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Episode 153 – Offending pretty much everyone!

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Episode 153 – Offending pretty much everyone!

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Episode 153 is up and at them, and it’s one of our funniest, most offensive ones in a long time.

In Games we talk Ace Combat Air Assault, Last of us, SWTOR, Hitman, Jay struggles with his new Minecraft addiction, CODBLOPS 2, XBOXONE, PS4 and mucho mucho more!
In future releases we talk fondly of Saints Row 4, and attempt to figure out what exactly XCom the bureau declassified is going to be.
We close out with some awesome emails from our awesome listeners!
Enjoy!

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London Anime Con – July 2013 – Photos

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London Anime Con – July 2013 – Photos

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Here are the photos taken by David Sampedro at the London Anime Con in July. We got around a bit so maybe you’ll spot yourself in some of them.

 

 

 

The Five Most Strangely Dressed Video Game Characters

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The Five Most Strangely Dressed Video Game Characters

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taric5. Taric (League of Legends)

Among the dozens of characters in League of Legends, there is no doubt who the most fabulously dressed champion is. Taric, the Gem Knight draws on the power of gems and crystals to aid his team mates. As such, he adorns himself with precious stones, and becomes truly, truly outrageous. His in-game joke is a reference to the theme song of the 80s cartoon ‘Jem’.

 

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4. Mike Haggar (Final Fight)

He has muscles in places where I didn’t think it was possible to have muscles, so Mike Haggar from the Final Fight series of games can be forgiven for not wearing a shirt. However, you wear your belt around your waist, not over your shoulder! It is thought that the character was based on real life wrestler Randy Savage thanks to his nickname “Macho”.

 

Bayonetta3. Bayonetta

After spending 500 years in a coffin, when I emerged I wouldn’t want to be wearing a skin tight suit. Bayonetta doesn’t seem to mind though. At first glance it may seem like a normal, backless catsuit, however closer inspection will reveal that it is made out of her hair. She also inexplicably wears three belts around each arm – it seems like this particular item of clothing is a mystery to many video game characters. Some say she was modelled after Japanese pop star Angela Aki, others insist that she bears resemblance to politician Sarah Palin.

 

kefka2. Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI)

I’m not sure how he managed to become an evil villain in Final Fantasy VI while looking like that, but Kefka Palazzo certainly knows how to dress for effect. Acting as a court mage for Emperor Gestahl explains the majority of his outfit. Regardless, his jester clothes are definitely some of the most colourful and extravagant in video game history. His laugh is highly recognisable, and can be heard in some form in many other Final Fantasy games, as well as Chrono Trigger. 

 

1. Tingle (Legend of Zelda)

If you met a 35 year old man whose goal in life was to become a forest fairy, your next move would probably to call in the men in white coats. Tingle wears a green costume, along with tight red briefs and the ensemble is topped off with a broken clock around his neck. He is widely considered ugly, annoying, and the weakest part of Wind Waker by many industry critics. Poor guy.

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Only God Forgives – 7GPPS

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Only God Forgives – 7GPPS

Only_God_Forgives_posterRyan Gosling plays Julian, an American running a Thai boxing club as a front for drug smuggling. When Julian’s brother Billy is brutally murdered after killing an underage prostitute under the watchful eye of retired cop, Chang, his Mother arrives in Bangkok and urges him to seek revenge.

There is no doubt about it that Only God Forgives is a beautifully made piece of cinema. It’s visually stunning and has a superb and well thought out soundtrack. Aesthetically, it’s a masterpiece – but damn, is it messed up.

I had high hopes from Nicolas Winding Refn on this one, particularly after his most notable film from the past few years, Drive. Also starring Ryan Gosling, Drive was an arty yet powerful film with another fantastic soundtrack. When I first saw the trailer for the new collaboration, I could barely contain my excitement. The trailer was fabulous, the music atmospheric and the plot intriguing. Then the film was reportedly booed at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year for being too violent. Well, I got a little more excited then. Anything that shocks the Cannes audience is usually worthy of a watch, and I knew that it would be stylistic violence, rather than something trashy.

