Welcome to the Sword of Seals Project a page dedicated to documenting the creation of the blade into prop form. Below you will find everything from materials, to blueprints used... as well as some sucesses and multiple failures.

I'm not quite sure what caused the unsatenable urge to create the Sword of Seals, nor why that blade was chosen but alas it was, but after some encouragement from a friend I've decided to log it's creation.

It's the first time I've ever planned to build anything prop related of this caliber... but I think with amazing friends, classmates and articles on the internet I think i'll turn out... alright...
^{Though if it doesn't, you're certainly in for some good laughs and knowledge on what not to do.}

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First, after hoarding unessisary amounts of references and bothering a friend, a blueprint for the front of the blade was crafted up. I wanted to draft the profile of the sword up as well, though there were't enough good references for that (most I could find of it were angled 3/4 shots of the hilt from the Hasha no Tsurugi manga and low-quality screenshots from Super Smash Brothers Melee).

Even if it's existance is generally considered non-canon, for the sake of having something nice to protect the blade, I gathered references and drafted up the sheath. In Melee, multiple trophies and Roy's taunt show him with a scabbard. However, because the SoS model in Melee was rendered incorectly, modifications were made. Alterations in the design were also made just for the fact that -for a scabbard housing the SoS- it looked bland; bordering on ugly.

^{It still looks rather ugly, but nothing that a little spontanious details and art-major powers can't fix.}

The printed blueprint looked beautiful -and surprisingly didn't KO my wallet!- though I begun to have my doubts on it... Why was it so big? Why was the handle so small? Would it be even remotely stable? It looks the part, but can it do the part? A classmate assured that everything would be fine: after all, concept artists had designed this sword to look good in the hands of a fifteen-or-so year-old male -- of course the handle would look tiny and the rest of it would look freaking huge.

With this flicker of hope I began to brainstorm with friends on how to build it. Make one final copy or have a resin copy be the final? Wood or resin? Do I even have the skills to work with wood like that? My grade in 3D art had said no. But was resin -with a iron support rod within it no doubt- light enough to be under the 15lb weight limit at most cons-if it were ever to be taken to one? Was it even stable enough? What would I build the master from? The answer came from a blog, of sorts, I had been following: (Insulating) Foam and resin that would not eat said foam. Sounds like a disater, but it worked out for him really nicely... what could possibly go wrong?

^{...says the girl who manages to burn milk.}

TO BE CONTINUED...!