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How to Make a Viking Axe out of EVA Foam Perfect for your Assassins Creed Valhalla Cosplay
hey guys steve here at sks props today we’re making a cosplay safe viking axe welcome to our shop in our last video i showed you how to build a cosplay safe viking shield and in this video i want to show you how to build an axe to go along with it now once again this is made all out of my hd foam which you guys can find over at blick art materials online and in select stores because it is a foam fabrication it’s extremely light but most importantly it is completely con safe now just like the shield i have a template that you guys can download and you can build right along with this video i want to show you guys the steps that it takes to put this together we got a lot to do so let’s get started first thing to do is print out and tape together the viking axe template that i had made you guys can find a free download for this so you can build right along with the video once the template had been cut out it was transferred onto some 10 millimeter hd foam this was then copied and cut out two more times to give this ax some rigidity i’m going to be using a yard marker fiberglass rod the rod was marked to length and cut on the bandsaw i trace around the rod using a ballpoint pen and then cut out the channel using a blick utility knife once that section had been removed the rod could be inserted it is fairly important that the rod is pretty snug inside this piece to glue the three sections of 10 millimeter hd foam together i’ll be using contact cement a scrap piece of foam is used to apply the contact cement directly to the surface now with contact cement you want to make sure that is applied in a very thin manner you do not want it thick because it will have a hard time setting up i use a hair dryer to speed up the dry time and a small bit of super glue on the middle layer a pvc pipe is used as a rolling pin to make sure that the layers are firmly pressed together super glue is applied to the bottom and the fiberglass rod can be inserted additional contact cement is now applied to the top layer making sure that everything lines up just right the top layer is laid into place and the pvc rolling pin is used once again the template is used one more time just to make sure that everything is lined up perfect and then the entire piece is cut out on the bandsaw now we have a perfect block with a fiberglass core to start to refine the handle i take the piece over to my sanding station and use my belt sander now if you don’t have a belt sander that’s no problem you can still do this process with a knife and rotary tools once i have the general shape i switch over to a dremel rotary tool and start to slowly refine until i have the handle size that i want now in this process i’m using a medium grit sanding drum and you want to make sure that you’re not moving too quickly you want to move in a very slow deliberate process starting to give the handle that wood grain texture i’m pretty pleased with how everything looks so i take a sanding sponge and lightly buff the surface here you can see those small variations i was talking about that the sanding drum leaves on the surface moving on to the head of the axe i cut out my template and transfer that onto some 10 millimeter hd foam now i want this to be seamless in the back so i’m actually going to butterfly these together now for the axe head to sit properly part of the top of the handle needs to be removed and i do that using my dremel rotary tool so you can see how the head of the axe will wrap around this section to give it a seamless look i take the template over to my bandsaw and cut out one side of the axe head you could also do this as two separate parts contact cement is applied to both sides of the axe head along with a handle and a little bit of super glue starting at the back i press the handle into the foam of the axe head and then work my way around making sure that i’ve got enough foam for it to overlap on both sides the additional foam around the template is easily trimmed away with my bandsaw the belt sander is once again used to clean up the seam and start to define the cutting edge of the axe a medium grit sanding drum is used to clean up the surface and get rid of any imperfections and then a smooth sanding drum is used to refine the surface and start to give it a hammered metal look i cut and glue a small scrap piece of hd foam to make it look as though a wedge is driven into the top of the handle going back to my template i use a pencil to lightly mark where the leather wrap will go around the handle i start at the bottom and slowly work my way up the handle using some two millimeter hd foam and some super glue when i get to the top i wrap it around the axe head a couple of times and then cut off my excess working in the opposite direction i wrap up the axe handle until i get to the top and then once again cut off the excess i continue this leather wrap process for the part of the handle where you hold the weapon as well here i added a lot more of the leather strapping to really make it look functional to simulate the small tacks in the leather straps i use the end of a ballpoint pen pressing firmly into the foam after all the tack heads have been added i did a light heat treatment on the entire surface to give this leather a distressed look we’re going to use