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wildcard	Mar 3 2009, 11:09 AM
The one... the amazing... the powerful... ME! Posts: 374 Group: Members Member #20,437 Joined: January 17, 2009 Gender Female	I'm new to weapon-building, BUT this is how I'd do them: I know there are styrofoam in many sizes in some hobby-shops avaiable, so I'd buy two large and eight smaller ones for the rings. For the cross in the middle, I'd buy an iso tube as it is often used for cords (you should be able to find those in building centres and they are cheap). For the spikes around I'd use for example chopsticks as the core (which you insert in the rings) for stabilisation. Now here it depends on preference. You can either form the spikes with plaster over the wooden core and also cover everything in a layer of plaster before you paint it the correct color. Or (which I'd do, due to the weapon rules over here) I'd use foam plastic and duct tape to form the spikes and also put a thin layer of foam plastic all over the weapon, before covering it in duct tape. Then I'd be putting a few layers of white latex over the whole thing and finally, when all is done and dried, I'd color the red parts Do not forget to spread tallow over the latex parts when you are done or it will be rather sticky. Baby powder is cheap and effective If in the end you find the weapon not "shiny" enough there is some sort of special liquid which you can put on top of your weapon, that will give it a certain shine. I haven't worked with that one yet, but I plan on doing so in the future. I hope I expressed this in a clear way. An alternative material for the cross-section I can think of is the carton of a kitchen roll. It's cheaper, but also less stabile ^^° If you have any further question, shot right away Note: I just thought of something else. If you can not get the rings I talked about earlier, maybe you can get your hands on 2 discus of plastic and cut the unnecessary parts out? You could also get the base for the x-shape in the middle Problem would now lay with the outer rings, but maybe there are some sort of mini-discs out there? Or a broken cd that you can cut with special scissors in the right shape?
	*HanbeiCute?Or evil?* I'm a proud fan of BOTH, Samurai Warriors AND Sengoku Basara. Bashing either at own risk.

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