Lifesize Toy/Comic Style Power Sword

[Maul]

Thanks hadley! I always look forward to updating it. I'm just sorry that it's maddeningly infrequent.

[Psychodad]

Great work

[mikieson]

neat but really surprised its taken this long to finish..Im the kind of guy that when I start something I lose sleep until its done..

[Maul]

Yeah, I know, it's been VERY slow going. I used to be more like that, lol. It really comes down to work and family coming first. I could honestly carve out more time, but mainly at the expense of family. My kids are 1 and 4 and I'm still soaking in every second that I can while they're at this golden age. After they go down, I spend time with my wife and then it's time to go to bed and do it all again. When I do get to work on it, it always seems like I've been re-doing the same parts over and over to get them the way I want them. I'm going to just have to forego some sleep though, because I really want to get done!

Thanks for the comments guys!

[Maul]

An update, finally! It was finally time to join the two halves and finish the cutting edge. The edges weren't exactly even any longer just due to all the shaping. I had a couple more blanks already cut from when I originally planned on making all four "quadrants", for lack of a better word, rather than just make two and mold them. I clamped the pieces to one of the blanks so I'd have a template to build up both sides to. Some refinement would still be needed, but it would get me pretty close.



Some parts were closer than others:





I used Apoxie Sculpt to build up to the edge:







Again, there was some refinement afterwards, but not much. The halves are now joined, cleaned up the lines and it's FINALLY time to move on to hilt. I wasn't happy with the space between the wide part of the blade and the closest part of the cross guard, so I added in a couple of strips of masonite to space them out more.



Roughly trimmed:



I'm working on building the cross guard thickness with Apoxie Sculpt, blending etc., now. I hope to have some more updates soon. I don't expect this part to take as long, but we'll see. I've actually gotten a little further than these pics, but they're all I have for the moment.

Thanks again for the kind words everyone!