Well, was I in for a shock. Only God Forgives is definitely a fine piece of cinema, but I’m not quite sure if I found it at all entertaining. It was unsettling, difficult at times and I disliked all of the characters. At first I was sympathetic for Julian, someone with some serious issues who appears to have been pushed into this lifestyle by his utterly terrifying mother, played by Kristin Scott Thomas. With a bizarre relationship and incestuous undertones, the scenes between Gosling and Scott Thomas were extremely unnerving. There’s definitely no doubt about their acting ability here.

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I had expected the film to be arty, but certainly not to this extent. It was difficult to differentiate scenes actually taking place from those that were purely in Julian’s mind, which I’m sure was the intended effect. Surreal and heavily stylised, Only God Forgives reminded me more of a piece of artwork rather than a film with a narrative that keeps you hooked.

I can certainly see the mixed response from the Cannes audience, but would argue with the complaints against the film’s violence. Described by Robbie Collins (The Telegraph) as a ‘pornography of violence’, I find the label a little over the top. There is definitely a recurrent theme of pornography and violence throughout the film, particularly in the lighting and colour palette. After all, Billy is murdered after killing a 16 year old prostitute, and commented in the early scenes of the film that he wanted to ‘fuck a 14 year old’. When his Mother demands revenge for his death, she says she’s ‘sure he had his reasons’ for this violent and terrible act. Saying that, it looks like she’s committed vile acts with her sons, so I’m sure her mind is just as messed up as his.
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Julian’s relationship with sex in the film is something that I actually did find interesting, much more so than the plot anyway. We see scenes from his imagination as he watches an ‘entertainer’ pleasure herself for him, and we’re given some fantastic metaphorical imagery in his mind. I’d started to feel for Julian at this point in the film, but that didn’t last long, for reasons I can’t really explain without spoilers. Let’s just say he does something later in the film to a corpse that’s a little unusual. No, not that! Eurgh.

Ultimately, Only God Forgives is rather violent, but it’s nothing that Tarantino doesn’t get away with. It’s overly-stylised and in small bursts. Whilst it’s difficult to watch and at times utterly vile, it’s still handled rather tastefully compared to other films of it’s kind. If you’re a film buff or big fan of Refn like me, it’s definitely worth a watch. I’m a huge fan of cinematography and it really was a treat, despite my uneasy watching of the film. However, if you’re looking for something to entertain you or a couple of hours to drool over Ryan Gosling, it really isn’t for you. Robbie Collins’ ultimate conclusion is something that I will agree on though, it’s a ‘beautiful disaster’.

To summarize, Only God Forgives – approach with caution. Or a whiskey.

Thor: The Dark World – Trailer

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Thor: The Dark World – Trailer

To coincide with Super Wednesday for Youtube’s Geek Week, Marvel have released a new trailer for the sequel Thor: The Dark World. Yes! I am just a little excited, I thoroughly enjoyed Thor, the mix of mythical and real world was done absolutely right (so I wonder why DC/Warner Bros are unable to do the same with Wonder Woman)

In this two and a half minutes we get the wonderful Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, but this time with a ‘will he, won’t he betray us’ instead of the all out bad guy, we have of course the beautiful Chris Hemsworth, in all his God like glory, with the added bonus of a little Christopher Eccleston, shame he is not more heavily featured in this trailer. Oh and Natalie Portman. 

The film is due for release 8th of November until then enjoy the trailer folks:

Cabinet of Curiosities

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Cabinet of Curiosities

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With the advent of streaming services like Netflix, Lovefilm and others vast libraries of films are now available for your viewing pleasure but navigating through these libraries can be time consuming and frustrating, often leading to missing out on the wheat hidden amongst the chaff. This is my guide to the lesser known and the somewhat obscure or cult films that film fans may have missed. The genres will be varied as will the age of the films.

Most of these should be available for viewing and if not they are worth tracking down:

Preaching to the Perverted

Henry Harding (Tom Bell), a British government minister on a moral crusade against the ‘filth’ and ‘degenerates’threatening the country convinces the naïve and sheltered Peter5280_125207863138_1150656_n (Christien Anholt), a computer whizz who works for a Christian computer company, to infiltrate a secretive BDSM club where he meets the enigmatic mistress Tanya Cheex (Guinevere Turner) and becomes involved in a world completely alien to him.

