ChaosUT Bastard Sword cosplay prop
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 11:18 pm
Took a while for me to get back to it, but here finally is the ChaosUT Bastard Sword I mentioned in my cosplay thread a few months ago.
Construction:
-Framed it out with wooden dowels joined via a couple little brackets
-I used EVA foam floormats for most of the mass. I cut out the shapes for the blade and crossguard, then hollowed out a channel for the frame and sandwiched them together with contact cement. I added the bevels with a dremel.
-The skulls are just a couple dollar store Halloween decorations. I cut the faces off, then added some foam around the inside edges to give more of a surface for gluing. I stuck them to the crossguard with hot glue, then used Drydex to smooth out the gap between them.
-The handle was capped with a cabinet knob. The in-game one has a spike as the pommel, but I didn't do that so I could stand it up like in the pic.
-The handle was wrapped with about an inch-wide strip of floormat EVA foam, again using contact cement.
-I wrapped the crossguard with thin "craft foam" EVA foam. This was attached with super glue for convenience.
-To get the leather texture on the handle parts, I crumpled up some aluminum foil, heated it up, and squeezed it against the foam.
-Painting: 2 coats of plastidip to seal it, then a few rounds of spraypainting and masking for the blade, skull, and handle base coat. (2 coats per color)
-Weathering: Grimed it up with watered-down black and brown acrylic paint, then wiped it off so it only stays in the low spots and imperfections. Then I dry-brushed the edges with lighter colors to show wear.
EDIT: Gave a little more info on the construction of it.
Construction:
-Framed it out with wooden dowels joined via a couple little brackets
-I used EVA foam floormats for most of the mass. I cut out the shapes for the blade and crossguard, then hollowed out a channel for the frame and sandwiched them together with contact cement. I added the bevels with a dremel.
-The skulls are just a couple dollar store Halloween decorations. I cut the faces off, then added some foam around the inside edges to give more of a surface for gluing. I stuck them to the crossguard with hot glue, then used Drydex to smooth out the gap between them.
-The handle was capped with a cabinet knob. The in-game one has a spike as the pommel, but I didn't do that so I could stand it up like in the pic.
-The handle was wrapped with about an inch-wide strip of floormat EVA foam, again using contact cement.
-I wrapped the crossguard with thin "craft foam" EVA foam. This was attached with super glue for convenience.
-To get the leather texture on the handle parts, I crumpled up some aluminum foil, heated it up, and squeezed it against the foam.
-Painting: 2 coats of plastidip to seal it, then a few rounds of spraypainting and masking for the blade, skull, and handle base coat. (2 coats per color)
-Weathering: Grimed it up with watered-down black and brown acrylic paint, then wiped it off so it only stays in the low spots and imperfections. Then I dry-brushed the edges with lighter colors to show wear.
EDIT: Gave a little more info on the construction of it.