Mum's wood showcase

I decided to pick up this vintage wooden showcase from my mum’s home and display my Xena’s collection differently. Xena is a vintage series, why not a vintage furniture to display it.

 

 

Here there is my set used hero resin chakram, Xena's hero boot, Xena's boot dagger, Xena's Creation whip, Xena's screen used swords (up, Xena's hero plated sword, down, Xena's hero resin sword signed by Lucy) and leather scabbard, Xena's hero metal Yin Yang chakram, Gabrielle's hero plated sai and Gabrielle's stunt foam sais. 

Here there is Callisto's metal Creation sword, Callisto's metal dagger from Todd's Costumes, Athena's stunt sword, Athena's style dagger, Gabrielle's Helicon Amazon Queen sword signed by Renée, Prometheus's metal hero sword, Hord Axe, Xena's Valkyrie stunt helmet, Livia's stunt sword and  Xena's Creation breast dagger.

Mix of props: Xena's sacred katana, Gabrielle's Higuchi Millitia sword, Morloch's sword, Skull style sword, Amazon swords and scabbard, some daggers and Hercules's gauntlets in the back.

Mix of props: Amazon turtle shield, Cleopatra's sword, Caesar's stunt sword, Brunhilda's sword, Indrajit's sword,Valkyrie's sword, Roman style dagger and other daggers.

One side of the showcase and mannequins.

Caesar's screen-used stunt sword

The most recent addition to my collection is the Caesar’s screen-used stunt sword used by Karl Urban as Caesar during the series . The sword is resin with a metal rod inside. Another eBay pick up from the seller: Orbital-surplus: 

"This rubber and plastic sword was identified by an employee of Global Effects, whos earlier job in New Zealand, had been fabrication of many of metal & rubber weapons for the series. This was acquired by Global in a prop trade in the early 2000's, not long after the series ended. The sword was deemed to delicate for rental service, thus being retired." This was written in the listing from eBay.

The hilt is made of solid resin, it is painted in golden tones with an aged effect. The handle is decorated with patterned satin ribbons to differentiate from the rest of Roman swords.

The blade is made of soft foam to prevent the actors get in injured during the the fight scenes of the series. Many of the foam swords were deteriorated over the time due to the kind of soft material that it is, but if you keep it safe and stored properly the sword could keep the same condition as when the series ended.

There were multiples appearances of this sword in season 3 episodes “The Deliverer”, “When in Rome” and in season 4 episode “A good day”. 

This last addition to my collection completed my Caesar screen used costume, hopefully I will display all together soon.

Photos for reference:

Brutus's set used Costume

 “Ave, Brutus. You know, you’re in a queen’s bedchamber.” Xena.

Here is the Brutus costume worn by David Franklin in the episode “When Fates Collide” from season 6. Probably the Brutus costume version more accurate of all seen on screen.

In this case, it is a full complete wardrobe used by the actor, no stunt pieces. Mostly all the costumes were sold separately in the Turner’s auction, the main wardrobes came to one place, the boots, cuffs, jewelry, swords to other places, so it is an achievement to have the full costume with every single piece together. 

 

  

The costume includes about 13 pieces: the red shirt, undershorts (not visible), pants (not visible), skirt, leather boots, knee pads, belt, metal hammered armour, red velvet cape, neck scarf, metal cuffs, leather scabbard and set used double lion head sword that I already got.

  

I really fall in love with the gold/silver metal cuffs, there are really heavy and detailed. I have made a bit of research and these pair of metal cuffs were used by Octavius in season 5 and also appeared in “The god you know” from season 6 worn by the Roman captain at the beginning.

Maybe, the red velvet cape is familiar to you, they used the same velvet fabric of the Gabrielle hero season 6 costume, a very special shimmering velvet which has a different shade depending in the light.

Photos and screen captures:

Screenworn Julius Caesar Photoshoot

Screen worn Julius Caesar costume worn by Karl Urban himself in the episode “When fates collide” from season 6, this was the last appearance of this character in the series.

During the show, the guest stars and important characters changed his costumes to a more detailed and elaborate through the seasons. The earlier costume worn by Karl Urban in the episode "Destiny" from season 2, was a resin golden armour with a some leather pieces attached, a similar shirt than the one of this outfit behind the armour, a lion leather belt with resin details, pants, resin knee guards and boots.

 This costume includes the awesome copper lion head armour with the leather belt attached, leather skirt, garnet fabric skirt, garnet fabric pants, garnet shirt, leather sandals, leather scabbard, the velvet cape is screenused worn by Odin played by Alexander Petersons (same purple velvet material like the cape used by Caesar in this episode) and the screenused copper gauntlets were used in the series but not from this character (the garnet leather and copper matches the rest of the wardrobe). 

General view without the cape.

Main characters mannequins

Quick update! I have recently acquired a new woman and man mannequin to display properly my main characters costumes: Gabrielle hero season 6 costume, Xena hero leathers and armour and Julius Caesar hero costume worn in the episode "When Fates Collide" from season 6. Behind the mannequins you can see the Creation Entertainment sais and Yin Yang chakram. And also the Xena metal sword replica in the leather scabbard replica. Hope you like it!

Xena Display

Xena, Caesar and Gabrielle costumes display.

Caesar and Gabrielle close-ups.

Xena, Caesar and Gabrielle costumes.

Some props displayed on the shadow box behind Caesar.