Dread Eldritch Armory

Just my various crafting bits and baubles ^^

 First up (of which I posted several before) concept sketches for future weapons.

[yes, I name them. No judging]

The Deep Ones Sword

The Monster Shield

Witchmonster (left) and Zehnengel (right)

The Horseslayer's Sword (left) and [currently unnamed] (right)

New Yorker Scrap Sword (left) and [currently unnamed] (right)

The New Yorker Scrap Sword is being commissioned for a LARP friend.

My very first plasti-dip: the Repo Man scalpel!!!!!

Modified of course. I couldn't make the saw as tiny as in the movie, and the notches made the scalpel blade weak D:

But this is Romulus' weapon. The orange band is not a part of the weapon xD It's the weapon tag for after being passed through the LARP logistics as a safe and combat ready weapon.

Bone and Gore Sword

A meelee large for Dystopia Rising. I'm leaning more towards selling it than keeping it.

$100 or best offer is what it will be going for when I do get around to parting with it.

New Yorker Scrapmetal Sword!

Pre-plasti dip/painted. Aint it purdy?

And now for some Romulus details!

The medical pouch!

Turned out to be too long (left), so it was shortened later. (right) A picture of the syringe holder inside the pouch. Fits three small and three medium syringes.

Cut in half and resewn. Literally. Going to fix the flap though. It's very uneven.

Inside Romulus' pouch, we have four pill bottles (to be genrefied soon. I just got the three green ones!). Then there are the syringes. A tourniquet (a belt). And finally, Rommie's medical book.

Front and back. R for Romulus.

I am not finished filling in all the pages, but all pages have been properly distressed with coffee staining and mixing highly diluted brown acrylics. Finally, the pages were cooked over the stove and the edges were singed.

The pages have real live paramedic and EMT procedures in them from my own procedures manual from EMT school. Some procedures come with drawings. 

Romulus' second pouch for her personals.

Inside, we have a bottle (also needs genre-fying) which I usually put little snacks in like granola or small bief jerky pieces. Then there is Romulus' book, The Illiad, which she reads for fun when not studying amputations. Finally, she usually has a little something else to eat wrapped up in a paper bag. Like that random chocolate ball she got from Palo and then forgot about for the past 15 days x_x *throws in trash*

Sadly, the detail is not shown in the lighting, but the book's pages are very thin and yellow. I got it at a thrift store about two years ago, and thought "Hey! I should use this for a LARP character or something!" And it finally came in handy ^^

That's all for now. I will have pictures of the finished New Yorker Scrapmetal Sword up later.

Don't F**K With ROMULUS!!!!!

My Dystopia Rising character!

I was squinting and making weird faces because the cold wind and snow were eating my face off. But the whole point was really to show off the costume anyway. An actual photo shoot with poses and mebbe some blood (xD) will be taking place this week. So coolness will happen!

(ermg, the blurr >.>)

Regular costume for spring, summer, fall is just the shirts, armor, and this hooded half cape. There are also black combat boots (not wearing because snow)

The armor back!

No capes!

Winter gear! Brown leather trench coat. A fingerless glove on the left hand and a leather one on the right with buckles ^^ I am missing the left leather with buckles glove ;-; In winter I DO wear the snow boots as part of the costume because I do not want frost bitten toes. 

I wear the armor over the coat so that I can access my bags and you can see the armor.

Meanwhile, this is Romulus. She is a Sawbones (combat medic). She was found at age 7-8 being raised by wild dogs. A hermit took her in. Raised her. Taught her to read and write and things. But now she is off on her own, fighting Zed and trying to find a place where she belongs.

She is actually very proud of her roots and does not really consider herself human. So calling her a dog or references to dogs, she actually likes. Not that she can't detect malice, but if you call her dog or puppy as a nickname of sorts, she's totally fine with it.
And yes, she loves that sign. That sign is her life xD


There will be a photo shoot in the very near future and possibly costume detail photos. As time goes by, the costume will evolve, requiring more photos of course. But for now, this is Romulus.

Plans

Romulus is going to have metal spines coming from her head and this is the inspiration.

Now HOW to pull this off is the question. I have some ideas, but nothing solid so far. It will be a learning process for sure

Gonna get silver contacts too.

LIST OF WEAPONS TO MAKE

Pineapple knucks

Frying pan knucks

Tire iron axe from Fallout 4

Horror Sword and Shield - possibly for Deeplight (a horror, fantasy, steampunk(?) LARP in Chicago

Horse slayer sword from that one scene I wrote that maybe(not) will be in a book someday

So much crafting to do. :3