Water Sprinkler Of Nem Ankh

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Brief update!

Mark I is done in all it's 3rd grade quality glory, but it IS a proof of concept at least. Pics below:



Looks not too bad in dark silhouette!



Looks much crappier now, yes? Haha!



Aluminum Foil chain is the sex~



I obviously could have cut out more layers and thickened it up and painted it and shit but the Mark I wasn't for "show" to begin with. How it looks size-wise next to a body:



Part of me feels like it's a tad too big, but when you look at it relative to the EQ model:



...you can see from tip to tip is actually longer the length of a human torso from hip to neck so I think I did okay with scale. Also in game it looks like the grip is slightly skinnier than I have made it. The Mark II won't be as thick due to my plan to use a metal rod for reinforcement.

Here are the plans I used to make the Mark I :



...and the materials I've gathered together to start on the Mark II below!



I have quite a few issues to iron out, but I think for now the important part is simply cutting out the shapes on the wood proper before the next update. The chisels I feel are going to be the best bet for this task... albeit a slow process but that's okay... this is a labor of love. I'm unsure what to use for the handle grip. Real leather, faux leather, or suede strips? Where to buy it too? Also how to affix it. The metal rod is going to reinforce the handle but I'm completely unsure if I want to hollow out the larger dowel in "sections" and glue them together on the outside of the metal rod, or just go with the metal rod as is and wrap the handle with a thick material to bulk it up to the right size and THEN wrap that layer in the real/faux/suede leather.

The hardest bit by FAR in this build is going to be the spiked ball. Still haven't planned what the fuck I'm going to do with that for sure... the ball in the picture is just a $3 styrofoam-y ball from the craft place at Wal-Mart and needless to say won't be used for the final part but I wanted "something" there in the meantime to affix for looks. What I'm thinking is just using wood. Get a 3-4 inch ball and cut some holes in it and carve out about 20 or so triangle-y spikes to attach to the ball via small dowels and glue but damn I'd really love a real aluminum spiked ball. The chain is real btw.

ALSO, Mr. Cthulhu got back with me! He took a look at pics of the epic and my sketch and estimated a final cost to fashion the Mark III made out of full metal at (drumroll please)

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$3,000 haha. Less than what I assessed it to be, but still too rich for my blood at the moment! I may be perfectly happy with the Mark II if she turns out well. It's still anybody's guess at this point to be honest but I'm definitely excited to keep working on this

Phanton said:

Can't wait to see the finished product.

As for the spikes on the flail, it reminded me of this video for crafting a Fortnite helmet that has spikes on it. Maybe you can adapt it to your project, though if you want them to be pyramid shaped like the pixelated epic then I guess you'd have to adapt the template to be square. The spikes begin around 6:30:

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Thanks for the tip! They don't have to be pyramid shaped at all; wouldn't be *that* picky about that particular aspect of it.

I noticed he said he used EVA floor mat foam for the spikes. Never heard of it and obv never worked with it. I'll defo remember that for a possibility tho!

I'm now starting to contemplate using high quality clay to fashion the spiked ball. As I said earlier I'm not looking to bash shit with this... it just has to be attractive and display worthy and able to be picked up. I DO feel wood would be the best option short of paying a significant chunk out of pocket to commission a local to fashion me one out of aluminum or another relatively lightweight metal. A true iron ball I think would crack the top piece in half and probably make the entire thing unwieldy to hold comfortably anyway. Iron is out.

As far as updates on the actual crafting, I'm slowly and very very methodically starting to chisel out the wood. I did a test chisel and it worked out good but the wood split a bit faster than I'd have liked and it left a somewhat un-uniformed edge which, with my tools would take forever to plane down attractively. The reason for the quick split was using too much force on a hard surface below it which of course hastened the process but left the result a bit... wanting.

Labor of love boys... slow and steady~

Tholan said:

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I was bored and made this, you should print it in 3D and sand it then paint it. If you need the file in .STL for printing just ask. Not sure if it's 100% accurate though, i made a cube 7" wide then cut out to create that solid, and then added the points. max width is 4.5inch

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This is absolutely beautiful, thank you!

Almost needless to say, I am lacking a 3D printer and kinda ignorant about the ins and outs. All I know is that they print very slowly, are made with a resin / plastic type of material, they "print" objects layer by layer and can vary in quality based on the printer.

Would I have to shop around locally to find this service or are there places on the interbutts that you just email them the file and they print and mail you the product?

Thank you Tholan, that's so sweet of you to make that and I will definitely accept the file in question. Can it just be attached here or would you need my email?

Brad2770 said:

He would need your email and the size of your Nem Ankh while flacid.

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Just found Slyminxy's main account~

What's funny is that the idle animation does raise up in the chain like a boner with pre-luclin HIE females (unsure if every race had this happen, but that's what I played).

Xadion said:

4.5 is kinda small- i would think 6 - spike to spike would be the size... 6"x6" cube...

I will see if I can get it printed, but the printer I have access to is not really the best, it works... and the 3d programs etc, auto hollow the middle etc so its not solid and a huge waste of plastic.

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No, this is actually fine Xadion. The ball would be about 4 inches in diameter sans the spikes by my graph... unless he's saying 4.5 inches in circumference? Then yeah, that's definitely too small.

Don't print it either, unless you're making one to show as an example. I can't ask you to do that for me!

I'm not trying to do any fancy-schmancy shit to replicate the particle effect! If I was going ham and was going to like... cosplay with this or something at a nerdfest comicon, yeah maybe LoL, but it's literally just going to sit on a display either on my wall or on a stand in my condo.

As far as the size, here's a higher-res version of the plan I drew up compared to a high res in-game epic for comparison:



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I'm sorry that the graph-lines don't come through well. I wasn't extremely exacting on the spikes by any means but I believe the general "ball shape" sans the spikes is relatively accurate to a 4-4.5 inch diameter... what do you think?

The shapes I'm working on for the actual handle and such are to the exact specs of my plans by the 1/8 of an inch, so... that can't be altered now.

Brad2770 said:

EQ skins aren’t exactly proportionate, but if you want to go by the size of the characters fist (realistically about 4.5-5.5” across) and compare it to the “ball” portion sans spikes, then you’re looking at probably around 7-8” in diameter.

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I didn't want to expend a TON of aluminium foil to get the ball as big as it should have plan-wise on the Mark I here in the pic, but that diameter on the ball in the pic above is a tad under 3 inches (I just measured it 30 secs ago). The Mark I used the same specs as I'm using for the wood Mark II. 7-8 diameter would be yuuuge! (I'm happy with the size of the Mark I's handle, hilt, head relative to my body size btw). The spikes add a decent amount of added girth too, especially if I'm going with the excellent 3D model Tholan created. I truly believe a 4.5 inch diameter sans the spikes is a good size. With the spikes, it would then come closer to the 7 inches you're thinking.

Very very quick shoop: 1st pic is 6 inch diameter (blown up to 200%). 2nd pic is roughly the 4.5 inches I'm entertaining (150% sized).