Dale was asking about the vibro-axes and he is right, I haven't done them before so I thought I would do a more detailed breakdown of their construction.
They are quite easy, but they do highlight something that has been an important lesson for me to learn about making figures in this style. The value of the tile spacers, not just because of their shape but also because of the flexibility and easy of cutting of the material they are made out of, cannot be overstated. I just want to give a shout out to a guy named Neil who used to post way back a decade ago in the yahoo group who was actually the first to my knowledge to use tile spacers for arms. I totally copied his idea with literally ALL of my figures since then, and have run with using them for as much as I possibly can. Thank you Neil!
The vibro-axe is made from a toothpick, a tile spacer, and a bead. The vibro-spear (the TMNT look-alike figure is carrying one of these) is the same material, just turned around (the handle is the tile spacer, whereas for the vibro-axe the blade is the tile spacer). Princess Leia is going to be wielding a vibro-axe in my figures so I have it done but not yet painted. So I took a picture of it so you can see it clearly.
That is a small oval bead glued to the left end of the toothpick, the sharp point of the other end of the toothpick was removed, and a tile spacer is cut to match the shape of the "business end" of the vibro-axe. It's sort of hard to see but the tile spacer as you all know starts as a + shape, I just cut away material I didn't need to produce this shape. Also, the bladed part is cut at a 45 degree angle to make it thinner. That's hard to see in the picture. The tile spacer is then just glued onto the toothpick and that's it, good to go!
Back to painting the sarlacc pit!
Very creative! Thanks for that. I thought the toothpick and bead interesting enough for other (African) weapons I have seen.
ReplyDeleteYes, it would be perfect for that.
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