Creating a Knife for Figures with Closed Fists Custom Tutorial

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Creating a Knife for Figures with Closed Fists Custom Tutorial

How to create a knife for figures with closed fists.

This custom tutorial was contributed by Deaditor

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Reference

Now you could just take a knife, cut it in half and stick it into his hand, but why break a knife and prevent future use for it. For reference I used the Deathstroke Arrow series leg knife for reference and began by gluing 3 this pieces of plastic sheet taken from a mezco box and cut out the top knife shape and the bottom pummel or base of knife.

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Carving

To get that nice knife shape I took scissiors and files to 'sharpen' the knife and by this I mean give the appearance of a sharpened knife not actually sharp

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Base/ Pummel

Next I used apoxy to cover the bottom and round the handle part.

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Rest of knife

Initially I tried sculping the top guard but it would probably break so I sculpted a continuation of the handle at the top and the guard comes next.

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The guard

for this I took 2 bits of plastic sheet, cut a line hole through them and glued together and then shaped into and oval. Then I just slid it over the blade and glued

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Tune up

Here I made the details clearer and slowly removed excess clay making the knife thinner and thinner to fit its skeleton and look more even.

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Base coat and layer

So here after coating the dried apoxy in glue for strength I painted it black, then Painted a second coat with dark silver for the blade and a bright silver lining on the 'sharpened' part

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Result

As you can see Joker now feels more complete. You could use this method to give him stain glass shard knives like he uses at the end of the game by making only the blade and using a sharpie to colour transparent red, or better yet use red clear plastic

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