Kili's sword from The Hobbit

[ronime]

As a weight goal for myself, my wife wants me to make a Kili costume for the showing of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. For this thread I'm going to focus on my sword build for it, as no accurate replicas yet exist for this.

So far I have the blade cut up, glued together, and the rough 'sharpening' done to it. I will smooth some things out a bit, and then do my blade weathering.

Kili's sword has many nicks and cuts throughout the blade from years of combat. I thought a while on how I would do it, and I see a lot of prop makers use a dremel to make those, and I admit they look really good. Then I thought to myself... what if I used several types of sward to make nicks in it, so it WOULD be used in 'combat'? It should give it a much more authentic look. So with this my wife and I will duel with my various swords, gently of course being the MDF soft and all, and for safety. We will duel as if we were fighting, and will swap between about a dozen different swords I have to give various sized nicks.



Diagram of the sword drawn and scaled to my height of 5'5".


Blade pattern paid on the MDF.


Blade pattern paid on the MDF.


First side of the blade cut.


Both sides of the blade cut out.


Measurements sketched out for the blade edges and blood groove.


Edges - I made it a fair bit rough to emulate being forged with a hammer. Clean up will be later.


Edges - I made it a fair bit rough to emulate being forged with a hammer. Clean up will be later.


Blood groove - I made it a fair bit rough to emulate being forged with a hammer. Clean up will be later.


Blood groove - I made it a fair bit rough to emulate being forged with a hammer. Clean up will be later.


Holding the blade out for scale.


Holding the blade out for scale.

 

[N2darkness]

It's coming from UC and more than likely before the next movie.

 

[Sporkey]

This was one my favorite weapons in the movie, and it looks like you have a great start on it! Can't wait to see it all finished!

 

[ronime]

@Stivie Still nice to be able to make my own and for anyone who needs/wants one

@Sporkey Thanks! Same here, I've been pouring over every shot I can get to be sure I get it as movie accurate as possible!

 

[jedimarkj]

You might already have this as one of your reference shots: http://static.wix.com/media/54d37a_9167924760b9a258ba67c0489de5812b.jpg

But here it is again just in case. It's the latex larping replica by wickedreplicas ( Wicked Replicas | strange unique and unusual stuff )

Best of luck with your build! Great progress so far :thumbsup

 

[ronime]

I've seen those rubber ones, but they have some slight proportions off. I've been combing over the blu ray and grabbing every single shot I can to get all of my measurements and details from. It's a pain in the ass, but helps make sure I make it as accurate as possible


And now for more progress!

I sanded the edges and the blood groove to make it a little more smooth, and then painted with black primer to help me see what I needed a bit more. I sanded it a little more to help even out a lot of what I missed, and to make the blade more accurate in thickness.

I used more MDF to make the guard sides, glued them together and used bondo to smoothed out the edges. I cut out a slot to fit over the base of the blade, and positioned them in the correct angles.

I melted some Chavant clay into a small dixie cup the get a basic round shape. once it hardened I put it on a large drill bit and used the drill as a make-shift lathe tool, and shaped the clay to the size and shape I needed for the middle portion of the guard. I cut off the part I needed, and will soon put in all the details. I will be molding this and casting 2 parts to be sure each side has the same details.

 

[sanctuspiox]

How did it turn out? Any more pics and details?