I managed to get these both painted and weathered. Both are coming along nicely and will be ready for the Halloween party. I'm pretty sure that I'll need to whomp some kids with the hammer before that.
I've put a piece of real oak laminate that I had in the shop around a piece of 2.5" pvc pipe. I tried a smaller pipe that gripped better but it was too out of scale with the hammer head. I'll be putting some faux metal straps around the body of the head, and some metal caps and bands on teh handle.
I bought some leather straps and I was going to wrap the handle, but this wood grain looks so good on its own I might leave it. Notice the little spikes on the top. Maybe they need to be bigger, and I probably need a pair on the bottom too.
I got this all screwed together and I got the wonky top adjusted and attached. Then I hit the whole thing briefly with the orbital sander to clean up the seams. I put some filler into the screw holes and dings. Then I primed it with some latex primer I had laying around. Then a coat of gray, and two coats of weathering--watered down black acrylic and watered down burnt umber. But I don't love the finished look. It may need to be a different base color like a sandy desert tan, and then weathering over that.
I have been toying with the idea of etching some heiroglyphics on two sides in a column and then cutting them out. Then I could put a light inside to illuminate them from inside out. That would look cool, but I don't know if I"ll have time to do it. Otherwise, I think Alex and Candace may just paint some glyphs onto it.
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