[3 months after the 1st post]I decided to try to PC the parts, that's only my second job on it and it went great. I used the flat black and super copper from PBTP. Hot coating made it GAME. As expected the aluminium epoxy slightly shrinked so the grooves of the main tube are still there just a bit like a ghost line, but that's ok, the saber isn't supposed to be "clean"
PC was not just for experimenting. I wanted to have some "age resistant weathering" (tm ? ;D). PC is really hard, and the great thing, it's solvent resistant. Makes weathering harder but when it's done, it's done, no chiping paint.
WIP pictures. I appologize, I don't have access to my SLR right now, creepy cellphone pics.
Still working on the outside, I need to make the control box and the rabbit ears. Then I'll finally move to the chassis to hold the MR616 board and speaker.
I was thinking about PC in copper the central rod that fakes holding the crystal. Thoughts ? Too much brass kills the brass, I thought a little copper reminder in the crystal chamber could be nice (?).