AlexGordon
Active Member
well, obviously since I'm posting in the off topic, non SW section, it means I've got yet another prop that I want to build that is from another movie franchise. I'm still waiting for a nice day outside to re-pour my LOZ Master Sword pedestal, and in the meantime, I took my sister to see Catching Fire. Seeing that movie reminded me of how much I liked the first Hunger Games bow (even more than the recycled avengers bow in the second one) so I set out searching for the right replica. It became clear within 5 minutes that I was gonna have to tackle this one myself. There is a company that claims to sell replicas of this bow, but really they aren't even close.
My Hunger Games - View topic - Katniss' Arena Bow and Arrows TUTORIAL
I stumbled upon this, and it was a pretty good tutorial, but I don't really feel like doing all of the woodwork and the bow used is totally inaccurate (I don't need a super expensive custom bow, but the bow in the movie is a recurve bow and the tutorial used a longbow), so I started hunting for a base bow and meanwhile, whipped this model up in autodesk inventor software. Took me all of 2 hours while watching the movie in the background. Since I didn't mention it earlier, this model would be the custom handle of the bow. If you watch closely in the movie, you can see the filled and sanded screw holes on the front of the bow where they attached the custom handle. You really have to be paying attention, but if you see it, it's dead obvious.
Then I found it. The closest bow I'm gonna get within the ~$100 total budget that I was allowing for this prop. It is curved much closer to the way the movie prop is and seemed like 50" was the perfect length for such a bow.
Well, only one way to find out if the length is good or not. I got extremely lucky and found this picture of Jennifer Lawrence holding the bow parallel to the camera lens, standing up straight, and a head to toe shot.
A quick lookup of her height (and factoring for the boots) was all I needed to have a good estimation of the length of the bow, and it came out to 52.6" Not bad. My bow could wind up within 2% of the movie prop, especially when you factor in the bow being in front of her in the shot.
So, with that shot, how does my 3d modeled grip compare? The measurements from the picture come out to about 12.78" and my 3d model is 13.026" long. For a prop like this, that's just about perfect once again.
I'll be tweaking my model to bring it closer to the accurate length (and double checking my measurements to be sure it needs tweaking) and I'll either be ordering the handle from shapeways or having it 3d printed in a less expensive way somewhere else. with .1" walls, it's $65 on shapeways. I also need to wait for the bow to arrive to take final measurements so I can be sure that the custom handle will actually fit the bow, where I assumed I would be using the dimensions of the bow in the tutorial I posted above when I first made the model.
Anyway, thanks for looking guys!
My Hunger Games - View topic - Katniss' Arena Bow and Arrows TUTORIAL
I stumbled upon this, and it was a pretty good tutorial, but I don't really feel like doing all of the woodwork and the bow used is totally inaccurate (I don't need a super expensive custom bow, but the bow in the movie is a recurve bow and the tutorial used a longbow), so I started hunting for a base bow and meanwhile, whipped this model up in autodesk inventor software. Took me all of 2 hours while watching the movie in the background. Since I didn't mention it earlier, this model would be the custom handle of the bow. If you watch closely in the movie, you can see the filled and sanded screw holes on the front of the bow where they attached the custom handle. You really have to be paying attention, but if you see it, it's dead obvious.
Then I found it. The closest bow I'm gonna get within the ~$100 total budget that I was allowing for this prop. It is curved much closer to the way the movie prop is and seemed like 50" was the perfect length for such a bow.
Well, only one way to find out if the length is good or not. I got extremely lucky and found this picture of Jennifer Lawrence holding the bow parallel to the camera lens, standing up straight, and a head to toe shot.
A quick lookup of her height (and factoring for the boots) was all I needed to have a good estimation of the length of the bow, and it came out to 52.6" Not bad. My bow could wind up within 2% of the movie prop, especially when you factor in the bow being in front of her in the shot.
So, with that shot, how does my 3d modeled grip compare? The measurements from the picture come out to about 12.78" and my 3d model is 13.026" long. For a prop like this, that's just about perfect once again.
I'll be tweaking my model to bring it closer to the accurate length (and double checking my measurements to be sure it needs tweaking) and I'll either be ordering the handle from shapeways or having it 3d printed in a less expensive way somewhere else. with .1" walls, it's $65 on shapeways. I also need to wait for the bow to arrive to take final measurements so I can be sure that the custom handle will actually fit the bow, where I assumed I would be using the dimensions of the bow in the tutorial I posted above when I first made the model.
Anyway, thanks for looking guys!