Props Wizard Conjures Up Team Fortress 2 Goodness

[Karloff]

Props Wizard Conjures Up Team Fortress 2 Goodness

Now, which class shall I play ... that Ambassador's looking pretty good right about now!

Nathan Longest is a prop-making god. Of that there can be no question, and as evidence I submit to you the following exceptionally sweet Team Fortress 2 items. There's something for almost everyone, from the Sniper's rifle to the treacherous Spy's Ambassador. Nor does he stop with just a few pictures; if you want to peek behind the scenes and see how the magic comes together, his blog details exactly how he made that Scattergun look so beautiful.

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He first got the Team Fortress 2 bug from a cosplay-happy friend, who wanted the perfect Sniper outfit. That outfit later had its debut at Anime Expo L.A. 2012; there's a gallery of shots says Longest [http://imgur.com/a/tD99q], "and I won't be satisfied until I can arm every class from this game!"

More power to him. Incidentally, if you were wondering whether such items are available for purchase, the answer is a definite nearly as expensive as the original [http://www.etsy.com/shop/HVDprops].

Source: HVD Props [http://hvdprops.blogspot.com/]


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[PunkRex]

Does he do hats? HIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

 

[VanQ]

$146 for the Ambassador. Holy shit, I want it so bad but would I even be able to get it into the country? I think Australia confiscates any gun shaped items at customs, even if they're fake. I don't want to spend that money unless I knew for certain I could proudly display it in my home. It really is a gorgeous revolver.

 

[subtlefuge]

The Ambassador and Scattergun look awesome, but that Bonesaw just doesn't cut it.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I like Volpin Props' Force-a-Nature [http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/2010/04/tf2-force-nature.html] better than this scattergun. It actually looks cartoony like the real thing. This guy puts too much weathering on his props; they look more like something from a "gritty, realistic" game.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

That sniper rifle will be mine someday.

 

[5mj7R7yf4Dwr3gdZyyu9PeGNwYjlNrjzuh3iTXQG]

Wow. Just...WOW

238U[footnote]We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there--there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity--like yours--the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you--you so remote from the night of first ages--could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. --Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad[/footnote]

 

[Evil Smurf]

I need that Scattergun.

 

[Bonemeal]

Holy crap. Those are incredible likenesses. Very cool!