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Fai's Staff Tutorial
Published: 2011-04-09 09:07:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 50699; Favourites: 1423; Downloads: 397
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Woo, here's the tutorial!Again, there are other ways to make this, these are just my methods!
In total this was a solid week's work, but spread out over several months around other things I had to do. Apart from the plastics, none of these materials or the tools used are hard to come by or expensive, and the casting plastic was not as horrible as expected.
Materials used:
- 8mm thick sheet of a light type of wood
- thin nylon thread
- wood glue
- thin, sturdy cardboard
- fun foam
- multi pupose glue
- wall filler (bought as paste in tube, but can also be bought as a powder, which lets you control its thickness for a smoother finish - will be using this for most layers)
- water clear polyester casting resin + dye
- tin foil
- PVA glue
- long wooden dowel, 20mm diameter (through preferably same width as the staff head)
- primer paint
- brass spray paint
- clear spray paint
- 1mm clear HIPS plastic sheet
- super glue
- transparent blue glass paint
The link to the pattern: [link]
It is not perfect, and needs to be adjusted while you work; the lower part where it connects to the staff is not entirely symmetrical.
Fai D. Flowright and his staff are from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle by Clamp.
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Normally I would agree, except with the softest kind, as this is. I think it's mostly pine; all the layers are soft enough that they don't chip much. In this case I didn't need to do much sanding anyway, it was pretty easy to saw the shape right in one go! But yeah, my first though was not polite when I saw that it was more or less my only option at the shop!
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Wow, you're staff came out looking really gorgeous. This is a beautiful cosplay, you pulled it off perfectly~
If you have time would you mind making a tutorial for the resin? I would love to try your technique to make Materia for a Final Fantasy VII cosplay.
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Thank you! 
There's not much point in making a tutorial for the resin, because the materials usually come with instructions and there are plenty tutorials on the internet.
Don't know how well it would work for materia though! It's easy to cast half-round ones like these gems, but making completely round ones would be very difficult I think (but I know little 
I've been thinking about how to make materia for a future costume for a while now too.
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very nice tutorial love it alot i might use this in one of my photos im doing when i get so money
but thank you so much loved it alot
and i will give you credit for it to
really nice job on this really wonderful and it came out really good
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Hey... een Nederlandse krant! Great tutorial by the way, really clear. Not really helpful for me at the moment, but perhaps in the future.
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Jaja, half gemaakt in Nederland, half in Engeland
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Wow, that's amazing. I always loved the design of Fai's staff, and I didn't think I'd ever see anyone get it right in real life. Kudos!
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This will be super-helpful for some friends in the future, thanks for sharing. <3
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You're welcome, and good luck to your friends!
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Woooooow! This is amazing! I have no idea when/where I would need this or would have access to the materials for it, but this is awesome nonetheless, and very informative.
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This is incredible! 
wow
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No problem! x]
Is it long to do a staff like that? 0:
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It took me about two weeks, all the loose days added together.
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Woah! Anyway, patience is one of the materials needed I see!
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A little.
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Making the whole thing even more impressive! 0:
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Wow I love the "floating" jewel in the middle. The only thing I think that could have made it better would be if that jewel was also made out of resin but I understand that it would be pretty difficult to find a mold for it.
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Thanks! 
I did think of casting one from resin, but that would have involved making a two-part mould myself (which would be tricky!) more resin, which is expensive, and more trouble attaching it to the wires to make it float, so I went for the cheaper, easier, but bit less pretty method. Maybe next time, if I make another and have more time/money.
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haha, that looks pretty awesome.
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awesome!
is that pic of you at the top in Birmingham at the hilton? (so sad that I recognize furniture 
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would I be able to buy this from you? :3 or would you be able to make a new one?
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I'm thinking of maybe selling it, but only for pick-up at London MCM Expo. Shipping it would be difficult and very expensive because it is quite large. :\
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awwww, I live in Alberta... >.< and I REALLY want it ): I could pay for the shipping too
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This is an incredible tutorial! Can't tell you how glad I am to see it up here, the final prop is amazing. Just out of curiosity, do you know exactly what brand of resin you got? And what dye? Sorry for pestering, but I've been having a lot of difficulty with some of the resin/dye brands I've bought recently.
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Thank you!
The resin I used is East Coast Fibreglass Supplies Water Clear Polyseter Casting Resin, and the dye is transparent blue dye from the same company. If you live in the UK they deliver very quickly, but I don't know beyond that. This is the first time I've used polyester resin, so don't really have any more advice!
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No problem at all! Looks like it might be difficult for me to get it sent into the US from the UK but I've found a good alternative, and I think though the site I found a similar dye. For your first try at it you did a wonderful job!
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my reaction to this awesome tutorial was you would think i'm kidding but i'm not XD
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Haha!
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Really amazing, wow o_O
I love the tutorial, it just shows a lot of different interesting things to know for weapon making!
Great work!
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