Foam Sword, Blizz style (Pic heavy!!)

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.


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.

Exacto'd it.

Hot glued the handle in place and covered it in 2 layers of expanding foam.


Started hacksawing the bejeezus out of it.


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.


More Bondo and some sanding of said Bondo.


My fanclub of feral chickens.


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.

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?

A artist at work! But I scream for mawr cowbell! I mean more foam!

That looks really good, I'm not a wow player but I tend to enjoy certain things from it.

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!

wow this looks VERY cool! Can't wait to see this finished, good luck on your progress!

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?

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.

HUZZAH! PAINT PHASE!



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.