/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

posting here so as not to derail progress thread
>>8294294
>what did you use to seal it?
I did about 10 coats of wood glue, sanded, then another ~2 coats (more in some places where I really sanded down) and another go at light sanding before getting it painted.
>>8294265
>can you link to some of your progress?
>I'd love to know how you made it.
I unfortunately lost the majority of my progress pictures when my phone died, and had only posted a few of those here - pic is one such picture I shared, and there are a couple more on my tumblr (lishujie). The material is insulation foam; below url is a good guide on how to work with this material.
>http://www.cosplay.com/showthread.php?t=95725

I did a ton of research before I started to see how other props in this material looked, what methods they used to achieve that result, and had to decide what I could and couldn't do - for example, I opted not to resin/bondo because I do not have the tools or space to handle these materials (to give you an idea, the stuff you see in pic and a boxcutter are the only tools I used to shape the sword). Using some kind of resin may have prevented the prop from cracking when it got stepped on.

An anon in the progress thread suggested using sintra instead of insulation foam, since it is more durable and also easy to work with. If you're also making a flat-ish prop (like a sword) this sounds like a good material to look into. On another note, I am actually planning on remaking falchion because I want a more accurate version, although it will be made with insulation foam because I still have about 6ft of the stuff. I'll be sure to take more pictures and share in the progress thread.

I should probably mention that while this wasn't necessarily difficult to make, it was extremely time consuming (~100 hours for me). It may be more worthwhile to just buy the prop, unless you are an idiot like me and absolutely must have it 100% accurate.