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Limited Run “Mine! Or I will help you not!” YODA LAMP BLOWOUT. Last in stock SALE
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Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
wicked! :thumbsup
wicked! :thumbsup
Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
Update: Aaron from Solo's Hold has suffered a shop injury. So in light of that and the holidays we may have more time to get this going. Keep spreading the word, we only need a about 15 more people to make it happen. Remember deposits only.
I have the prototype in hand. We'll make a few minor unseen changes, and I will be installing the electronics this week for a proof of concept to show you guys. ^_^
Update: Aaron from Solo's Hold has suffered a shop injury. So in light of that and the holidays we may have more time to get this going. Keep spreading the word, we only need a about 15 more people to make it happen. Remember deposits only.
I have the prototype in hand. We'll make a few minor unseen changes, and I will be installing the electronics this week for a proof of concept to show you guys. ^_^
Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
With Aaron's injury, we're gonna push it back until at least new years but will know more based on his healing. I just sent revisions to him from the prototype yesterday as there are 3-4 very small tweaks I wanted to make that no one will see but will make it better. Otherwise we're good to go.
I'll install the prototype today or tomorrow and get photos and videos up for everyone.
Either way I'm pretty sure this will happen.
Just in case though get more people off the fence!
With Aaron's injury, we're gonna push it back until at least new years but will know more based on his healing. I just sent revisions to him from the prototype yesterday as there are 3-4 very small tweaks I wanted to make that no one will see but will make it better. Otherwise we're good to go.
I'll install the prototype today or tomorrow and get photos and videos up for everyone.
Either way I'm pretty sure this will happen.
Just in case though get more people off the fence!
russellsch
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Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
I'm on the way! Tomorrow is payday
I'm on the way! Tomorrow is payday
Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
Yeeeeeeaaah buddy!!
I'm on the way! Tomorrow is payday
Yeeeeeeaaah buddy!!
Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
Boom... prototype in hand and installed.
So there are going to be some very minor changes, that are all internal to this prototype. Outwardly it should look identical, aside from the led being a little shorter inside the dome/top. So you won't see the heatshrink.
Also, here is the original part. I was pointed to this by thd9791, as he spotted this on eBay and alerted me. It's a vintage Ever Ready pen torch (or flash light in the USA). I saw it and right away thought he was right. The timeline works, the place those were most common, so I bought it. When it came I saw immediately on getting it to work, that the light plays, reflects, and looks EXACTLY like the original prop's top. It also made perfect sense form the standpoint of being a form factor that's nearly identical to what the original prop was, as a pen flashlight. I started scaling the image based on known R2D2 claw scales, and it all matched up. Based on that I started measuring my hand made guess work scratch built one, and found that my dimensions were super close. So I did some adjustments and it brought us to where this run and prototype are in scale.
Finally, to compared the scale to the RPF run from a few years ago, you can see ours is much smaller based on the found pen light part.
Interestingly the proportions are very similar, except my reference doesn't show the tapers in the sections like the previous run interpretations. From what I can see in the images I have access to, the sections are just straight cuts. So we went that direction.
So there's the part/story and the prototype. Hope you guys like it!
Oh... production LEDs will be warm white to match the screen used reference.
Boom... prototype in hand and installed.
So there are going to be some very minor changes, that are all internal to this prototype. Outwardly it should look identical, aside from the led being a little shorter inside the dome/top. So you won't see the heatshrink.
Also, here is the original part. I was pointed to this by thd9791, as he spotted this on eBay and alerted me. It's a vintage Ever Ready pen torch (or flash light in the USA). I saw it and right away thought he was right. The timeline works, the place those were most common, so I bought it. When it came I saw immediately on getting it to work, that the light plays, reflects, and looks EXACTLY like the original prop's top. It also made perfect sense form the standpoint of being a form factor that's nearly identical to what the original prop was, as a pen flashlight. I started scaling the image based on known R2D2 claw scales, and it all matched up. Based on that I started measuring my hand made guess work scratch built one, and found that my dimensions were super close. So I did some adjustments and it brought us to where this run and prototype are in scale.
Finally, to compared the scale to the RPF run from a few years ago, you can see ours is much smaller based on the found pen light part.
Interestingly the proportions are very similar, except my reference doesn't show the tapers in the sections like the previous run interpretations. From what I can see in the images I have access to, the sections are just straight cuts. So we went that direction.
So there's the part/story and the prototype. Hope you guys like it!
Oh... production LEDs will be warm white to match the screen used reference.
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Re: “Mine! Or I will help you not!” Luke’s… no wait… Yoda’s Dagobah Lamp run.
So much to like here. Thanks!!
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So much to like here. Thanks!!
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