Hexapuma
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So my partner wants to do Ursula the Sea Witch as a cosplay. She's working on the dress while I agreed to do the Trident, Crown and Seashell Necklace. This thread is covering the Trident.
Now obviously using Disney character proportions to judge the size of objects is tricky as they're not really Human scale, but when it's all you've got to go by there's not much other choice.
Now, using my own hand as a scale, the Trident Head is about 20 to 25cm long (Although it's difficult to tell since Triton's hand looks to be bigger than his head!) I'm terrible at freehand drawing, so I used an art package to drop a grid over the trident and then just worked out, based on the 20/25cm length, how big each square was. I then printed out squared paper with a slightly larger square and copied the contents of each square to the paper by hand. Much easier way to replicate a curving shape like that.
Next, I cut out the paper shapes, glued them to a 1mm thick plastic sheet and then set to work cutting that out.
I'll be tracing these on to some 10mm thick pine board later and cutting them out on a bandsaw.
For the haft, I picked up some Colorail steel wardrobe rail, 19mm, 1.8m in black. It has the advantage of being strong and rigid but not too heavy (And is, most of all, cheap!) I'm going to cut that into 1m and 80cm sections and make brass fittings on the lathe to fit it all together.
Now obviously using Disney character proportions to judge the size of objects is tricky as they're not really Human scale, but when it's all you've got to go by there's not much other choice.
Now, using my own hand as a scale, the Trident Head is about 20 to 25cm long (Although it's difficult to tell since Triton's hand looks to be bigger than his head!) I'm terrible at freehand drawing, so I used an art package to drop a grid over the trident and then just worked out, based on the 20/25cm length, how big each square was. I then printed out squared paper with a slightly larger square and copied the contents of each square to the paper by hand. Much easier way to replicate a curving shape like that.
Next, I cut out the paper shapes, glued them to a 1mm thick plastic sheet and then set to work cutting that out.
I'll be tracing these on to some 10mm thick pine board later and cutting them out on a bandsaw.
For the haft, I picked up some Colorail steel wardrobe rail, 19mm, 1.8m in black. It has the advantage of being strong and rigid but not too heavy (And is, most of all, cheap!) I'm going to cut that into 1m and 80cm sections and make brass fittings on the lathe to fit it all together.