the tin foil technique so take your heat gun slightly heat up the surface and press tin foil directly into it this will emboss the foam and give it a leathery look just like any time we’re doing this technique you want to do it in a well ventilated area and you always want to make sure to have your respirator to seal this piece off we’re going to be using a flex bond and paint mixture the colors used will be utrecht bran raw sienna burnt sienna and mars black once you have your colors you can mix them directly into the flex bond this will tint it and then you can paint this directly onto your prop i start off using a mop brush to apply the mixture to make sure that it gets all over the entire prop and then switch over to a smaller filbert brush to get rid of any of the additional paint that’s building up in places and to make sure that it moves around the entire surface the leather on the handle wrap was specifically tricky to make sure that the paint got down in between all the layers to speed up the process i got out my hair dryer this will actually help the paint dry fairly quickly for a little bit of contrast the head of the axe was painted with a mixture of flex bond and utrecht brand mars black i started to paint the leather wrap on the handle using a half inch filbert brush and utrecht brand burnt sienna unlike the other paint applications this was not done to cover but to highlight the next application of paint was from the utrecht brand it was a mixture of raw sienna and burnt sienna then finally an application of pure raw sienna was applied to certain spots as a highlight liquitex heavy body iridescent rich silver was first brushed then stippled onto the head of the axe this would help with the hammered metal look a little bit of the browns that were used on the handle and leather wrap were then applied to the axe head just to grunge it up a little bit then iridescent ridge silver was applied to all of the tack heads a little bit of mars black was applied to the deeper gouges in the axe head now you can see the steps it takes to put together a con safe shield and actually be perfect for a viking cosplay now if you guys are building any of my builds or using hd phone be sure to tag blick and sks props on twitter and instagram because we love seeing your progress hopefully you guys are enjoying these videos and if you are give them a thumbs up and share with your friends and family and until next time thanks for stopping by .
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The Socio-economic Duty #AMoreEqualWales
Welcome to the socio-economic duty: a film for public sector senior leaders and those involved in taking key strategic decisions such as chief executives, chairs, elected members, board members and governance leads. This film should be considered alongside guidance documents The Socio-economic Duty provides an opportunity to put addressing inequality at the heart of our decision making. Never has there been a more pertinent time to act. Earlier in the summer we saw the Black Lives Matter protests which highlighted systemic and sutural racism in our society.
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2: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata with Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
So greetings and welcome to our series of WikiCite discussion series brought to you by IFLA, the WikiCite Project and the Wikimedia Foundation by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group. We’re really pleased to come to you today and we want to acknowledge and thank the WikiCite Project, Wikimedia Foundation for funds to support this work as well as IFLA. The Wikidata Working Group for IFLA exists to encourage and support the use and development of Wikidata and Wikibase by the professional library community.
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Montante: How to defend a breach in a wall - Swords of the Renaissance 2020
That’s great, then we’ll begin We thought to go straight into the action we won’t do mechanics or striking techniques or something like that just straight action :) Could you form up a crude line and count 1 & 2 for two groups please? Okay! We want to defend a breach in the wall! So imagine you are a member of a castle garrison the attackers dug a tunnel beneath the wall and the wall collapsed.
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[GTA SA] Entrevista Cris Formage legendada em português (PT-BR) (WCTR)
Announcer: “The most boring show, with a brand new host! Entertaining America with Lazlow.” Lazlow: “Welcome to Entertaining America on WCTR with me, Lazlow. So, the media. You may hate us, but, I gotta tell ya’, we hate ourselves more. And stop accusing us of being liberal! What a load of crap! This station is owned by AmmuNation! I mean, have you ever heard anyone complain about guns on this station?
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[INSIDE SEVENTEEN] ‘HOME;RUN’ 활동 비하인드 #2 (‘HOME;RUN’ Behind #2)
[INSIDE SEVENTEEN] [M COUNT DOWN] I’m here at the M COUNT DOWN. [How was 2020 Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards?] It was really interesting to perform with audiences in a while. [(HOSHI misses performing with CARAT)] I haven’t shown ‘Left & Right’ properly at all. It’s the same for ‘My My’ and ‘Fearless’ I haven’t properly shown tracked songs of new albums at all. I really want to show all of these songs on the stage.
