*Oblivion Keyblade (papermache) by blind_stranger

*Oblivion Keyblade (papermache)

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AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!! AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...After four moths of slaving-away over this thingy, I have both developed severe tendonitus and never been happier w/ mt art! :D
(and it's only the third keyblade I've ever made!) ^-^

(note): The little keyblade in the box on the right is the official-art of Oblivion-- I included it so that you guys could compare my sculpture to it. :)
(Oh, and that hand is mine just so ya know... and it's the one w/out the tendonitus cause that keyblade is actualy REALLY heavy!!) ^_~

I hope you like my keyblade!! :D
(if u wanna know how I made it you'll have to ask cause it's insanely long and complicated)

Please tell me what you think! *hopefull grin* :B

__________________________________________________
(2 years later)
Update!!! =D

Ok, now that all the water's actually gone out of it, it hardly weighs /anything/ anymore! 0.o

Materials used:
~ newspaper
~ cardboard from cerrial-boxes
~ diluted glue
~ colored tisue-paper
~ purple nail-varnish (for the two jewls at either end)

...just one problem though: the tissuepaper on the handle is peeling and turning funny shades of brown and yellow now, because of skin-oil, so I'll be repairing it with white-slick faberic paint (because its' water/oil-proof) just as soon as I get some before shots w/ my camera.

so....
~ white-slick faberic paint

:-)

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Category Games » - by Publisher » Square-Enix » Kingdom Hearts series » Keyblades
Date Submitted August 14, 2004, 4:20:10 PM
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_rdrz12_ on July 18, 2006, 10:24:10 PM

Is this realy made out of a cereal box!?

_rdrz12_ on July 18, 2006, 10:15:08 PM

Hey, thanks for the advice! A friend of mine owns a bookstore so I might be able to get good paint for free or have a discount on it. I'm gonna be doing a few pointilism on it to add texture if it needs extra.

blind_stranger on July 18, 2006, 10:50:01 AM

It dries 3-dimensional; for water-based and really runny paints, they'll often spread themselves smoothly/distribute themselves evenly over a surface. But this t-shirt paint leaves a texture. It doesn't run; so, however it comes out of the sqiz-thing is how it's gonna look when it's dry.

And also... *could not stay on before, cuz of a big lightning storm* 0.0
About the canvas-acrylic, I went and looked at the tube I had, and 'turns out it's only 4oz------so now, I can't remember if it costed $5 or $7. So don't take my word for it; maybe it was just that store that was expensive. All I really remember was thinking just how easy it would be to blow $50 on that stuff if I ever wanted to paint something majorly colorful. *is addicted to pwetty colors* :-)

Canvas-acrylic also drys kinda 3D, cuz it's so thick, which's why it's good for canvases-------because anything thinner would take-on the grid-like texture of the canvas! (oil paint also has that texture-resisting property, but I wouldn't recommend it for keyblades) 0_x

_rdrz12_ on July 18, 2006, 7:09:11 AM

Forgot to add:
whatdya mean about 'drying 3D'?

_rdrz12_ on July 18, 2006, 7:07:36 AM

I don't really worry about cash(not that Im rich or sumthin). I have been saving for making this project.

I think I'll try that fabric paint. I once used that kind of paint and I suck but that was 6 years ago I'm bound to be better now!

blind_stranger on July 18, 2006, 6:58:50 AM

Awe nuts! *keeps 4getting 2 color txt* >.<

The paint I want to try using next is t-shirt fabric paint. (Tulip brand)
I got a ton o' that stuff, and I use it on everything... (the best thing about it is that it's waterproof; the tricky part is that it dries 3D, when you want it to and even when you don't want it to)

This is the stuff that I'm using to fix Oblivion's peeling handle. It's waterproof, so it should protect against hand-grease as well. :-)

blind_stranger on July 18, 2006, 6:44:20 AM

lol. ^_^

I tried using acrylic when I made my first KingdomKey and possessed-Riku's DarkKeyblade....it's easy enough, but the downside is that, if you try to dual (even gently!!!) with them, they leave little paintmarks on eachother. :-(

Maybe it just depends on the quality of paint, but the good(canvas)-quality stuff is kinda expensive, like, $7 for a 5oz tube. (I had used the watery poster-acrylic kind)

As far as I know, the tissuepaper method doesn't leave any marks. (solid pprmache keyblades r too heavy to dual w/ though------the Kingdom & Dark I made were both hollow cardboard)

_rdrz12_ on July 17, 2006, 11:10:55 PM

I'm experimenting too! I'll try using acri paint and then I'll try papermache(I have two unidentified models)

blind_stranger on July 17, 2006, 10:08:31 AM

I papermached it with colored tissuepaper. :-)

It's a method that actually works quite well....except that it turns your glue colors too...

Next keyblade I make I'm going to use a whole BUNCH of mediums, and see how the different mixtures of textures work. :-)

_rdrz12_ on July 17, 2006, 7:03:25 AM

What did you use to paint this? or did you just wrap it with colored tissue papr?

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