Rook's Mid- Month MOC (February 2010)

Man on fire wrote:I love it. Can I get instructions?

fithboy wrote:I thought your sig-fig had a green lightsaber! Anyway nice MOC.

Colors
Lightsabers depicted the first two released films, A New Hope and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back had blades that were colored either blue (for the Jedi) or red (for the Sith). In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker's newly-constructed lightsaber was colored blue during the initial editing of the film, and appears so in both an early movie trailer and the official theatrical posters, but it was ultimately colored green in order to better stand out against the blue sky of Tatooine in outdoor scenes. Green would later become another standard blade color for Jedi lightsabers in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Mace Windu's purple-bladed lightsaber, as first seen in Attack of the Clones, was a personal request from actor Samuel L. Jackson as a way to make his character stand out among other Jedi.[10]

A multitude of blade colors appear in the Expanded Universe and in other Star Wars products. The original Kenner figure of Luke Skywalker in his Tatooine costume from Star Wars was released with a yellow-bladed lightsaber. While no yellow-bladed lightsabers appear in the films, they have appeared in several computer games, such as Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, and Jedi Academy. The Knights of the Old Republic video games further expand the number of colors, adding cyan, viridian, violet, silver, and orange,[7] and The Force Unleashed video game adds black, gold, and pink in the Nintendo DS version. With the release of The Clone Wars film and series, a build-your-own lightsaber kit was released in toy stores, and included red, blue and green shards that when put into a lightsaber you built, can light up. More than one shard can be inserted, resulting in mixed colors.

Multiple sources refer to a focusing crystal in the hilt as the source of the blade's color, mainly from the video game Star Wars Galaxies.[7] In the Star Wars universe, the color of a lightsaber's blade is determined by a crystal that is built in the center of the lightsaber and is reflected out as a light beam by the lightsaber's emitting energy core.

eclipsegrafx wrote:HEY! That sounds familiar....

Awesome job! I see you weren't so bored after all.

Nice details. Can I get that drawing table . Is that how you build? Drawing it first?

Rook wrote:Yeah I usually pencil out the basic shape if I'm building from my own imagination.

Ruitath wrote:Awesome moc! The writing is great! My favorite part is the gold kama on the shelf...awesome...

Sergeant Macaroni wrote:

Rook wrote:Yeah I usually pencil out the basic shape if I'm building from my own imagination.

I swear, I've never heard someone besides a kid say 'imagination'.