Opened Up Shop on Etsy!

Hello Folks! I am now taking orders for the Orcish Dagger on Etsy!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRustedScabbard

Here is the link...head on over and grab you one!

Orcish Dagger - DONE!!

So I have finally finished the Orcish Dagger from Skyrim. Here are some final shots of the painting and a decent final shot.

Started some layers of painting and trying different brands. Ended up using Krylon paints for the color layers and Rustoleum Auto Primer.

MOAR PAINTS...You can see my colors in the back ground that im working with.

Started some polishing now....

And boom final piece...

FYI I am taking orders for this bad boy if anyone is interested...

On to the next project!

Orcish Dagger - Crap...the ravens eye on the hilt...

Started work on the "Ravens Eye" or whatever its suppose to be. But the ingame model has this beak and eye on it. I didn't really want to make up a whole batch of bondo just to make this, so I managed to get some air dry clay from the local hobby store. It by the way is a pain, it cracks and just not how I was hoping.

So I used some nail filler and that helped a bit on the cracks. I need to get some apoxie scuplt for future projects...will work a hundred times better. 

Orcish Dagger - Bondosaurus rex!

Finally finished up the bondo part of this project and tried to take some decent photos of it on a black back ground.

Side A

I still need to use some bondo and some other filling products to fill in holes and gaps but other wise pretty much done with the bondo.

Side B

Cool sideways look? 

Orcish Dagger - Bondolicious?

More bondo to both daggers...filling in gaps and leveling stuff out. I am pretty sure after some time I will get better at using this stuff. Hence the two daggers and creating a learning experience for all of these.

Added some small slops of bondo here and there to fill in some air bubble holes created from the last pass.

Started work on the end which has the most detail...

Some more final sanding to smooth out the blade and the edges.

More shots coming!

Orcish Dagger - Second Dagger and more Bondo

Started on my second and more accurate dagger while adding more bondo to the first dagger. I will say this, bondo is a B$*%& to work with on any surface that's not smooth or flat. Trying to get it to make a smooth finish on a curve is almost impossible. I have added a couple layers of bondo so far each one...trying to fill in bubble gaps from the previous layer.

here is the curve i was talking about PRE sanding of course.

Second dagger I decided to go with 3 layers of resin since on the first one I was making holes in some of the construction from just sanding the bondo off.

Orcish Dagger - Moar Bondo...

Sanded down the first part of the bondo I added to the test dagger. It came out better then I had expected with a few bumps in the road. For one go very slow since this stuff can sand away very quickly. Second, if using anything electric with sanding be careful as well, it will take away the resin very quickly and leave you with holes in your model. Which is what happened to me a couple of times.

Also after the first night of coughing up a lung from inhaling all the dust from sanding. I purchased a respirator from my local home improvement store. Best purchase ever! Plus I look like I just fell out of Fallout or something.