GubernatorFan wrote:Why do you insult your pieces? They look quite good to me. Either I have low standards or you're fishing for compliments.
Anyway, great to see serious-looking utilitarian weapons/tools. And nice humor with the title.
Haha, thanks a lot. That Warhammer figure announcement actually reminded me to take some photos and get this thread up.
Well the photos are good, but the handle is not straight but somehow too curved and the small rectangular metal plates are not parallel to the handle. Also the beak was too high, so I cut it out and placed it lower. I know it's a bit picky but I also know I could have made it better with more preparation.
On the smasha, well maybe it's not that badly made, although I really stopped liking these oversized weapons some day, in general. But yeah maybe for some monster can use it or it will be allowed to lie around as battlefield prop. These weapons are supposed to be the same iconic main weapon for the same character, see that new war hammer as the more serious reboot version of it, haha.
Lynkhart wrote:^ this! I think it looks fantastic! The rivets(?) holding it to the wood look really accurate too.
Thanks! Yeah they are brass nails. While it might be accurate, it's just not accurate enough to please the eye in hand. Well maybe I am OCDing after all. You know what that perfection thing is doing to us sometimes.
For me it's like it was for you with Baxter's head.
Theboo-bomb wrote:Man, if that's sloppy I don't want to see great, it might blind us all with it's quality. Seriously though it's not bad at all, and it doesn't matter if it's "sloppy" I don't think a warhammer would look great after bashing a few skulls around.
The smasha is also pretty cool, looks like something an orc or ogre would wield.
Haha, thanks. Yeah I like the head now, but these rail frame things still bother me. It was worse after I finished, had to take a break, now I don't see the tiny accidents that much anymore. At least the beak has 'happy' accidents. And yes it smashed a lot of heads in the past, this simple tool. Now that it has a story I like it much more.
Valiarde wrote:I like the floor/wall thingy, looks good! Did you make that one, too?
And the weapons are wonderfully crafted, already got a sneak peek on them. Nothing beats real wood for the handle.
Thanks! I made this floor thingy some years ago with colorful polymer clay rests, I flattened and rolled them on a big plate and sculpted the gaps in with ball sculpting tools. I think your styrodur brick method is faster and looks better.
The smasha handle is actually real wood but covered in modeling paste to be big enough to fit some big glove hands. I had no idea what I did back then. The new hammer is a much more civilized and graceful weapon of head smashing.
shazzdan wrote:Looks pretty good to me. What materials did you use?
Trivia: At the time the word "hammer" referred to the spike, not the flat bludgeoning part. The flat, bludgeoning part was called the "poll".
Thanks shazz, also for that trivia!
Here is what I used:
Handle was carved/sanded out of a basket willow stick. The head and spike were roughly made from polymer clay with the intention to carve and sand them later. I made multiple and finally chose the one on the lower right.
Test fit
The frame (correct me shazzam) was made from plastic card/polystyrene sheet. The nails/rivets are tiny brass nails I cut to length.
I painted it before assembling to spare the wood.
Here assembled, I welded and sanded the upper square to the other two with super glue later.