Stuart Urban’s cult comedy (recently remastered for Blu-ray thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign) is the first film to explore the twilight realm of BDSM and fetishism and it portrays the scene’s members in a non-exploitative or mocking manner, with several figures of the fetish community featuring. Turner looks nothing less than stunning in a selection of fetish outfits including a custom made suit of armor as she introduces the hapless Peter to her ‘family’ and explains why ‘vanilla sex’ is so unappealing.

There are numerous memorable characters and there’s a distinctly subversive surreal edge to things with several cameo’s from actors best known for wholesome British family entertainment including Ricky Tomlinson, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Sue Johnston.

 

Black Death

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A young monk (Eddie Redmayne) joins a motley crew of warriors commissioned by the church and lead by imposing zealot Ulric (Sean Bean) to investigate claims of a remote village that is apparently immune from the bubonic plague that is sweeping the land and decimating the populace.

Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance,Triangle) has built quite a reputation for underrated films and this is possibly his best offering . The first thing you notice is the oppressive almost choking atmosphere of Middle Age era England, mist shrouded marshes, freezing dales and miserable, gaunt looking people scraping out a living anyway they can, whilst the dead literally pile up around them. Whilst it initially has a Dirty Dozen aspect it really has more in common with underrated 60’s classic Witchfinder General than anything in contemporary cinema, it really defies easy categorisation too, which is a rare thing in modern cinema.

Charged with finding the leader of the village in question – who is suspected of necromancy and use of the dark arts, Ulric and his men are anything but merry with the Abbot saying “that man is more dangerous than the pestilence itself” in reference to Ulric. Carrying with them a vast iron maiden like device for gaining a confession out of their prey; by far the most disturbing aspect is it’s examination of the very real horror man inflicts upon his fellow man in the name of blind faith. For this rumoured untouched oasis is seen as affront to the church, for the church has decreed the plague as God’s wrath and a test of faith. One encounter with a group of witch burning locals is particularly chilling.

Nine Miles Down

nine_miles_downSecurity agent Thomas “Jack” Jackman (Adrian Paul) is sent to a drilling facility in the Sahara desert to find out why all contact with the station has been lost. After battling through sandstorms and searching the apparently abandoned facility he meets the svelte and attractive Jennie (Kate Nauta) a member of the research team based there. Thomas finds himself questioning his own mind after being plagued by horrific visions, what were they drilling for and why is there no record of Jennie on the research team and what happened to the other team members?

There are echo’s of John Carpenter’s The Thing and Paul Andersen’s Event Horizon in this far better than you would expect psychological thriller. It’s opening scenes of Jackman stumbling around amidst a howling sandstorm before finally finding shelter in the disturbingly quiet facility set up the sense of isolation well. The first appearance of Jennie, as if out of nowhere, is well done and the sense of ambiguity about what’s actually happening is well handled. With Jackman seeing so many jarring and disturbing things you’re wondering what’s real and what’s not just as much as he is as the paranoia kicks in.

The numerous and varied hallucinations are well done, from a whole cluster of hands tapping on the windscreen of Jackman’s jeep as he tries to sleep outside amidst a sandstorm to one scene where Jackman sees a demonic reflection of himself in a mirror, which is reflected into infinity in the mirror behind, and then raises a gun against his forehead and tiny flashes are shown in the far distance, which as they come closer reveal themselves to be gunshots of each of the reflections shooting themselves in the head.

 The Burrowers

burrowers-21879 and beyond the fringes of civilization a handful of settlements have built up while exploring the unknown territories. One night, under cover of darkness a family from one of these settlements is brutally dragged into darkness by a group of unknown invaders. The kidnappers are thought to be hostile Native Americans, and a posse forms to bring the family back home safely. The frightening truth they discover in the hills leads them to believe man may not be the only hunter stalking the Old West.

 Writer/director J.T. Petty’s The Burrowers has one cowboy boot planted firmly in both the Western and Horror genres, it’s a rare combination and even rarer still it’s works far better than you would expect. Featuring genre veteran Clancy Brown in a rare good guy role, excellent cinematography courtesy of Phil Marmet and the creature FX courtesy of Robert Hall’s Almost Human, Inc are reassuringly old school.

