For the Buster Sword itself there are a bunch of versions that I know of- Crisis Core, Advent Children, FF10, Kingdom Hearts, etc.
#Zack vs cloud buster sword series#
I know Zack has had a couple of different hair looks in the series so I kind of just went with a mix of what seemed to look decent.
The same thing can be said about my hair, and the Buster Sword. The costume itself came out great! I’m not a super picky costume person so I didn’t worry about some of the exact details I just tried to get it pretty darn close. I worked with my lovely assistant and costume maker extraordinaire and built up a pretty respectable looking Zack Fair costume from pieces gathered at the local Value World thrift store. The sword materials list and cost are as follows. Using another scrap piece of aluminum bought from a metal shop I made two aluminum pieces for the handle, the one fit over the handle and butts up against the hilt while the other is capped and fit at the end of the handle with a press fit.įor the handle surface I ended up getting a cheap spool of leather lacing and wrapping the handle top to bottom with it to achieve the look of a leather-wrapped handle.
It’s secured with the middle decorative screws on both sides of the hilt, which are longer and are drilled and tapped into the conduit pipe. The handle inserts into the hilt with a small amount of press to keep it from moving.
#Zack vs cloud buster sword full#
I cut it to the correct length to match the sword at full scale and then inserted it into the aluminum hilt. The handle I ended up using was a scrap piece of electrical conduit tubing from a hardware store. I sanded the block of aluminum with many steps of progressively finer sandpaper to achieve the metal finish that looked best with the sword. I busted out the reciprocating saw and cut out the basic shape of the sword blade. In the end though I settled in on just buying a 2×10 8 foot piece of lumber and whittling it down.Īfter some initial testing for weight I determined that the single piece of lumber approach would yield a sword of the appropriate weight to wield. I first thought of using foam board and an overlay and then moved towards a hollow wooden structure. The sheer size of a full scale Buster Sword meant that I needed to find a way to build it and keep the weight down so that I could actually wield it. But due to time constraints I ended up just putting all the finishing touches on the prototype and rolling with it. I originally set out with the intention of building two swords, the first would be a prototype and the second a more polished version. What’s the fun of having a Buster Sword unless it’s the full-size version? I figured out the scale of the sword and decided if I wanted a relatively accurate Buster Sword I was going to have to build it myself from scratch. I ran across some sites selling replicas for a couple of hundred dollars, but they were not full size. I did a bit of research and looked around places on the web to see what I could find. The real fun of getting to do this costume was getting to attempt to build a Buster Sword. That helped finalize my decision in choosing Zack Fair. Then I quickly remembered that Zack also had awesomely spiky hair. Only one problem, my hair is black and Cloud’s is blonde. I had played FF in the past and thought it would be perfect. With spiky hair as a requirement I quickly turned towards anime and video game characters, from there I further narrowed the list to Final Fantasy and settled in on Cloud Strife.
After a little time spent brainstorming I decided that I wanted to try and find a character that let me use my already messy fauhhawk spikey hair and incorporate it into a costume. This past Halloween I decided that I wanted to go a little more all out on my costume than I had in years past.
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