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Last night I made a prototype for the arm piece of Faith's MagRope. No over-engineering this time, just a piece of thick paper and sketching with a pencil. I have zero experience in drawing, but the forms are pretty simple and it went surprisingly well. Going to continue and refine tonight, thinking about the material to use for the real thing. I think the go-to material would be Worbla but Worbla is expensivveeee. I might just try cardboard. PLA might also work
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I thought about Serah's transformable bow Starseeker from Final Fantasy XIII-2 in the morning. While it definitely has some challenge, the transformation itself seems to be simpler than the transformation of Lightning's gunblade.

I quickly measured how big it is. Then I learned that you can easily print complex multi-page patterns with Inkscape. Also my neighbors just threw a huge cardboard box in the trash. So I went like, ok, just a quick look how huge it is.

(3 hours later)

Gunblade (100 cm) for scale.

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Two weapons lying on the floor. Silver fantasy sword on top, made from wood, fully painted. It's Lightning's gunblade from Final Fantasy XIII. Below is a crossbow with some odd shapes, made of cardboard. It's significantly larger than the sword. It's Serah's bow from Final Fantasy XIII-2.

@wildrikku ok I just want to get a notion of how big this thing is really

(3 hours later)

oh no...

Gunblade (100 cm) for scale.

Thanks neighbors for placing your untouched cardboard box below the sign "please cut up your boxes" 😂

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I'm still busy making improvements on the gunblade and so have been TehXeri and CrystAAHHL, coming up with an even more improved transforming gunblade that is now fully automatic both ways, even kinda using the actual hand movements and animation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jaxMRZbuWVk

The accompanying bloopers video gives an idea of how many takes that short must have needed but still, fucking impressive! There's also one with a side-by-side comparison to the game.

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Oh no, I discovered some fan artwork of Lightning with the gunblade in gun form and now I have a new idea how to improve that form.
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Throwback to my second award-winning costume, taken at @gen_con for the 50th run.
Which is weird to think about, really.
I still want to fiddle with this one, improve the fit and quality of a few pieces. But I don't have a single costume I consider 'done' so that will probably never end.

It's got some good memories attached to it, though.
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Took me 6 hours and got much more complicated than planned but you know what? Turns out I really like parametric CAD when I actually get to design something instead of googling 90% of the time and cursing because nothing works as expected. This was fun!

I am still wondering if I should have stuck to only wood for the gunblade - it's not like the wood-only version was bad, I just felt like I could push it further. So I did and made this locking mechanism.

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Four parts displayed in a slicing software for 3D printing. Three of them have the same outer contour. There's holes for screws and a nut and a large pin and triangle shapes.

Milestone reached! This is Lightning's gunblade I have been working on. You can see the rotator (middle, natural MDF brown) that holds the blade (right). It's transformable and hence the rotator needs to be able to move. For months, my main unsolved problem was that it fell apart on its own when held like this. This photo was possible because my newest locking mechanism is able to withstand the absurd leverage the blade puts on the rotator. SUCCESS. HELL YEAH
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Hand holding a handle with a red part on it, which is connected to a brown and a white part, which is connected to a silver part. The parts form a horizontal line and are held in the air. Clamps are attached to the white part, there's hot glue all over it. Clearly a prototype. Background is a workbench full of tools, a coffee mug and a box with cosplay stuff.

I cannot tell you how delighted I am that this exists.

Adam Savage Builds a Real "Chicken Replace-Inator" from Phineas and Ferb!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsSWCl3xW3k

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Small improvements that took way too long: Lightning's gunblade handle now has a foot and the screw and the grip cushion is closer to the form in the artwork.

Screws are actual screws that I shortened. Grip cushion is leather, rest of handle is wood / MDF and the round thing that I call the trigger is PLA with an aluminium insert that will later hold a screw.

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Ergonomic red handle with oddly shaped top and black leather piece on it

Same handle, leather piece now has a slit and there is a screw head on top of the leather piece

Small improvements that took way too long: Lightning's gunblade handle now has a foot and the screw and the grip cushion is closer to the form in the artwork.

Screws are actual screws that I shortened. Grip cushion is leather, rest of handle is wood / MDF and the round thing that I call the trigger is PLA with an aluminium insert that will later hold a screw.

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Finally two of the Andor ISB Data Pads are done. #starwarsandor #3dprinting #starwarsandor #starwars #propmaking

Yes I did! Super challenging and fun. https://www.emilyartist.ca/2025/05/i-made-dead-rooster-prop.html
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Now not to make a mistake glueing those magnets for the bajillionthst time. Magnets are so satisfying to use but kind of a pain to assemble. Also, how on earth did I already use up half a kilo of contact cement?!
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Silver can opener with golden magnets with green markings and white plastic parts with green markings on a workbench

I found a solution for my gunblade locking problem!!! 🥳 The unpainted thingy will be smaller and transparent and go on the blade. The silver part where the screw goes through is what holds the blade, it will be locked in place by the transparent part - except when I loosen the nut enough so the spring extends, as visible on the photo. This finally solves the problem that I need to tighten the screw an ungodly amount to avoid slipping of the blade. (tl;dr: 🥳)
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Two identical silver parts with a narrow head. A screw through the heads connect them. A spring is around the screw. There's also a wooden part that has a hole that's exactly the form of the head of one of the silver parts.

I'm scanning some parts of the gunblade to make construction in Inkscape easier and I think the effect of the scan plus the magic wand background removal is kinda cool.
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A red handle shape with silver and black decoration that has something going on with too much contrast and slightly wrong edges

A pair of Andor ISB Tablets / Pads are in production.

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I've looked back at the most recent photos of me as Lightning and I think I won't fix the issue with the gunblade I discovered yesterday. The gunblade's blade is composed of three big wooden parts glued together and I got the shape of the two identical outer ones (very) wrong. However, it looks amazing. Fixing it would be very difficult, risk breaking the entire thing and not teach me anything. I'll finish it instead and maybe make a v2 somewhen with much more changes. ..1/2
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Thinking way too much whether galvanization is known and used in a universe that uses 18th/19th century-like weapons but also space-like flying vehicles. Anyways, galvanization is pretty old, so I'll explain the blueish blade of Lightning's gunblade with that. If you bend your mind enough it kinda makes sense to make the blade of a different steel than the other parts (or the other parts might not be steel at all). 😂
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Since my motivation for woodworking is back, I'm working on the gunblade details. The long slot has angled edges while the two more round holes have some kind of decoration / protection ring. The entire blade is made of wood and all of these will be wood, too. My sand paper sticks (just sand paper glued to a piece of a broken yard stick) come in very handy here. A router bit might have done the job faster but I don't have a matching one.
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