Dragon knight Sword

Here is one (of hopefully 3) swords I'm making for Dragon Knight.

Again, with all my weapons so far, a part of this was a materials test. And I think this time I finally found the material that I was looking for. A big problem I have with the foam that I use is that it is easily dented, so I've tried:

polyurethane- cant get a thick enough layer to actually protect the foam
fiberglass resin- eats the foam like a fat kid eats cake
latex layer then fiberglass resign- yeah... didn't help

Then I looked up how people make home made surf boards and found an epoxy resign call "Klear Kote". This stuff is AMAZING! Its hard, but flexible (super flexible) and doesn't eat at the foam. So now I can just make surfboards..... that look like swords.

3 of the swords I'm hoping to do. I'll do the middle one first

I skipped taking a picture of the PVC and wood skeleton on the inside. Here is the re-glueing stage.

More sanding

I casted the little gems with another kind of resin and mixed some gold/orange acrylic with it

all put together, pre-epoxy

close up on hand guards

And the final with paint! This paint job actually took a while because I wanted a warm tone to the metal.

Dragon Knight Helmet

Here is another part of my Dragon Knight "Father of Dragons" set. I'm thinking about doing a gender-bent version of this character because most of the cons are super hot, and this guys has a lot of armor. The biggest difference would only be in the torso armor (coming up next).

Anyway, the paint job for this piece kind of looks like a Pokemon... or Digimon or something. I might have to change that yellow after finishing the rest of the armor.

I'll wear this under my helmet to keep it in place.

This was the most embarrassing part: looking like a cone head.... or a pharaoh 

Adding that Gundam flare

I love putting damage on my armor... but the hardest part is that first scratch. after that, there no going back

the red

...the yellow

and the finale.... still looks like a pokemon