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I've finally finished Seele Schneider, the only bladed Quincy weapon.The hilt is made from a combination of pine wood, plywood and basswood. It's constructed like a box, with a removable lid held in place by two strong magnets. The end with the finger whole is made from one piece of pine wood.
The hilt contains 4 AA batteries and a switch which power an LED string to make the blade glow.
The blade itself is made from 4 layers of 4mm sheet acrylic. With the two centre pieces having a cutout for the LED string.
The LED string comes from a Master Replicas Lightsaber, which I bought seperately from JQLightsabers. co.uk [link] They do Lightsaber conversions which involve removing the LED string and replacing it with a Luxeon LED, so have stock of these LED strings which can be bought cheap.
I've tried a variety of methods to difuse the light from the blade, but haven't been able to get it perfect. It looks better in the pictures then it does in real life.
If people are interested on how any of it's made just post a request and I'll write up more detail.
I also made a few 3D models prior to starting to get an idea of how I can get it to all fit together. You will need the Viewpoint plugin to be able to view them www.viewpoint.com
Full model [link]
Part Exploded [link]
Fully exploded [link]
I've submitted a Deviation showing the electronic setup, which can be seen here [link]
Here are two additional images which might help fellow artists:
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Jonathan
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Comments: 171
Oh my gosh.... o__o
At first, I thought it was glow in the dark paint! xD
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I doubt you'd be able to get such a glow from glow in the dark paint
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Thanks so much for explaining the process and materials a bit. I think it looks wonderful! I'm really impressed on how it looks so much like the real thing and the details in the hilt really do look pretty well duplicated. Now you just need a Quincy to wield it! ^_^
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I'm sure there will be a few Uryus in London Expo in May. I'll see if any of em would like to pose with it.
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That would be really cool! I would love to see some pics please. ^_^
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i think it looks amazing, the fact you even got it to work is good enough for me
^^ looking forward to seeing it in may
i can't think of anything to diffuse the lighting though 
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The expo should be good
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That is indeed awesome. (And I would be interested in learning how you constructed it, especially the electrical parts, even if I can vaguely guess by the details you gave here.)
I would suggest frosting the acrylic to diffuse the light a bit, but since I don't know how those strings work I couldn't say for sure. My only real experience with LEDs is replacing one of those touch bubble bubles with a clusterbulb and the diffusion there was a sheet of tinfoil.
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I've tried frosting the blade using some glass frosting spray paint.
I actually bought two LED strings so I have a spare which I've already soldered etc, so I'll take some pictures and post em tonight.
So I can use this second set and some spare acrylic to try other paints. If I use a air spray and water down some paints it may be transulcent enough and give a better effect.
Oooo, I also forgot I made a few view point models prior to starting, check my revised details for links.
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I would try frosting the inside as well as the outside. It seems to affect light much better that way. (Kind of like how a stained glass lampshade won't throw off as much coloured light as a lightbulb painted with glass paint.)
The view point models look cool and while I figured out the pieces before I even looked at them, certainly helped in my understanding of how you put it together. (I'm in awe of the routering/grinding you did to make the acrylic pieces flush with the handle.)
I looked over at the electronics, and it's a shame the LED string is a parallel circuit rather than a series. Though a series basically means if one LED is blown, the rest don't work either, it would have given you more of a lighting from the top/bottom effect than parallel. (Not much, but a series circuit is slower than a parallel one.) It is a shame you couldn't fit a electronics board in there.
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Very well done, that looks amazing ^^
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wow... unbelievable... XD
nice work man..
its deserves to be used by a deserving uryuu ishida cosplayer.. XD
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Thanks 
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Dude, that's AWESOME... Well done!
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