With Clancy Brown, William Mapother, Doug Hutchison, Sean Patrick Thomas and Karl Geary, Petty has a believable cast benefiting from a better than you would think script. With Hutchinson and Brown fighting for standout performance with Hutchinson’s sneeringly heartless Henry Victor and Brown’s weathered John Clay being far more than the archetypes they could have been.

 The Horseman

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Christian (Peter Marshall) has just been informed his daughter has been found dead with a cocktail of drugs in her system and signs of sexual trauma. Whilst lost in his grieving, a video anonymously arrives starring his daughter clearly under the influence of something and several men. Fuelled by a burning rage, he sets out to discover who’s behind his daughters death leaving a trail of blood, broken bones and carnage in his wake. Along the way he meets Alice (Caroline Marohasy) a young runaway not unlike his daughter and a fragile friendship begins to grow.

While the cast as a whole do a good job, it’s undoubtedly Peter Marshall that steals the show with a blisteringly intense performance which finds him literally frothing at the mouth in one scene. As well as some of the worst violence and retribution occurring off-screen – another of the films best assets is it’s undeniable grounding in reality. Christian isn’t some beefed up Tyler Durden alpha male figure but rather just a regular loving father pushed beyond breaking point. This realism runs through proceedings particularly in several brutal confrontations, with Christian utilising the advantage of surprise to brutal effect. Never more so than in the film’s opening scene featuring a point of view perspective of an anonymous man opening a door and saying “hi” only to be met by a crowbar in the face as a feral Christian demands answers whilst smashing up his home before a flashback reveals the source of his rage.

The proliferation of a vast swathe of films of varying, but mostly inferior quality, depicting torture and suffering in recent years has lead to a desensitised audience and robbed violence of it’s ability to shock. The Horseman snaps the viewer out of their jaded ‘seen it all haze’ with the explosive force of a nailbomb and is shot through with a disturbing moral ambiguity.

Bruce Willis Replaced on The Expendables 3

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Bruce Willis Replaced on The Expendables 3

So it seems that the growing noise about Bruce Willis being a bit of a tool isn’t without reason, as Sylvester Stallone recently took to Twitter to announce his delight at replacing John McClane with Han Solo:

[quote]”WILLIS OUT… HARRISON FORD IN !!!! GREAT NEWS !!!!! Been waiting years for this!!!!” [/quote]

Stallone then went on to say the following about Bruce Willis:

[quote]”GREEDY AND LAZY …… A SURE FORMULA FOR CAREER FAILURE.”[/quote]

This isn’t the first time that there have been rumblings about the actor not being willing to put in a shift: Kevin Smith famously was very disappointed when working with him on Cop Out, calling him a ‘Pay Cheque Player’ and ‘someone… who didn’t want to be there.’ Many people unfairly dismissed this as Kevin being unhappy with the lack of success for the film, but there have been other hints as well, such as with the below, cringe-inducingly awful interview Bruce gave to Magic 105.4 during the the Press for RED2:

It seems that sadly, the actor who many geeks have grown up with as a staple for awesome kickass roles is tiring of the industry, or simply of having to be nice to people.

Chainsword prop build for Sisters of Battle Cosplay: Part 1

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Chainsword prop build for Sisters of Battle Cosplay: Part 1

 Sister of Battle Cosplay

So today I decided it was about time I started work on my Sister of Battle cosplay. This is a long term project I took upon myself  after seeing a lot of art work of the Sister’s of Battle from the Warhammer universe and as I have never worked with armor before this will be a massive learning curve. I decided to start with something I have had practice in; prop making and chose to make this process into a two part blog, part one is the build, part two will be the painting.

The two weapons which I am wanting to make for this cosplay are shown in the picture.

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Right now I am concentrating on the chainsword, I made this decision because as I have made guns in the past but I have never made anything like this. To make this as cheaply as possible I have decided to make it from cardboard. I know this isn’t the best material ever but I have had success with it in the past and I want to put this cosplay together as cheaply but effectively as possible!  

