Thanks Dauntless
. Yeah he's a character, and he totally does stink eye me all the time lol.
Yeah, I know what you mean about the too clean look, but no worries I'm def gonna make sure to preserve the aesthetic. I wanna clean the actuall lines of engraving themselves just so they look a little more crisp/ sharper- they're just a little bit too soft atm- I need them bit more harsh to go along with jaggedness, scewed angles etc. - but I'm sure the piece will be right at home with everything else
. There's actually already few little dings, scratches and scrapes on that brass pointy piece lol.
Going to leave some dings/ blemishes etc., weather the edges of the brass pieces in spots to blend it in, and give character consistent with rest of saber, but what might surprise everyone is that I'm actually going to be giving a lot of the brass inner shroud some pretty serious bling! I know sounds ridiculous, but you'll have to keep the faith lmao
. It's hard to explain but it's gonna look sweet- will look SO wrong in the exact right way if you can follow me somehow. The lines, angles, and overall look will be unsettling, unnatural even, like there's something just slightly off or screwed. There will be an ancient evil air about it, corroded, decaying, cracked and weatherd, sinister all the way, but yet at the same time it will be proud/ arrogant, ostentatious, like showy / gaudy(gawdy?). There will be flashy, patchy polished bling' n gold with blackened lines engraved into it, all set over corroded rusty blackened grip! Pompous and royal but evil and dead. Totally crooked/ dirty.
Hence the name: usurper- for anyone who wasn't lame enough to major in English lit and political science lol, usurp means to overthrow the rightful monarch and an underhanded, dishonourable, cowardly etc. way of doing so is kind of implicit. Like a usurper would have been the lowest of lows, the dirtiest of dirt squirrels, the most dispicable and fowl of scumbags next to maybe the guy that killed Jesus lol.
... basicslly the ideal/ epidome of sith lol.
Wow, I'm such a newb at forums lol... This is totally the kind of thing that would have been great to put in the first post instead of the glancing mention I gave to concept there lol. Oh well, live and learn lol.
O ya, about the 7 lmao! You know that actually concerned me when I was practicing- I wanted to do block lettering so could accentuate the aurebesh r (which is kinda unavoidably identical to 7 in stick form). But it'll probably be an awfully long time before my skill is at that level where could pull it off. It's cool though, i actually really like it the way looks in that seam
. And I've noticed that other people doing engraving here have mostly shy'd away from block lettering too- even ppl who've taken their sabers in to pro's for the engraving- like luminousbeing's Healer (which looks aweome), they seemed to stay away from the block lettering, so I'm feeling good about that call... For now lol.
I'd better go, Arlo's giving me the stink eye again lol
Any minute now he'll be going all dark side!
Keep u posted, MTFBWY.
