"Lightsabers and laserswords in 28mm - scratch built Jedi" Topic

Got a couple of 28mm plastics (Stargrave scavengers) I fancy converting into Jedi/Sith proxies with lightsabres. So I slam some obvious key words into Google expecting to get a whole heap of blogs posts and forum threads on converting jedi. Only to get surprising few results – though I did get hits for people actually putting LEDs into miniatures with lightsabers… Anyway, can anyone offer up any experience of that kind of conversion either using aftermarket parts or scratch built with acrylic rods?

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There are some good builds in that thread.

Acrylic rods at that scale may not have the effect you are imagining. It would be easier to do plastic or metal rods and just paint them white and add the flourescent desired blade color.

Back in the early 2000s, before the WotC Star Wars miniatures were available, I made several Jedi and Sith from a handful of metal Reaper fantasy miniatures. Mostly magic-user types with an outstretched arm (casting spells or using The Force?)

I used some 0.020" (?) stainless steel wire that we had at my workplace. I would snip off their swords or staves, and drill a tiny hole through the closed hand.

Then I used a dremel and cut tiny lengths of brass tubing to place on either side of the hand for the saber hilt (with the steel wire holding evereything together in-line). Definitely more durable than most minis with plastic sabers.

I later did a Wookie Jedi using the a WotC mini, but I just used a piece of model sprue for that saber blade. But basically the same process.

@Greylegion, thanks looks real interesting but will take sometime to browse!

@Aestivalis, thanks for the thoughts, I'm a bit ambivalent acrylic rod myself. I used it in some old school plastic necrons but there I could just about manage to paint the mini and put the rod in at the end of the process – I think even after I'd sealed them. The effect wasn't that good. The brass tubing bits for hilt sounds a neat touch. Will probably go with plastic rod though – so far my experience with steel rod/wire in modelling projects is rod 1 – me 0!

I've used brass jewelry pins for lightsaber conversions a bunch. Here are a few:

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