Before anything i would like to tell everyone that this is NOT the correct way for making a scythe and i DO NOT recommend you to do it this way! I made this in a rush so i skipped a lot of things and ghetto-ed it a lot so the end result is not nice. Also i did not refer to any references! i just 'hentam sajalah' all the way. But hey we all learn from mistakes, right?! =P Also sorry for the not-so-clear photos. My digicam is not gar enough for indoor night shots.
PROJECT: Scythe for Oz Bezarius (Pandora Hearts)
DURATION: 1 night (about 6pm - 7am with lil naps here n there)
TOOLS: paper, boxboard, knife, polystyrene, pva-glue, papertape, masking tape, toilet paper, pvc-pipes, wiring tape, spray
#1 I started out by drafting out the pattern on a big piece of paper.
#2 Then i traced and cut out the shapes on boxboard. Made 2 pieces of the whole thing. Pay attention i draw a smaller scythe design inside a bigger design.
#3 Traced, cut, and pasted the smaller syth design made out of polystyrene onto the boxboard. Each polystyrene i pasted on the different side of each boxboard (remember there were 2 pieces?). Then i masking tape from the polystrene edge to the boxboard edge, creating an angled 3d blade-edge. Afterward i paper tape the whole thing.
#4 all done paper-taping! letting it dry while i zzz~*
#5 Now each piece of boxboard i cut into 2 at an angle... both at different angles... so that later when we combine...
#6 ... it sticks together like jigsaw puzzle, get it?!
#7 see??? 8D
#8 Then i cut a 'drain' into the inner side of each boxboard and bury the upper part of pvc pipe in it.
#9 the outside part i use toilet-paper and masking tape and then paper tape it so it has some texture+dimension.
#10 don't forget the handle! must add texture! i use pvc pipe covered with rope covered with masking tape covered with box tape.
#11 i glued together the opposite piece of the boxboard-blade... so now the 4 pieces became 2 pieces! And the handle is another piece... so we have a 3-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-scythe!
#12 see the 3 pieces? Then me and deidara spray-painted it with brown and gold colour (thank u deidei~). i put metal pipe inside the pvc pipe for additional support.
#13 Gattai!! <3
#14 final finished product... posed by our lovely Alice@NKDF. Very big, yes?! Wen helped in carrying it to the event (thank u!). Unfortunately some 'mishaps' happened after AFA so i had to leave it at Singapore. Hope it will be a good recycled product to the environment.
By right (according to my props-mahaguru) i should have add layers of resin or plaster and sandpaper it b4 spray painting to make it smooth... but i didn't. And i'm suppose to carve the blade properly and also let the glue dry out longer... which i didn't. Hence why the scythe blade is a bit distorted and crumpled. So next time it's best to make a prop way waaaaay earlier instead of the night b4 flying off to Singapore, ok?! ok??! =P
I'm cosplaying as Alice in the spring, and I'm currently trying to figure out how to make her scythe, as you have here. I was simply wondering if you could explain the whole "cutting into pieces" part, as I'm not entirely clear on how that works.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much ! Beautiful job!
I'll be cosplaying as Alice in July. Found this really helpful! I hadn't even thought about the connector thing that you put on top of your PVC pipe. Really good idea! That's one massive, beautiful scythe XD How heavy was it? I want mine to be fairly light weigh so I wont be inserting the metal pole inside the PVC one but the blade itself also looks quite heavy.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant job! Natsuki-chan XX