Foam Sword, Blizz style (Pic heavy!!)

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LadyLoo

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Greetings!

I'm Lauren and my last attempt at prop making was some Ghost Armor from Starcraft 2. I made a bracer and stopped because I was in way over my head. This is something more manageable.

Namely, a giant World of Warcraft sword.
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I saw on the WoW website that they were having a Weaponsmithing Fan art contest, with about 22 days left in the contest. I work outside on my props, and weather has stalled me a bit, but in the 6 days I have left, I hope to make a decent replica. I've been updating my tumblr (ooohhh) with pictures, but thought I'd load them here to show off a bit.

Starting out I hand-drew the design on some big poster paper.
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Exacto'd it.
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Hot glued the handle in place and covered it in 2 layers of expanding foam.
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Started hacksawing the bejeezus out of it.
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Filled in the gaps with MOAR foam, cut it up some more... Also at this point I started testing out Bondo and Epoxy (not at the same time) on the opposite side. I'm only doing half of the sword, so I can hang it up on my wall as a big, nerdy tribute.
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More Bondo and some sanding of said Bondo.
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My fanclub of feral chickens.
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So that's the culmination of my work, a little over 2 weeks. Needs some more sanding and shaping of the hilt, so if the weather holds up I should be able to get this done in the next week.
 

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Way cool (and I'm not even a Wow player/fanboy)! My mates play WoW (or at least used too) and would probably flip to have this. Keep up the work, I want to see finished pics on this one, alright? :)
 
WoW!!!! I don't play WoW or have any interests in it at all but that is one descent prop chu' got there!!
 
Thanks guys, would've had s'more updates today but we had a ridiculous storm blow through. Lightning and all that good stuff, hopefully tomorrow'll be clear so I can get this finished up!
 
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Did more bondo/sanding today, tomorrow after class I'm going to do my last bit of sanding, then doing primer so I can start painting.

I'd love to fill in more gaps and get a really smooth finish, but I don't have the time! It's like... a rock-hewn blade anyway, so I can totally say it has battle damage, right?
 

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Never played WoW but a few friends of mine do and they would literally kill to have this. I may have to try using foam for some of my future sword projects. I usually use wood.
 
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HUZZAH! PAINT PHASE!

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Got some black primer slapped on thar, tomorrow I'm gonna paint the bejeezus out of it and ad some stuff to the hilt/crystals. Should be a fun bout with the good 'ol Exacto and some foam.
 

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