Do it again until it works.

Those blades, in the back of the axe. The aluminiumwiretapethingamajigs didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped, so I ripped them out and made these.

These will work. I know it.

Trying to mend my lack of knowledge

No pain, no gain. The axe has these little blades on the back, but because of my lack of experience with expanding foam (or anything really, this is my first prop that has come this far) I did not make a proper template for the foam to stick on...or where I'm going to cut! These might be redone, but we'll see now that the foam is drying again.

Update

There's something weird going on in the last picture and it's not related to that axe there...

Slightly failing only means more work.

Aka if life gives you lemons you throw them back. Even though my application of the foam was slightly flawed the other side at least had enough to try my hand at sculpting this. Hopefully in two days I'll get the base properly foamed. I also realized that I need to mix some methods here, mostly because I did not make a core for every part of the axe so sculpting for instance the round parts where the blade attaches could result in a disaster.

Excited, that I am.

My own little box for my own little works

I said that a proper box for fiberglassing, foaming and all that nasty stuff was needed and here it is. 190cm x 70cm x 125cm with a heater, this box fills most of my balcony but I'm already quite happy that I made it.
I do need to paint it so that it won't suffer from the humidity and all that.

Almost taking shape.

There's some steel in there, for rigidity and to add some heft to the blade. Those screws are there for the foam to grab a hold of.

Truth be told, I already foamed the blade...but I failed miserably in paying attention to Kamui Cosplays tutorials and not understanding that the foam is actually quite heavy before it hardens, even though I've used it before...so it tore itself off because I foamed both sides (if I had watched the tutorial first that would not have happened). I learned my lesson though.

To progress! To a productive year!

Yes, I have actually made some progress. The axe is now sturdy, but I left the handle area free of fiber and because of that it bends a bit when swung...don't know if that's a good idea though, just a hunch.

Practical things: the weather in Finland is crap. Either it's freezing, raining, snowing or all those at the same time and resin doesn't cure very well in that kind of an environment. So I made a box for it, out of foam sheets and a small heater inside. While it works marvelously it's seriously not-too-optimal, so as a proper start for a more productive new year I'll built a proper, bigger, better box this week (if my budget holds) and it can then also be used to handle the foaming that'll come next.

Heyo, update.

So what's new? The bendy part down there and the top spike, both secured to the handle. I'll see what I can do about the fiberglassing...it's quite cold and snowy outside and that stuff can't really be used inside my apartment unless I want to faint or something.

Diablo III Bastion's Revered Axe

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/bastions-revered


Yeah, making two projects at the same time is always a good idea.