CynderBloc
Active Member
Some of you may remember my 10 hour dash to build one of these in time for the game release last year http://www.therpf.com/f9/tomb-raider-ice-axe-finished-177968/
It was hastily assembled. I changed certain aspects of it to cut a few corners time-wise, some of the layers between the MDF and styrene show through the paint and just in general it was kinda shoddy. I was happy with it at the time as I hadn't set myself any quality standards for it, just that I had to finish it before the midnight release.
Now however, it's been on my wall for almost a year. Every time I look at it I know I should have given myself more time. So I started again, with the same construction methods, but with a longer time frame and far better references. In fact, the in-game version is an amalgamation of the concept art version and how the DMM reference axe looks.
Let's see how it goes, if nothing else, there will be more photos which will show how I constructed the original for anyone who was interested.
It was hastily assembled. I changed certain aspects of it to cut a few corners time-wise, some of the layers between the MDF and styrene show through the paint and just in general it was kinda shoddy. I was happy with it at the time as I hadn't set myself any quality standards for it, just that I had to finish it before the midnight release.
Now however, it's been on my wall for almost a year. Every time I look at it I know I should have given myself more time. So I started again, with the same construction methods, but with a longer time frame and far better references. In fact, the in-game version is an amalgamation of the concept art version and how the DMM reference axe looks.
Let's see how it goes, if nothing else, there will be more photos which will show how I constructed the original for anyone who was interested.