I got Jays palantir and installed it along with making a light up staff for gandalf the white on shadow fax. What a couple of great things to really make the game look great. The gandalf mod is a fellow pinsiders idea, I just recreated it. I am very happy with the new additions.

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Couldn't have done it without your help. Thanks

I just added a brass wire to eliminate the ugly plastic to keep the ball on the left wire form. I saw a fellow pinsiders do something similar and figured I'd give it a try. Even though it was clear plastic that area feels much clearer.

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It might have been your post somewhere that gave me the idea. If so thanks

Check eBay, I got mine there for $20

Thanks for showing this, this is where I saw it originally and may make another to protect the plastic as well.

No I was not trying to sell these, I would have bought one but couldn't find the thread. It was actually real easy to make it and a friend want me to make him one now.

There's one on eBay for $29 but last week there were two for under $20

Here is a link to the led I used
http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/smd-chip-leds.html
This was the link that fellow pinsider deathhimself gave me and it worked great. This was actually his idea that I made on my own.

Thanks for the idea. I think people sharing designs and ideas and tips is great. I would never have thought of any of this stuff on my own.

Here are some close ups of the staff for those who asked

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Just added a balrog votive and lit it with red LEDs. I might get some orange and try those.

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I settled on a red and orange combo.
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And not too bad on height I'd say
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I have since the photo
Looks much claener

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I just added a shade to keep the light off the ceiling and focused more on the topper

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I like the back glass mod, was it difficult?

On a side note I am in the process of making a second gandalf on shadowfax with the light up staff if anybody is interested. I bought an extra led and gandalf and figured I'd make one for someone else. Not really sure how to price it though. I'll try and come up with a price and post a pic when it's done and ready to go.

I suppose one Gould be made out of a small dowel( toothpick maybe) It probably would look fine. I'll check it out.

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I want to add the back box flasher behind the eye. Where did you hook to the spinner flasher?

Well I made up another gandalf on shadowfax with the lit up staff that I am going to sell. Looking to get $110 shipped in the US. If someone wants it pm me and it's yours.
I may be getting in another gandalf soon and if so will make up another one also.

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Still available

Gandalf is gone

It's a nano warm white from a model train store

There's a link earlier in the post

I am going to have one or two more of these Gandalf's done pretty soon I'll post pictures when done.

I may be able to get a couple more staffs, I'll post here when I know for sure.

He is right, these are not that hard to make, actually he is the one who I got all the info from to make them. I just had access to multiple figures and staffs and figured I'd make them for people who didn't want to try. If anybody wants pointers on how to make them on their own, I linked the led info earlier and have pm'd several people with basic instructions on how to do it. I will hopefully be able to make up a few more full figures and also a few more staffs only.
It is definitely a great mod for the game.

I'm working on coming up with a good alternative to the real staff as they are hard to come by.

I just finished making my own potd mod. It doesn't flash, I wanted it to always be on. It was a pain in the ass , at least for me, but I love the look.

I will be making up one or two more gandalfs, I'll post when finished. Also I may have a decent fake staff that I'm working on. I'll post pics when done

Looks good now light up the staff

It's linked earlier in the thread, 6-12v nano warm white

image-20.jpgSo this is the prototype gandalf staff mod, the proto is on the right.
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It actually looks better in person, the whole staff head lights up a little

Not sure how to price yet, I only made one. I'm going to try a batch and see how it goes. I probably won't have them done for a few weeks as I leave next week on vaca for two weeks. Well see how much time I have before I go. I'll post progress here.

I haven't thought about a saruman one I'm focused on these first, but maybe in the future. I suppose this could be used for either though. I might try on my game first to see how it looks.

I haven't thought about a saruman one I'm focused on these first, but maybe in the future. I suppose this could be used for either though. I might try on my game first to see how it looks.

Casting would definitely be a process. I used small wood dowels I had that are a little over a 1/16" and put the led on them then built up the tip with glue to look like the original. Then painted white. It's a process but looks pretty good when it's done. I hope to put some more time on them tonight. I'm trying to do a batch of five at once to see if it speeds up the process.

Well I just finished gluing up three more, I broke one led. They will be painted tomorrow and ready to ship by the weekend. I was thinking $50 shipped in the us. Pm me if interested, if I have more interest I'll make more. Just to be clear these are not the original gandalf staffs, I made these with small wooden dowels and glue, and tried to replicate the shape as best I could. You can just superglue them into gandalfs hand and run the wire down through the playfield behind him. These do look great lit up In my opinion. I will post more pics when they are done. They should be ready to ship by Saturday or Monday. If I can't ship out by Monday, I'm away on vacation for two weeks and will resume making more and ship out when I get back.
I also should have three more complete gandalfs with lit staff as well. These are $115 shipped in the us.pm me if interested in these as well. I should also be getting a few more in later. I'll let everybody know.

Also to let everybody know these come with alligator clips soldered on so they can be hooked under the playfield to a GI bulb. If you want no clips I'll take $5 off. They will all come with 4' of wire which is enough to get up into the back box or pretty much anywhere under the playfield.

That looks great!

There's always time for mods

Just painted the staffs so they will be tested and pics should be up tomorrow.
I finished two full gandalfs , one is spoken for, so one is still available. I will have two more in a few weeks.

Here are the pics of a few more staffs. These are actually working out very cool. They are lit up all around. The first pic is actually from the back.image-317.jpgimage-377.jpgimage-660.jpg
Pm me If anyone is interested

I still have two staffs left and got one more gandalf in so I can do another full gandalf on shadowfax if anybody wants one.

There is a resistor built in to the nano led

Gandalf set is spoken for, but I'm working on getting more. I have one more staff available also.

As of now all the staffs are spoken for. I will be making another batch soon. I believe all Pm's have been answered

I have at least three more full gandalf with staff sets that will be available if anyone is interested. Pm me if you want one.

I have two full gandalfs made up and available. Also working on another batch of aftermarket staffs.

I have a couple full gandalfs left and a few stock staffs as well.

Bump still available