Ok, well here are some pics. As you can see, all the hammer head details are on there to include the blade. All free-standing, so no tape. Not glued either
Here is a close up of the backside of the hammer to show the amount of clearance between the blade and the pieces. I fear that the blade is slightly mis-aligned with the center of the hammer head, so I may have to do some tweaking with the blade mount.
And here is the lower shaft/main body. All grey, and dull coated. Nice and protected. Just need to get the leather on there before I can attach the hand guard, which I still need to paint. After the hammer is assembeled, painted, I'm going to do a black wash over the entire thing, but use brown on the black parts. I'm not gonna paint the blue on this. I'm going to be doing the white portions with white reflective tape though. You'll see when it's finished.
-TC
Here is a close up of the backside of the hammer to show the amount of clearance between the blade and the pieces. I fear that the blade is slightly mis-aligned with the center of the hammer head, so I may have to do some tweaking with the blade mount.
And here is the lower shaft/main body. All grey, and dull coated. Nice and protected. Just need to get the leather on there before I can attach the hand guard, which I still need to paint. After the hammer is assembeled, painted, I'm going to do a black wash over the entire thing, but use brown on the black parts. I'm not gonna paint the blue on this. I'm going to be doing the white portions with white reflective tape though. You'll see when it's finished.
-TC