Making plans

A friend of mine asked me if I could help him with an axe he wanted to build.

Dimensions: 110 cm (3 feet 7 inch) and double bladed.

The Inspiration

Construction

A rough design:

In the drawing you can see that the internals are drawn as well. It is better to plan ahead!

Making the parts. Knowing what goes on beforehand is a tricky part and varied from weapon to weapon, but pretend it’s real and imagine yourself a blacksmith.

The frame is made-up clued together kite spare covered in cloth.

The cloth is glued and stitched. Glued together and cut to size. Note the barbs where left out because it was felt that it would weaken the weapon. The handle is made from wood and crafted so it will take two AAA batteries. The switch is placed at the backend of the weapon and foam protected.

After some more gluing and latex-ing:

Note: 6 layers of clear latex 3 colored (black)

Than the red, and metallic are directly airbrushed on to the latex.

Covered with a coat of plastidip clear and finished with a light coat of clear varnish.

And here it is with the lights on: