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    pepakura Lord Of The Rings files

    Hey this is really great! Unfortunately it looks like the link to the Witch King helm is broken? Any chance we could get that fixed?
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    Witch King of Angmar

    Hey there! I'm curious about what you used for reference for creating this awesome armor? I'm looking to build the Witch king myself but am having a hard time tracking down good sources for reference materials.
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    Mysteries of Udolpho - Period book prop

    Hey everyone! I have an upcoming commission for a period accurate replica of Ann Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" for a Catherine Morland cosplay. I'm reaching out here to see if anyone has any useful reference, or, magically, some high res scans of one of the original copies that I might be...
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    Fili's Swords from The Hobbit

    Thank you so much!
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    Recommended casting material?

    [UPDATE] I finished these swords! Thank you so much for all of your suggestions - I will definitely keep them in mind for future projects! You can check out my whole build process here: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=247989
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    Fili's Swords from The Hobbit

    Fili's Swords from the Hobbit Part 3: Painting Once the blades and handles were primed, it was time for paint! All the reference photos that I was looking at to date showed the blades in this sort of warm brown color with some black undertones. Especially the resin casts that I looked at had...
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    Fili's Swords from The Hobbit

    Fili's Swords from the Hobbit Part 2 After working on the blades for a while I switched back to the handles and cranked them out. I used a WONDERFUL product called DryDex, which, if you've never used it, is AWESOME for filling in gaps and flattening planes in 3D printed pieces. I used this and...
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    Fili's Swords from The Hobbit

    Thank you so much!
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    Fili's Swords from The Hobbit

    I just finished this commission by a very good friend of mine, and I decided I should outline the build here for anyone who would like to follow the process and see how I did it. This was one of my first big replica prop builds, and I learned a ton. Here are a few pics of the final piece, and...
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    Recommended casting material?

    Hello, I'm an amateur prop builder just starting out my (hopefully) long career with some replica commissions. I'd like to make a mold and cast the replica I'm currently working on (Fili's twin swords) so that I only have to fabricate one of them and can also offer other people casts to help...
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    THE HOBBIT swords

    Anyone know a good place to look for some high quality/res reference photos of Fili's swords? I need to make them for a commission but I'm having a hell of a time hunting down quality images that don't pixelate when I zoom in to trace and make blueprints.
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    Sword of Fili build, the Hobbit.

    How did you go about putting your blueprints together? I'm trying to do it digitally and I'm having a hell of a time finding reference images that are at a high enough resolution for what I'm trying to accomplish.
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    The PEPAKURA question thread - PLEASE READ RULES IN FIRST POST!

    Hello all! I'm having an issue with my unfolding process, and I can't quite pin down what is causing it, so I figured I'd ask here. This is what my 3D Blender model (3ds file) looks like in Pepakura Designer 3. I can select ALL the edges EXCEPT for those around that white area. I have NO...
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    Material Help

    No problem! I've just thought of another potential solution: you could also carve the Montrals out of foam and cover them with fabric or Worbla. That would make them even more sturdy, and you could follow them out to stuff your hair in.
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    ClawShot Replica Build

    Potentially off topic, but your Pepakura patterns turned out REALLY REALLY nice, and I was wondering if you have any tips. I just recently did a build in Blender of Fili's sword grip, and I don't have any floating vertices (that I know of), and yet I have a couple odd places were the patterns...
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