Chainsword Part 5

Made and added some of the teeth. If I could damn wake up on time I would be getting more done in the mornings before work. I think it's because I have started drinking soda again. Today, nothing but water to get rid of the caffeine in my system, see how that goes.

Chainsword Part 4

Just a couple of pictures. Nothing too special yet, but have the bulk of it together except for the top. Next I will be adding the spikes which I think will allow for a better idea of the end product.

Right now it is just a prototype, end product is going to be made out of wood. This is just to make sure scale is good and get a template made for cutting the wood.

Chainsword Part 3

Going with an overall length of 48", the blade being 30" long.

Right now have some of the pieces glued, have to wait for the glue to dry before I can do anything else at this point. Missed something before I went to glue, just need to cut something out. Waiting for the glue to dry to cut it as not to gunk up my blade.

Now to figure out what the hell to do while the glue dries hah. Hrmm.. I know! A book of some sort. Reading? No... creating a book of EEVILL!!!

Chainsword Part 2

Think I am going to make a base out of foamcore just to get the sides down right. I was thinking wood for my final product, we will see though how bulky it ends up being. For transport, might have to mike it break down into multiple pieces.

Just going to go all out with the 5 ft for the foamcore just to see how intimidating it is hah. I have seen a tutorial to making latex weapons for boffer larps. That might be something to look into more as it would be lighter, and could actually whack people with the thing without having to worry about giving them a concussion.

We will see though, I will probably have another update later on in the day.

Chainsword part 1

So, trying to get a group together some Warhammer 40k costumes. One of the most recognizable things from 40k are the chainswords. Big bulky things of rending destruction that even in a universe of lasers and stupidly high caliber firepower, the soldiers still get into the nitty gritty and lob a few limbs off.

First off just looking at some of the models for reference. I took a look at an Imperial Commissar and a Necromunda Ganger.



As you can see (the light blue lines in the pics are markers). They are almost the size of the person wielding them. I have read that the larger inquisitor models are better for scaling weapons to the user, but I haven't found any photos of one with a chainsword yet.

Right now if I do it to scale as on the models with myself, the total length will be 5ft long. I might scale it down to 4ft just to kill some of the weight and awkwardness since the sword will be carried around in the middle of the huge crowds at Dragon*Con.

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Just setting up something to help me keep on track with my work, and let other people who are interested take a peek at my work in progress.