM »

This was incredibly easy to do.  If I can whip these up anyone can!
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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2017, 11:42:00 PM »

wow you turned the main blade into a day blade
nice work using icicle lights on the sides.
i saw another person do that on youtube
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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2017, 11:55:37 PM »

Nice! -1
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2017, 12:20:18 AM »

Well I'm impressed! Nice work on that. It looks fantastic, and then you post the pic of yourself in the Kylo Ren costume with that saber, and it looks ridiculously authentic and real, not to mention the weathering you did adds a layer of rustic to it. I've seen the glue technique before, but I really think yours has turned out even better than I remember, probably because you painted the blade with that translucent red paint. It all works really well. Thanks for sharing - good stuff!  Have a point!
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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2017, 12:43:55 AM »

Spectacular Sam!

I really like it when someone re-purposes something broken, instead of just throwing it away. Smiley

That looks really good, and pretty accurate. 

Very inventive and creative.

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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2017, 12:51:47 AM »

That looks awesome Sam, nice work!
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2017, 01:08:34 AM »

Hands down that is the best and most realistic one I've seen, especially in the pics where it's lit.

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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2017, 03:27:48 AM »

Hey Samhain - about how thick did you lay the hot glue on the blade / roughly how many sticks of the stuff did you go through?
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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2017, 03:41:46 AM »

Niiiice!!! Would love to see this with the saber pulsing.
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2017, 04:01:34 AM »

Awesome job. +1 on the pulsing.
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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2017, 04:18:24 AM »

Hey Samhain - about how thick did you lay the hot glue on the blade / roughly how many sticks of the stuff did you go through?


It's like two layers.  I basically put enough down to cover the whole thing and then l did a second layer to look how I wanted.

My Kylo hilt doesn't pulse, but I might can put them in my pulsing cross guard hilt later. Idk how the socket depth will work for it though since I made them for this particular hilt.

Here's some video of it though.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUJ0LZ88AIQ" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUJ0LZ88AIQ</a>
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2017, 04:23:23 AM »

That's pretty sweet. The red translucent makes it look really nice over just the standard clear.
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« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2017, 04:55:28 AM »

with all the excitement i almost forgot its not an ultrasaber
still very nice
and you did a great job
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