[5/14] Historical fantasy weapons: Kanabō

Really excellent craftsmenship! Great presentation and photography!

That’s some beautiful work, Ovy.

Beautifully done, as always, Ovy. Even your older "over the top" weapon looks excellent. A more civilized age, indeed! Also love the presentation, with the helmet and the pavement (is that another project you have going on?).

I like them. Very classy.

Seriously beautiful work on that shield, the axe is very good too.

Amazing and inspiring as always Ovy!

These new weapons are most awesome. The real wood combined with a perfect looking metal imitation are so cool

Never enough superlatives for Ovy's 1/6 weaponsmithing!

Today I made a Kanabō out of a dead paintbrush and nails.

Randam Hajile wrote:Really excellent craftsmenship! Great presentation and photography!

Thanks, I like to give the equipment a bit room as they kinda 'get lost' on figures sometimes.

Stryker2011 wrote:That’s some beautiful work, Ovy.

Belated thanks

GubernatorFan wrote:Beautifully done, as always, Ovy. Even your older "over the top" weapon looks excellent. A more civilized age, indeed! Also love the presentation, with the helmet and the pavement (is that another project you have going on?).

Thanks, and yeah that pavement is still from that first styrofoam diorama, old polymer clay leftovers. The sallet, now broken, ist for Jaroyesz of course, as is the pollaxe.

shazzdan wrote:I like them. Very classy.

Thanks sir

Theboo-bomb wrote:Seriously beautiful work on that shield, the axe is very good too.

Thanks boo

BAMComix wrote:Amazing and inspiring as always Ovy!

Happy to inspire, thanks!

Valiarde wrote:These new weapons are most awesome. The real wood combined with a perfect looking metal imitation are so cool

Thanks, yeah real wood helps sell the look, I think I used it in all the weapons shown here yet.

skywalkersaga wrote:Never enough superlatives for Ovy's 1/6 weaponsmithing!

Thanks!

What a neat idea! And it turned out beautifully!

And now I know what a kanabo is, or rather that this is a kanabo. The Aztecs did something similar, but with shards of obsidian as blades coming out of the pole. Thanks for the lesson. And for sharing this perfect little piece of weaponry.

Wow. That is so cool. Neat idea.

That looks amazing Ovy!

skywalkersaga wrote:What a neat idea! And it turned out beautifully!

Thanks!

GubernatorFan wrote:And now I know what a kanabo is, or rather that this is a kanabo. The Aztecs did something similar, but with shards of obsidian as blades coming out of the pole. Thanks for the lesson. And for sharing this perfect little piece of weaponry.

Yeah that Aztec thing was more of a sword/cutting weapon I think, they used those shards because they didn't forge blades.
The Kanabo wasn't only for crushing bone, armor and person, but destroying fancy Katanas. I think it might be an effective and low maintenance weapon against the Undead.

Stryker2011 wrote:Wow. That is so cool. Neat idea.

Thanks!

BAMComix wrote:That looks amazing Ovy!

Thanks!

The upper paintbrush was the base. I poked in holes and then drilled them. Eight studs in the upper rows, then alternating rows of four. The last half less dense. If I made a stencil it might have looked more even.


I made some pics with my Orange Warrior, here a glimpse.

Love it. Such a formidable weapon. I want a real one for the inevitable civil war.

I think it would be a pretty effective weapon against anything but missiles and tank armor. Looks great in the hands of your samurai-inspired warrior.

I see you grabbed the latest leaves from the North Korean Leaf artist again!



haha, nicely done, it looks amazing!

Stryker2011 wrote:Love it. Such a formidable weapon. I want a real one for the inevitable civil war.

Thanks a lot.
I think there is an American version even, the baseball-bat-with-nailsō. (And the derevation of it, the baseball-bat-covered-in-barbed-wireō) :p

GubernatorFan wrote:I think it would be a pretty effective weapon against anything but missiles and tank armor. Looks great in the hands of your samurai-inspired warrior.

Thanks, but who knows, maybe those studs are tiny target seeking missiles themselves?

csyeung wrote:I see you grabbed the latest leaves from the North Korean Leaf artist again!



haha, nicely done, it looks amazing!

Thanks, yeah cost me a fortune and I lost them directly after the shoot, but hey it was worth it

Anyway I put up some pictures in the other thread, didn't want to give the characters too much focus here.

further amazing ovyesque still lifes…

love catching a glimpse how you achieve your results (nice to know you used a drill)

loved the reference to the North Korean leaves