So, this is going to be a cheap way of making a large prop.  Obviously this was made cheaper for me because I had 90% of these materials lying around my house already! So if you don’t it will probably work out a little bit more expensive! 

For both parts of this build you will need;

  • Cardboard (lots of it)
  • Stanley knife
  • Scissors
  • Pen (I chose a sharpie)
  • Ruler
  • Glue gun and glue gun sticks
  • Carving foam
  • Acrylic paint/ spray paints
  • Paintbrushes
  • PVA glue
  • Newspaper
  • Gesso (I will discuss this at the end)
  • Sand paper and sanding tools
  • Any extra bits and bobs to make your prop look more awesome!

 Part One: The Build

In this blog I am only going to cover the construction of the sword so you start off with the following items:

  • Cardboard (lots of it)
  • Stanley knife
  • Scissors
  • Pen
  • Ruler
  • Glue gun and glue gun sticks
  • Sanding tools

Optional: (Bits I used to make my sword look a little bit more effective)

  • Carving foam
  • Wire
  • Bauble?!?!?!

References

 The first stage is finding your reference picture/ pictures. I normally work from a few reference pictures at any one time to get the various details of the piece but with this I have only been able to find the one picture that looks like what I want. But this is a simple design that I should be able to recreate fairly easily.the_sister_of_battle_by_lordhannu-d53zevycropped

The good thing about making props like this that I can allow myself a few creative allowances so this means that I don’t make them identical to the original piece; this is why I like to make P1060440Borderlands guns because you can put your own individuality and creativity into them. So my chainsword is going to be a bit more chucky than this with bigger teeth!

 Making the body of the blade

What I would normally do first with my prop is draw it out onto paper to get the size right before transferring this to the cardboard/ foam ect. But in this case because the prop is so big I used my trusty ruler and drew straight onto the cardboard.

First simply draw the length of the blade by drawing two long rectangles! If you struggle to get sizes right my blade P1060441runs about 85cm long and 10cm wide! When I am happy with the size of my blade I cut it out with a Stanley knife. I am no good at cutting straight lines so I had to go back and tidy it up a couple of times.

After I have cut these out I draw on the curve of the blade, this may take a couple of times to get right but if you are struggling to get it right  sketch it out on a piece of paper before going straight to the cardboard. Once you have cut one out you can then trace the curve onto the other piece of cardboard!

So next my cat then decides to intervene with my progress by being all cute and stuff on the part of the cardboard that I am using so I have to take a ten minute break to play…

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Once my cat decides that my ruler is no longer hunt worthy; I then cut two long strips of cardboard that are longer than the blade itself and about 5cm wide. And then comes the tricky bit; putting the pieces together. These two long bits will become the runner where the teeth of the chainsaw will sit.

 

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So I realised once I started glue gunning my cardboard together that I should have drawn a straight line where I wanted the edge of the cardboard to go (which was about a cm in from the edge of the blade) but I went in blind and it didn’t work out too bad. Cut any excess card board and glue the seams together.

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At this point that I needed to make room for the engine so I measure a section at the handle end of blade that is about 4cm x 17cm and use a Stanley knife to cut this part out.

 

 

 

Constructing the handle

I then move onto my crafting foam for the handle I cut a long rod of carving foam around 44cm long and 2cm squared (I’ll explain why in a second). When I carve it into a basic cylinder I realise that this is not going to be strong enough so I use it as a base to wrap cardboard around and this makes the handle super sturdy! I glue gun the cardboard together, try and make the edges of the cardboard fairly neat but this is not super important as later we will be wrapping faux leather around it.

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I cut a section of cardboard out to about 1cm from the top of the inside of the sword. I stack some pieces of cardboard up inside the top of the sword so that is fits snuggly when glued together, adding more strength to the handle. I made the handle so long because I wanted it to go quite far into the blade of the sword, so I left about 28cm of my handle showing, the rest of it is glued to the stack of cardboard within the blade.

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Carving the Engine

I then decide to concentrate on making the engine part because my carving foam is only a couple of cm thick I draw two rectangles the foam, both about 10cm by 15cm. I roughly draw my design on and once I have cut the rectangles out I then begin carving and sanding. I also cut out another circle to fit on top of this. Carving foam is not necessary for this part of the build, it can be done out of cardboard! Just draw your design onto cardboard and cut out.

