Doomhammer
| In my free time during the summer of 2018 (when the temperature was too hot in my garage), I started reading the World of Warcraft novels. Many of the early novels deal with Orgrim Doomhammer and the beginning of the Horde. After reading the name Doomhammer countless times, I started to think about how cool it would be to make a replica of his famous weapon… the Doomhammer. I decided to model this prop after the version used by Enhancement Shamans in Legion. It includes the Frost Wolf Clan logo added when Thrall took possession of Doomhammer. |
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| The head of Doomhammer started with some simple shapes. There’s a hole through two panels where a PVC pipe will slide through to attach the hammer’s head to the handle. | ||
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| This prop was the first time I was able to use the foam dowels available from tntcosplay.com. I cut discs out of the rod and rounded the edges to make the rivets. | ||
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| I cut out wolf shaped 6mm foam pieces and used a rotary tool to round the edges and add the details. | ||
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| For the top of the hammer, I glued together 4 foam discs. The bottom three had holes to cover the PVC pipe cap that prevents the PVC pipe from sliding through the hammer head. I then used a rotary tool to shape the disc stack into a sphere. | ||
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| A strip of spiked details were wrapped around the base of the sphere. | ||
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| I used a similar method of gluing foam discs together to form the bottom of the hammer head. This part hides the PVC connector that attaches the head to the handle. | ||
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| The handle started out with a simple PVC pipe. Layers of foam are added to give it details. The bottom tapers to a thick pommel at the bottom. I used foam wedges to increase the diameter the closer to the bottom of the hammer. This is then covered in a think layer of 2mm foam. | ||
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| More details were added including a 2mm strip of foam wrapped around the shaft to look like a leather grip. | ||
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| The whole hammer was painted and some weathering was added. In the future I may swap out the foam ring around the top of the grip with fake fur to look more accurate. | ||
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