Post 002: Gourry's Sword of Light

So as I keep moving into props I have a second, concurrent project that I am working on, that has more importance than Leon's gun. I am working on Gourry's Sword of Light from the original Slayers series. Here is a screen cap.

So I tackled the blueprint in Illustrator again, though this time I had to have the wife come through and correct some all of it so I could resize the image to the appropriate proportions. Here it is after corrections.

So I picked up my half sheet of 3/4" MDF, fiberglass resin and clamps from my local hardware store and came home to accomplish the first steps of the build.

At my apartment, I have a balcony which is not my preferred work place, but as a bit of pre-work I decided to cut and laminate the MDF to the sizes I need to work on. I'll be working a lot at a good friends place this week while I'm on fall break from school.

So I cut the MDF, mixed the fiberglass resin with the hardener, and clamped it all together. I'll know in about 2 hours if it was successful or not.