Yes yes, I know this is.....

Dan_BL · Post by **Dan_BL** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:22 pm

....Star Wars. But I just got an e-mail notification from BL stating that someone had snowstroopes for sale @$4. So I check out his shop and there is a link to his BS gallery where he sais he has custom lightsabers where they're lighted up....Could someone please clarify for me what on earth did he do to those bars? They're so COOOOLLLL!!!!!!!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=51908

Post by **Bruce N H** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:56 pm

I can't find it on Lugnet, but a year or so ago someone posted how they ran a tiny fiber optic cable through the minifig arm and into the light saber. It's not the pictures you're showing, but maybe that's what they did as well.

Bruce

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:53 pm

Hmm,

There are aftermarket sights for guns that use a certian material that is lighted, yet doesn't require any sort of power source, wires, that sort of things. Perhaps this is what this guy did?

Such as here:
http://www.glockfaq.com/images/pics/glo ... sights.jpg

The sights "Glow" and I think they are good for some years, there not like a one hour glow stick or anything.

Other than fiber optics like Bruce mentioned I would think this is the best/fastest/easiest way to do it. I would think getting a really tiny LED and putting a very very small battery in the fig would take tons of time and effort, and I would think being so small those parts would be spendy.

Dan_BL · Post by **Dan_BL** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:26 am

What you show there is a kind of plasic that is used on archery equipment as well as other hunting weapons. Their glowly as shown only when seen from a certain angle. Which, in the picture that is shown gives you only one angle thus making one think that the whole piece of plasic glows.

What I didn't check in this same guys folder when I posted this is this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/b999/ ... ber/03.jpg

Like you said-a battery.

This:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/b999/ ... ber/02.jpg
Which proves the wire.

This must be a switch:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/b999/ ... ber/05.jpg

Man! Makes me almost want to switch to Star Wars.