Hey guys, had some time last night to work on this tutorial. I have not finished painting it yet but you can get an idea. Below are about a third of the steps and pics but wanted to give you an idea so you did not think that I was making it up and just saying I bought this. Wanted to prove it was possible. Let me know if you need one of these. I could maybe put one together for you if you have a sword in mind. Might need you to mail the sword to me because they are custom made to the specific sword. Enjoy!
I have also make knife and gun holsters like this. I did make a gun holster once by wrapping paper from a post it around the gun. I then dipped it in rubber dip. When it dried it was an awesome rubberized looking holster. Love that stuff. There are some great tutorials out there for making ripped masks that use the stuff.
I will start working on a tutorial for this. It was a tone of fun to put togther. It was really funny because that one that is pictured was my first attemt to do it. I then failed several times after that. You can use electrical tape as well, but for a leather look I like the texture of painters tape. After it was painted I put a clear coat on it to seal because the whole point of painters tape is that paint don't stick.
DUDE! if you can should us a step by step in how PAINTERS TAPE can make an awesome sheath like that....oh please do! I think others here would benefit from it if you do! When you have something that looks so professionally done, it's hard to think THAT came from painters tape! That's talent my friend! Sheer TALENT!
Here is a sheath that I made for a custom Hawkman fig. I started with blue painters tape. Ended up adding strips of blue tape wrapped around the sword, and then paint. I make custom swords out of letter openers and they work really well.
Thanks Patraw! Those are definitely some creative ideas to get my mind rolling! Ill try some of those out and see what I can come up with. Thanks again for your help! Have a good one!
Any type of thin material should work for a sheath; I use newsprint, but then, I use newsprint for everything.
I believe I recall some people saying that they used tape. I'd say wrap the tape around the blade to form the sheath, obviously sticky side out so that the blade doesn't' stick to the interior, and then put a second layer of tape over that first one, sticky side down, so you have a finished, non-sticky surface to detail/paint.
Another approach you could take is to cut out too sheath shapes, and then glue the edges together. Or you could combine that technique with the first one, by wrapping the two sheath halves together with tape--you wouldn't have to worry about interior stickiness then, because the two sheath halves would be in contact with the sword instead of the tape.
There are doubtlessly other methods, but those are the only two that come to mind at the moment.
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do you coat the outside in anything but paint to make it rigid? I bet giving it a coat of white glue or modge podge would work well
I believe I recall some people saying that they used tape. I'd say wrap the tape around the blade to form the sheath, obviously sticky side out so that the blade doesn't' stick to the interior, and then put a second layer of tape over that first one, sticky side down, so you have a finished, non-sticky surface to detail/paint.
Another approach you could take is to cut out too sheath shapes, and then glue the edges together. Or you could combine that technique with the first one, by wrapping the two sheath halves together with tape--you wouldn't have to worry about interior stickiness then, because the two sheath halves would be in contact with the sword instead of the tape.
There are doubtlessly other methods, but those are the only two that come to mind at the moment.