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Once both sides have been carved out with your chosen design (I just carved grooves into the other side so both sides are different) I then slotted them into the gap so that I could measure the gap left. I then made them fit by measuring out some strips of cardboard and gluing them down the sides and along the bottom of the ‘engine’ I don’t need to cover the bottom because as we slot this into place and glue it down it won’t be seen! Once the engine is all glued together use your glue gun to stick it to the underside of the sword.

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Don’t worry about any gaps around the handle of the sword, you can cover this with your paper mache later on.

Final touches

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After this I spend a while working out how to make the circular bit at the end of the handle… I am just about to give up hope when the cat bombs past chasing one of his toys, which happens to be a bauble he stole from the Christmas tree! Obviously I would feel like the world’s worst criminal if I stole his bauble so I went and scavenged one out of the Christmas box. I used my glue gun to stick this on the end! It was quite handy actually as you can use the top of the bauble, which normally attaches it to the tree and slot it into the end of the handle! Again this could be made out of cardboard… I’m just lazy…

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This bit took a lot of experimentation; I cut out a circular piece of cardboard with an inner circle that is cut out, it also has another circular outcrop for the wire to run through. I cut through to the middle circle so that I can just slot the handle through and then I glue this to the bauble so that the circular outcrop points down.

 

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I then thread two pieces of wire through this and into the cardboard keeping the engine together (about 3cm up from the bottom) the wire should pierce the cardboard easily. Glue one edge to the cardboard below the cardboard and glue the wire where it enters the cardboard on the engine.

 

 

I then draw the switch to power the chainsword on to carving foam and carve this out. Again this can be done with cardboard. And then I glue this to the engine below the sword handle.

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I stick two circles of cardboard to each side of the area above the curve of my sword to later act as bolts. If you have screws/ nails/ ect that have big enough heads to look good on this that would be absolutely epic looking! If this is the case make the holes for them and add them after the model had been painted! 

 

 

Lastly I draw and cut out the shape of the teeth. I have decided to stick these on after I have painted the model! It will make them easier to paper mache and paint and it will also make the prop easier to paper mache and paint! So I’m going to keep these separate until the very end of  completion.

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So, folks, that’s it for the build.

So far

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Next steps

I know the cardboard doesn’t look brilliant at this point but what I am going to do before putting up part two is I am going to papier mache this bad boy until all the kinks are gone from the cardboard and I am then going to cover this with the Gesso and sand it down. This process can be seen in the following tutorial;

http://firelilycosplay.deviantart.com/art/Paper-Mache-Armor-and-Prop-Tutorial-277344661

Part two, the painting of the sword, will come next week!

GEEK PRIDE CAST EPs# 7 – DR…WHO?

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GEEK PRIDE CAST EPs# 7 – DR…WHO?

On last weeks cast we had our first American caster, this week we have our first Romanian… World wide or what?!

We talk about the new Dr Who, how women objectify men (sob), Vampires (when in Rome..ania) and we try out a new section where each cast memeber talks about a book they have read, a game they have played, a movie they have watched or something geeky and awesome like that.

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The Flying Man

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The Flying Man

A new superhero is coming, only this time it’s on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero?

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This really cool short film, and the directorial debut for SFX man Marcus Alqueres, gives us a brief glimpse of a realistic, mysterious super hero, focusing on the questions of vigilantism and justice. Alqueres has done a great job here- the effects are brilliant, especially considering the budget and time scale, but do not dominate the film, which is well-paced and carefully constructed to give us very deliberate perspectives on the events.

Released on the 8th of July the film got chosen as a Vimeo Staff Pick within the first two days of release, and is getting a lot of positive attention around the internet. Alqueres has chosen to bypass the film festivals and traditional release routes and go for a solely internet distribution. He has a great Facebook page for the film, with lots of production info and interaction, and an active Twitter account for updates and info.

The film is entertaining and engaging as a short, but could also be a really good start to bigger things- if this was a trailer I would be watching the full film!

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