Game of Thrones Fan 3D Prints His Very Own Replica of Oberyn Martell’s Blade.pdf

Game of Thrones Fan 3D Prints His VeryOwn Replica of Oberyn Martell’s Blade

by Whitney Hipolite[1] · February 12, 2015

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image from GoT S3-4 behind the scenes book

If there is a TV series that I have become obsessed with over the last four years,

it would be Game of Thrones[3]. The fantasy drama, which takes its viewers backseveral hundred years in time to a period when royal dynasties still took part inravishing battles, has piqued my interest more than any other show I havewatched in the past decade. In less than 3 months — April 12 to be exact — Season5 of Game of Thrones will premiere on HBO, and my anticipation leading up to itwill continue to build until this fifth season officially kicks off.

Within the 3D printing space, we have seen numerous attempts at recreatingcostumes of characters from movies, video games and TV shows. Thecustomization aspects of the technology allow for unique fabrication of such. Forone avid fan of Game of Thrones, named Nimi Becza, 3D printing gave him a way

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of creating, not a costume from the TV series, but a replica of one of the show’smain characters’ weapons.

For those familiar with Game of Thrones, you are most likely also familiar withOberyn Nymeros Martell. This is the character that Nimi Becza takes a liking tothe most, so much so that he has created an entire costume for himself of Martell.Recently, however, he decided that he wanted to add a weapon to his costume, ablade that Martell himself carries on him.

“I created the blade with the intention to add it as an accessory to my OberynMartell costume,” Becza tells 3DPrint.com. “The most difficult part wasactually finding a reference image for his dagger. The best I could gather is animage collage from the new GoT S3-4 behind the scenes book and a splitsecond screenshot from Oberyn’s first scene in season 4.”

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Becza’s 3D printed replica dagger

Evidently this was enough for Becza, whose replica turned out extraordinarily

accurate. After creating his base model in SolidWorks[5], he then sent the design

to his friends at a company called Print My Props[6], who printed the dagger out in3 separate pieces. Then, in order to create small details on the weapon’s hilt, amix of 2-part epoxy clay was used.


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Becza’s dagger modeled in Solidworks

“Finally I sanded the whole piece down, painted it with chrome (blade) andcharcoal (handle) spray paint,” Becza tells us. “Once everything was sealedand dried, I glued the tiny red teardrop shaped plastic gems on it. My dagger’ssheet follows the same pattern I initially created for my belt. Both are tooledvegetable tanned leather, dyed and antiqued. My necklace for this costume isalso 3D printed actually.”


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Becza and his spear

Becza outsourced the 3D printing to Print My Props, simply because they do agreat job with their printing, and because of the simple fact that he doesn’t yetown a 3D printer himself. That will soon change though, as Becza tells us he has a3D printer on its way, and he intends to use it to 3D print Oberyn’s sword as wellas redo the spear that he had already created.

This is just one more example of how creative some people have become whengiven access to 3D modeling software in combination with 3D printing. Beczacreated a replica of a weapon which many people hadn’t ever saw before.


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