Really don't mind if you sit this one out.

Wed, Apr. 22nd, 2009, 03:50 pm
Grand Marshal's Battle Smasher

So, I've tried a few ways of making my prop Battle Smasher and the best way seems to be corrugated cardboard cut or notched to shape for the hammer heads and headpiece. I'm only working with the head at the moment, working with a lathe to make a really ornate handle comes a lot later when I find someone with one. *laugh*

The dimensions of the thing will be -

Length will be 80 cm to 1m, haven't decided exactly...from this, the following ratios can be gleaned in any case.

The handle is 5/8ths of the length
The head, then, is 3/8ths the length.
The head's width is 7/16ths of the total length at the longer width and 3/16ths wide at the shorter width.

The heaxagonal hammer facets were a slight challenge, without a protractor to work out exact angles I'm going to use the old method of tracing a circle and going from there. Other challengs will include the lion emblems and the pommel. I'd better get back to drafting designs.