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MewGulf | Cảm Nhận Về Những Cảm Xúc Trong Tình Cảm Của MG Qua Những Sự Việc Gần Nhất
The fact that Mew brought back the bunny after nearly five months when the fans seemed to have forgotten that story still made my knees tremble. I cannot get out of it and keep thinking: why bring it back? Why now? And why have to hand each other? And… The only answer I got was the confusion of Pi Mew’s intricate brain. Let this story become a lesson to all of us about his profundity.
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5 Must Have Weight Loss Tips to Lose Weight for the VERY LAST TIME.
This was me 16 years ago. well good morning everyone it’s Silvestro known as the weight loss king, and for those who don’t know of me I help women lose weight for the very last time I myself had lost 80 kilos 16 years ago when I had my moment of truth, and I knew that I was ready to lose weight for the very last time and welcome to let’s chat which is episode seven things are going so quickly, and it’s Monday here in Sydney Australia, and we always have our motivational Mondays and how do we start the week in the right direction and I’m just thinking back when I was losing weight myself, and what was Mondays like and I used to dread Mondays Mondays were a day where you would just i would just punish me for the week that I just had now you do read Mondays thinking okay this is it I’m gonna go on another diet and I’m gonna stick to the diet, and you have all the right intentions to make amends of what happened over the weekend if you’re over eight or what the case maybe I think we all strive to have the intention to really make sure that this time it’s it this is the time that we are gonna finally stick and change our lifestyle and not go back to our old habits and start to create new habits and start behaving and making better choices and being prepared to be organized, and that’s it we’re going to make it happen, but for some reason, we fall back into that rotten, and by Tuesday or Wednesday we haven’t stuck to our promise so when we are going to lose weight for the very last time it’s all about sticking to our promise stick and tell our world our integrity that we are going to lose weight for the very last time now if you’re being on this weight loss mirror go around up and down up and down you really need to stop I mean stop and if you love this video you love my all my other videos I’ll put some links um down below and please subscribe to my youtube channel even though this is a live Facebook video which is on my group I do upload them to my youtube channel so please subscribe and like and I’m all about losing weight for the very last time I’m very passionate about helping people to finally get the roller coaster off the merry-go-round of the dreaded Mondays where we want to pick things up and so let’s work on that let’s work on the motivation because motivation is made up of action because action creates momentum and momentum creates the feeling that I call being inspired like inspiration and start today is doing just one thing that you can and will to make a change that’s practical advice I can really think of is that’s is that one what can you do today that one small step that one small action that you can take today that will give you the momentum to keep on moving forward so let’s go back to this Mondays you’re dreading Mondays, and we need to work on that moment where you feel inspired that you had this get up and go saying I’m going to do it, so you need to set yourself up that the benefits of losing weight for the very last time there are plenty out there there are plenty health benefits of losing weight for the very last time there are plenty financial benefits of losing weight for the very last time there are plenty emotional benefits of losing weight for the very last time there are lots of benefits of losing weight for a very last time so Why did we fall into the trap that we go back onto the merry-go- round, so we need to really stop and look at the reasons why we fall back you know we we we go back into those bad habits and routines, and we need to stop so let’s look at I want to give you?
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The Greatest Footrace - Comrades Marathon | practice English with Spotlight
Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Liz Waid. And I’m Adam Navis. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. “As I walk toward the mountain, I try to understand what has gone wrong. This does not help. I am in good shape. I have not run too fast. I ate and drank liquids. Normally, I am great at knowing what my body can do.
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O MAIOR DE TODOS?! HAMILTON CHEGA AO 7º TITULO COM VITÓRIA GIGANTE
Lewis Hamilton won the seventh title in Turkey after a gala show he started in sixth, managed to overtake the important ones and still had a race management, a vision of racing far above the average, let’s talk about it now. Hello friend of the Hangover Formula 1, welcome to another video I’m Matheus Pucci and we had another great Lewis exhibition in Turkey if you didn’t see the general overview of the race, take a look at the video that was released today in the early afternoon and then you come back here or watch this first and then see the overview, the important thing is that you stay on top of everything and also leave your opinion and your liked for youtube understand that you like the channel and also like formula 1 content.