Welcome to master and apprentice today, we're gonna be making custom lightsabers for Star Wars.
This is Marcus report for the last 17 years Marcus has been working in the film industry as a production designer art director and prop
Fabricator and this is Adam Ellis a novice cosplayer and a systems administrator for Risha beef production company we work for it
We're gonna show you what it takes to make?
Professional level props from your favorite movies and video games and teach you the tricks the pros you that you can do at home this
Is master an apprentice I?
Think every one of us is fantasized about having their own lightsaber
And and maybe even a custom lightsaber at that sure my dad made one of these out of a broom handle and some PVC parts
When I was a little kid, so this one's kind of near and dear to my heart basically we're gonna take an off-the-shelf lightsaber
We're gonna sort of go into the Star Wars universe
We're gonna borrow some aesthetics that we know that we can apply here
And we're gonna start to kick bash our own pieces that we've found
This is what's fun about doing you know cosplay?
And prop work is you get to kind of pick and choose the pieces that you want right so this is about personalization
We've got about half a day to do this. Yeah, this is something at home
Hopefully people can can take care of in a similar amount of time
Yes, I believe so so when I scale to 1 to 10 this build is about a three
This is a really great starting project for anyone who's never done anything like this. We should be making our own custom lightsaber
I'll be going for a Jedi look and Marcus is gonna be going for like a Knights of Ren sort of look so the first
step is gonna be in sketch this thing up obviously we're gonna need some pins and pencils and a pad of paper for that the
Next step is lightsaber prep you're gonna need a screwdriver to remove the blade and an off-the-shelf lightsaber to work with the next step is
gonna be kid bashing you're gonna need some plastic model kit parts and some super glue or epoxy to attach all these pieces so the
Last step here is gonna be painting and weathering you're gonna need some small paintbrushes for this as well as an airbrush
We're also gonna need some spray paints and some acrylic paints for all the aging
Okay, Adam, so let's figure out what this thing looks like
So do you want to start with your design? This is one taken from the force awakens?
Art book it looks like a concept design for a night of Rin
I don't know if it's gonna be in the new movie or not, but I really liked the drawing when I saw it yeah
That's cool. I really like that. It's black. You don't see that very often. I'm a little nervous
I'm afraid that I don't have the right creative brain yet. I think you do we can reference this
This photograph you know you like the ribbing you. You know you like this
this gives us
something to go off of
Maybe this maybe this is all all the divots in their copper. Okay, you sound like you just went a place in your head
That says this is what we're trying to do trying to get you excited about what we're making
Now that we have a good idea of what we're both building we can start on kid matching
We're starting with an off-the-shelf a lightsaber, but it doesn't really look very fancy
so instead we're gonna take a bunch of kit bashed parts and stuff that we have around the house and
Start gluing these up, then making these look really cool
Whenever you do kit bashing everything needs to kind of have
Somewhat of a purpose you don't want it to be haphazard as you build and put new pieces on it'll start to develop
So I'm going to take this PVC pipe and cut it on the table saw while it's at a 45 degree angle and cut off
the excess and
Then all I have to do is fit it on the lightsaber the easiest way to get tubes to fit on a bigger tube
Is to do like a split so we can take this to the bandsaw we can make a cut right here
You can probably sleeve this around will stretch enough then wherever there's a gap we're gonna use another
Piece of model parts to kind of hide the fact that there's a seam
So we'll just stretch it girl we might need to
Give up a little bit, yeah, let's give it some heat with the heat gun
Then you should be able to fit that on there pretty good, okay
We resume cylindrical details
And now I have little bits to clean up so I'm using an exacto to cut away the excess
What are we really careful when you're working the exacto blade?
This is probably one of the most dangerous tools in the entire shop it looks super innocent
It's just a wee little knife
Anytime you work with this you always want to be pushing this away from your body
So if you miss or you break, or you lose your grip then it's going somewhere, that's not important
So keep bashing is the fun part all you have to do is glue the pieces on wherever you like them
This is from a toy gun
We cut the nozzle off. You can kind of see where it was this portion. Here is a from a satellite model
This is from a y-wing
Frustrated man, it's trying to use these fluted bits
I know that you don't think it looks that great, but it this is really good. Thank you
Yeah, just think I'm going to take your lesson from the last time. We kick bashed and
Just be okay with changing the design a little bit
So marques you're looking pretty far along here
We're getting close someone you're probably gonna get rid of be in a way sooner than I am you're just looking really good actually
It doesn't seem like it right now cuz it's a bunch of different colors
If I think this tip on to make sure no one thinks it's a real lightsabers
That's so you can take it to comic-con right I think I'm gonna do what we talked about and do some of this in black
Leather they gonna keep most of it chrome, and then I'll have a couple strips of copper. You're in though
You're in the right neighborhood cool
All right, so the big pieces around and we're ready to paint
He's masking off
the parts that I'm going to not want to paint black so let me paint my black first I
messed up already I
just don't like the comparisons of like who's the bigger star wars fan because
Everyone has their own sentimental connection to a movie like Star Wars Marcus. That's his dad built him a lightsaber growing up
You know me that was also my bonding experience that my dad's watching Star Wars over time
I'm gonna paint these little bands copper and mask the rest of the thing off I
Think there's copper accents make me real happy. Oh, yeah, all we got left is weather
So if you've seen this show before you know anytime we're trying to make an object look like metal when it's plastic I usually fall
Back on this metallic wax paint and right now
We're just gently guiding the side of a brush over all the high spots
Where this detail exists and this kind of gives us some almost like a faux airbrush really that is?
Awesome in like four or five hours. You have a Knights of Ren awesome custom lightsaber. Yeah, it's pretty good
I've got an old wiring harness from some miscellaneous tech. We've had laying around
I'm gonna cut something off and we're gonna glue it on okay. I'm gonna a little dirty mine up
If you don't have an airbrush you could easily use the front of a small paintbrush
Paint some on wipe it off and leave all the paint in the recesses
I just have to do some dry brushing and get this parts over and get some dirt in it get in there
Well this turned into a really awesome afternoon project there's a lot of fun I
Was really scared dude like I know you really sweating it
I've made stuff before but like I haven't created my own design and like work from that
It's the fact that it shows the light through there is awesome
You've got copper here in the middle which is really nice detail
And you didn't use it too much all these PVC fluted parts that you got that didn't fit at first
You just kind of cut them split them at the back, and then you hide the seams looks great yours is amazing
It's like it's just like what you were going for it's so cool. I think it kinda looks like a jet engine
Yeah, it does. Well. You see we got yeah, let's let's go battle alright. It's time
time to wield these
Are you are you okay, okay? Okay, okay fine? You're still wanna do this so this we still this masher yes
I'm grateful instead of waiting hole levels. Thanks for watching master apprentice
We hope you guys decide to make your own lightsabers at home, and if you do please show us
And if there's anything else you want us to make also let us know in the comments. We will see you next time
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