Costume Weapons

Here's a pair of radically altered knives based off of a hooked skinning knife. I used the pair as props for Halloween a few years back and were my first foray into "large scale" prop building.

The handle is cloth wrapped electrical conduit. The blades were cut from insulating foam to make the blank, then cast into a latex encapsulation mold, de-molded, and then poured using the Smooth-On tm liquid plastic. After they cured I drilled into the end of the blade and set a bolt into each one with epoxy then epoxied two nuts into the end of the handle and screwed the blade in until tight.

Yes, I meant to put my air Miles card in there, it's for a scale reference. I'll post more photos of other projects soon. And please feel free to offer any helpful advice you may have.

Thanks

P.S. Posted this in General Modeling originally, but some troll said it belonged here, so here it starts even though it's not a replica of anything...

what costume are you doing for those weapons to go with?

I went as pestilence. Mainly the weapons were made as a test of materials and processes.