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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Scratchbuilt Lightsabers
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 sl...
Pegasus Hobbies - Terminator models
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 ...
Better Phaser II for the Phaser Rifle mockup
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 ...
Matchbox Raygun posted
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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