Monday, September 22, 2008

Retro-future/Steampunk Lightsaber


















This is none other than a retro-future/electro-mechanical / steampunk / dieselpunk lightsaber (lightsabre for the Brits). I'm thinking about selling it on the bay of e's, just for the heck of it. Any offers?  I'm most happy with this, and I didn't even set out to make it during my weekend of ray-gunnery.  It definitely makes one feel either like a baddass or a pixelated, low-polygonic dark Jedi from Dark Forces II.

Ray Gun


Ready for hand-held battle!  This was mainly inspired by Captain Proton from Star Trek and Spacemean Spiff from Calvin & Hobbes.  It took forever to clean out the old electric drill, but I got some really cool parts that I used later (WD-40, how great thou are).

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