TOMB RAIDER UNDERWORLD - THOR'S HAMMER

This is a basic tutorial on how to make a replica of Mj?lnir, aka Thor's hammer. It is a rough replica, which means its not 100% accurate but it will do for me: (It is fairly sturdy but dont go hitting people with it  :P)

Reference Pictures: Click to enlarge


Finished product:



Breakdown:
What you'll need:

• Any 1 household grocery box (dimentions: length 5.5" x width 7.5"x depth 2" inches) i chose a modified old elpaso box lol
• 1 Tin foil card board roll
• 2 Toilet paper card board rolls
• Scotch tape
• News paper or phone book pages
• Scissors

1- Ok you need to start by stuffing the box that is the hammer with shredded news papers or phonebook  pages to give it some weight:


2- Cut a plus sign (+) 1.5 inch in diameter, in the middle of the box and lift up the flaps like so:


3- Slide the Tin foil roll inside the box, make sure to  get the flaps out so you can later secure them to it


4- Secure the flaps with tape around the tin foil roll like so:


5- Grab the toilet paper rolls and cut 1/2 inch around it so you end up with this:


6- and then slide the first small pipe up the big pipe, and secure all the little flaps with tape like so:


7- Fold News papers or phonebook pages , just thick enough to go inside the small roll and outsite the bigger roll , like so:

Push down on it till its snug iin there,


8- Now secure it like this:


9- Then do the same thing for the bottom of the handle, with papers securing the smaller roll too:


10- Now for the tip, i just stuffed papers in there and then made a pyramid shape when almost full,  I secured it with strong tape like this:



11- Then made a smaller box , about (5 inches in width, 2 in length and 1/2 inch in depth) to put on top of the hammer like this:


12- So now you have the basic shape for the hammer! and you're almost done!!!


So now comes the messy part:
I bought Silver and black paint, small bottles, costing less than 3 dollars all together

13- Paint it completely black


14- Mix a little silver paint with black and paint it again after its dry


15- Time to paint the handle, bottom and top part must be lighter than the middle, so use your silver/metallic paint


16- Cut a piece of cardboard in this shape


Symmetry is achieved if you fold it in half and cut this shape out


Then paint it Silver


And glue it in place : like so
then finish painting the top part and you're DONE! :)




Now using this image, i extracted patterns to print and glue onto the hammer:

Click to enlarge

Done!