Contec
Master Member
I got an request from my sister if i had or did know, where to get a grenade. I thought that sounded a little ODD coming from her so i asked a little more and it turned out she wanted to give her boyfriend the Mohawk grenade. She had planned on getting a toy grenade and paint it gold and give him.
I told her that i could make one for her because I had read this topic and seen the nice pictures
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=74965&page=2&highlight=mohawk
Hope you enjoy it as much as i have building it...Next year im going to make my own and make it more accurate and nicer :thumbsup
Building the grenade:
First i though of making it out of super sculpey but then i thought of Pepakura. So i started making a 3d model of the grenade and unfolded it in pepakura designer.
The first papermodel that i built was too big because i had read the measurement wrong.
The third or forth one was the perfect size.
So i built it and cut a square hole in the top then i pored a little Polyurethane resin into it and slushed it around until it had harden. Then i pored a tiny bit more into it and used tape to seal the hole at the top and turned the whole thing upside down.
When it had dried i peeled away the paper and there was the grenade
I used an Xacto blade to cut the "damage" into it and used bondo to connect the resin dome part which i had also used pepakura to make.
Grenade primed and testing size for handle, and feathers. The white one are from my sisters cockatoo's and the a friends peacock.
Handle made from styrene and bondo.
Test fitting
Big ring made from layered styrene and small rings cut from a plastic pipe.
Big leap forward....Painted.. Copper for the grenade part, mattblack for the handle.
Photo shoot..
I told her that i could make one for her because I had read this topic and seen the nice pictures
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=74965&page=2&highlight=mohawkHope you enjoy it as much as i have building it...Next year im going to make my own and make it more accurate and nicer
:thumbsupBuilding the grenade:
First i though of making it out of super sculpey but then i thought of Pepakura. So i started making a 3d model of the grenade and unfolded it in pepakura designer.
The first papermodel that i built was too big because i had read the measurement wrong.
The third or forth one was the perfect size.
So i built it and cut a square hole in the top then i pored a little Polyurethane resin into it and slushed it around until it had harden. Then i pored a tiny bit more into it and used tape to seal the hole at the top and turned the whole thing upside down.
When it had dried i peeled away the paper and there was the grenade
I used an Xacto blade to cut the "damage" into it and used bondo to connect the resin dome part which i had also used pepakura to make.
Grenade primed and testing size for handle, and feathers. The white one are from my sisters cockatoo's and the a friends peacock.
Handle made from styrene and bondo.
Test fitting
Big ring made from layered styrene and small rings cut from a plastic pipe.
Big leap forward....Painted.. Copper for the grenade part, mattblack for the handle.
Photo shoot..
