Scoots3567
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Seems there's something in the water, in Cal-Hab. I thought I'd share a build I've been working on (slower than I'd like) since February, and which I've been showing as a WIP on the Facebook Judges groups in the UK & the USA. A fair bit of favourable response over the last few months, I am pleased to say, given it's my first straight build in over 15 years.
It's a faithful comic build, in all but one way. In Cal-Hab Justice, the Judges are spoken of as using clay mores, yet they are pictured with claybegs (the great sword, versus the small sword). The basket handled claybeg came to prominence in history through its Lowland/English connections and origins. The claymore, though, was a weapon of the clans of the Gael long, long before that.
So for my build, I commissioned a con-friendly claymore, from the very talented Darren Langthorne of Purgeworx Props. He didn't fail to deliver me something I find quite special.
But, to begin with, I started with the toughest part- the one I want to nail just right. The lion buckler shield.
I used cardboard (yup, guilty!) and cut out my large pentagon, having sketched out my lion's face from the classic John Ridgeway McBrayne poster (my pal Kelpy's favourite) and cut and stapled the sides inwards, to make my curves, before I soaked it in pva glue. I covered it in newspaper and repeated it several times over, then when that was dry, I turned it over and repeated the process on the inside.
After this, I skinned the cardboard in worbla, resulting in a nice tough lightweight shell.
It's a faithful comic build, in all but one way. In Cal-Hab Justice, the Judges are spoken of as using clay mores, yet they are pictured with claybegs (the great sword, versus the small sword). The basket handled claybeg came to prominence in history through its Lowland/English connections and origins. The claymore, though, was a weapon of the clans of the Gael long, long before that.
So for my build, I commissioned a con-friendly claymore, from the very talented Darren Langthorne of Purgeworx Props. He didn't fail to deliver me something I find quite special.
But, to begin with, I started with the toughest part- the one I want to nail just right. The lion buckler shield.
I used cardboard (yup, guilty!) and cut out my large pentagon, having sketched out my lion's face from the classic John Ridgeway McBrayne poster (my pal Kelpy's favourite) and cut and stapled the sides inwards, to make my curves, before I soaked it in pva glue. I covered it in newspaper and repeated it several times over, then when that was dry, I turned it over and repeated the process on the inside.
After this, I skinned the cardboard in worbla, resulting in a nice tough lightweight shell.
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