DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build *FINISHED W/ PICS*

tubachris85x

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Figured I'd post this up since I'm getting closer to finishing it. This is a combined post of my progress up to now:

Here's my formal thread for this build. Shouldn't be too much longer till completion.

Got the kit not too long ago

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It's just a shy smaller then 1:1 scale, but I still am going to love it when it's done.

So far, as of now, I have the main body pretty much ready for paint!

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Will be starting on the hammer head today, wish me luck lol

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Here we go! Got alot farther with just this! Was freaking out that I wouldn't get this right, but it came out well. I kept remembering what Ithica was saying about getting the angle right or the little resin piece wouldn't fit properly and affect everything else. It's all holding up on it's own at the moment. The next step is to epoxy the stubb piece in correctly and get some resin poured in there.



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On top of that, got the top details placed (the top one I had to hold, the hole was a little too big lol



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Ok, well here are some pics. As you can see, all the hammer head details are on there to include the blade. All free-standing, so no tape. Not glued either



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Here is a close up of the backside of the hammer to show the amount of clearance between the blade and the pieces. I fear that the blade is slightly mis-aligned with the center of the hammer head, so I may have to do some tweaking with the blade mount.



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And here is the lower shaft/main body. All grey, and dull coated. Nice and protected. Just need to get the leather on there before I can attach the hand guard, which I still need to paint. After the hammer is assembeled, painted, I'm going to do a black wash over the entire thing, but use brown on the black parts. I'm not gonna paint the blue on this. I'm going to be doing the white portions with white reflective tape though. You'll see when it's finished.



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Alright, well after a series of cursing and pulling, I finally got this to a decent level. The end's aren't perfect, but I dont care at this point considering how much of a pain it was. The ends are currently being epoxied down, hence the blue tape



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Just gotta do the upper portion later on...

Last one for the night. Although it's all assembled, I'm probably not going to permanently attach the hand guard until the upper shaft's grip is wrapped. The maker also used pinstripping to add details which I may do so myself. I spent time today further cleaning up the hammer head. As I was removing a glob of excess resin, it turned out to be hollow, and opened up a hole in the hammer head (interior is hollow). So I had to fill that sucker up. and clean it up tomorrow. Hoping to be able to get those pieces assembled and painted shortly...

Anyways, here's a pic of the lower shaft, hand guard painted and dull coated. Leather on the bottom is finished.

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Might leave the red on the leather instead of covering it up...adds some style..


Ok, last hurdle accomplished. Both grips have leather attached and are good to go. Now I can focus on detailing the main body with the pin-stripes and attach the hand guard for good.

Here's sort of the starting process, figuring the correct angle to cut the leather at the begining..


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Finished grip

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Time to move forward!

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More to come!

-TC
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build

When you say it's just shy of 1:1 scale do you mean that it seems small in your hands or that it's smaller than the one master chief would be running around with, because don't forget you're probably just shy of 1:1 scale with that guy so it should be perfect. ;)
cheerio

p.s. that really does look excellent.
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build

the scale is said to be just shy of 1:1 by the maker. Now, I dont know what the true to life measurements would be either, but its really not that far off.

One thing I do for comparing in game hand held weapons is to compare the scale of the hands holding the item and compare that to how your hand looks holding it real life. I am 6'7" tall, master cheif is supposed to be somewhere between 6'6" and 6'10" out of armor (bungie can't decide) but he is 7' in armor.

I guess a good point of reference is the halo 3 mcfarlane toy line, since the figures were all in scale of one another, and I do recall the grav hammer being taller than the spartan figures. The interesting thing is that in ODST, you were aable to weild a hammer, and odsts averaged at 6' tall
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build

Painted the blade yesterday. Gonna weather it up after I'm done assembling it.



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That hole I've had in the hammer head is getting frustrating, cause none of my fillers are holding up. IDK why. I may just say screw it and leave it be. It's really the only thing holding me from painting and assembling the hammer head



-TC
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build

Painted most of the pieces black today. Still got a few more to do, but it's getting dark and stormy outside!

Ran out of paint on the hammer head though :'(

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-TC
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build *6/16 new pics*

OK, well I can pretty much say that I can get the entire thing assembled today!

Here's how it's looking now. All the greeblies are attached to the hammer head, painted as well. The clear coat I used gave it an interesting appearence. I think some local dust picked up while spraying and adheared to the surface, which gave it a cool weathered look (accidentally!)

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Just finishing up the upper shaft and then I can continue assembling everything!

-TC
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build *6/16 new pics*

Not getting too many responses, but I wanted to ask for an opinion. I didnt' paint the blue highliights on the hammer head as seen exactly like in the game because I am going for a WETA studios hammer look, but I was thinking about adding this detail using reflective white tape. I see this detail as very bright (like a light) whenever I see it in the game, so I figured that it'd work as a decent alternative to adding lights. LMK what you think, it's not adheared yet, just placed there.

Normal light

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with flash

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Thanks

-TC
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build *6/16 new pics*

hammer head is assembled...about to add those 4 support pieces here shortly, but my biggest concern being the blade attaching to the main body, but hey, it's holding!

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Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build *Its assembled*

Good to hear. I say go for the Weta look... Do something different. :D Hammer looks nice btw... I hope it isn't the almighty Ban-Hammer.
 
Re: DogWizard Halo 3 Gravity Hammer Build *Its assembled*

I'll try to get those pics up later. I literally finished it, sat it down as you see it and had to run off to see the GF. I'm gonna do the weathering on it tomorrow. I'm debating if I want to take some rubb and buff silver leaf to parts of the main body. I notice now on the WETA hammer that these sections are black with metal/silver showing through.

As an FYI, the hammer stands just around 6'4"-6'5" I am 6'7" so it may look different lol

So far it's just very top heavy, obviously. I'm kinda hesitant to do alot of handling cause I fear that the upper shaft/head portion will slip right off! IDK, maybe I just need to trust in the support shaft and epoxy...
 
Well I can safely say that I finished this prop. Weathering is completed! Tried a new technique utilizing baby powder to weather the black parts as well. I think it came out decent. Don't really have anyone home here to take a pic of me holding it or vice versa :'(

Here are some detail pics

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LMK what you all think!

-TC
 
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