Hello! Thank you for checking out my website! For my first upload, I have the Millennium Rod. It's my third project in regard to YuGiOh's Millennium Items, the first being the Millennium Puzzle, and second being the Millennium Ring. It was made for a friend's birthday and it weighs circa three pounds. The rod is constructed from a plastic Christmas ornament, clay, a wooden dowel (for the hidden dagger), a hollow, plastic tube that was originally a ninja dart blower from the Dollar Store, foam-board and Spackle. It isn't as smooth as I wish it would be, so there's something to work on in the future!
It's construction was definitely a process, but since my slider phone died on me (may it rest in peace) I have no progress photos to show. The top was where I began, I punctured holes in the ornament for the staff and the two prongs. Making the silhouette of the prongs on a sheet of foam-board and inserting them into the two openings on the ornament, the shape was built up with other sheets of foam-board layered on top and then covered with Spackle...three times. I still think it needs another coat. Onward and upward, the ninja dart blower was cut to size, and inserted into the ornament as well, the other half of the blower was fitted with the clay, pointy end-piece and set aside.
I made a cylindrical piece of clay that snugly fit inside the tube so that the two cylinders would fit together and come apart, and also not just fall apart thanks to gravity. The dagger was carved out of the earlier-mentioned wooden dowel and attached to the clay insert.The ring details and eye were made out of air-dry clay, and the whole thing was painted, and then clear-coated. Tah-Dah!
Thanks for reading! I really appreciate it! I like how the Millennium Rod turned out for me, but I know there's always room for improvement, as I've said before, onward and upwards!