coming soon- replica NSW firefighting tool + shoulder plate

[MFP 2020]

You guys continue to amaze. Where were you in 1982 when I first needed you?

[Max Replica]

Here are some new pictures of one of the now fully completed and painted spanners. They're sprayed gunmetal to give them that oxidized steel look, and then drybrushed with steel colored paint on the edges to show wear and across the surface for scratches. The effect is really great and these things really look like a well-used metal tool.

Still waiting on the leather pouch for the spanner/wrench but the first one has been done up so I expect to have it dyed and weathered within the week. I'll post pictures of the completed item in its own thread soon and this "coming soon" thread can be retired because we'll be ready to take orders. Hopefully for the shoulder plate too.

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[framed]

great work!!!
please let me know when your ready molding the shoulderplate.

[Max Replica]

Will do.
Karol and I are just really busy with Halloween coming up next weekend, so it will have to wait until after that. (I know I told you that already, but I'm just posting it here so everybody else knows about the delay.)

[framed]

How was your Halloween?

[Max Replica]

Just an update that we are now using a different type of resin for this spanner. It's white rather than grey and flexes slightly more. Still isn't rubbery or floppy though, just slightly more flexible than the old resin, which may help prevent breakage a bit (though either resin may snap snap if you bend it too far).
These wrenches are pretty thick so they really don't flex hardly at all.
These should never break during normal costume use, but if you bend on purpose or whatever, it will snap. It's a plastic wrench after all...

There was nothing wrong with the grey resin we were using, but we bought a batch of the white stuff for making shoulder plates and decided to use it for the knives as well. It is still a very high quality resin used by Hollywood professionals (Mould Life Inc. Easy Flo 60 for anyone interested)