Topic: Making Castlevania Weapons and Sub-Weapons

[Julius]

Alright! So my chain whip replica is finally finished! Took much longer than I anticipated but I kept adding more details to it to make it unique. It's more of an homage to the series and less of what an actual Belmont would wield. Although who knows, maybe they would put designs like this on the hilt.



What you're looking at is a dowel rod that I bought at Lowes and painted. Mixed black and grey together to give a sort of worn metallic feel to the hilt. It's solid and feels good to grip oddly enough. The Castlevania logo you see there was hand painted by my fiance. Took her about 2 hours to get it to where she wanted. I added the red gemstone to try and match the necklace you can buy. I also added some gemstones to the top of the hilt for a bit of added flavor. Again, presentation over functionality but I actually tossed the chain around a bit and it holds up pretty well!




The chain is about 5 and a half feet long that was also bought at Lowes. I got some weird looks at to why I had a dowel rod in one hand and a 5 foot chain in the other.  So anyway! There's my version of the Vampire Killer. What do you guys think?

[uzo]

That logo was beautifully painted. Well done all around.

[X]

Only five and a half feet? I wouldv'e pimped it up to seven or eight. It's all about the range!!! 

-X

[Julius]

I was actually tempted to go for around 7 feet but when I measured it out in the store it just looked too long. According to the Castlevania wiki the VK is *supposely* the height of a man or around that. I measured it by holding the chain straight out and seeing how much it took to rest a little on the floor. Kind of like if you brandish the whip and let it drop the tip usually hits the ground or clips through it slightly.

Now if I was going for Combat Cross length...I'm pretty sure I would have had to get well over 15 feet with how that thing stretches. 

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

That thing is weird... it's ridiculously long, like Batman's BatHook, but in battle, it only goes about as far as the real VK goes, haha.
Your picture looks awesome.  Someday I'm going to do the multi-link version of one, just to see what it would end up like.