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Aug. 20th, 2006 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreamsSo. I play in a LARP. Another character was coming into the city, and it was decided that having him carry a letter of introduction would be a nifty thing.
A seal would also be nice--you know, a proper seal, in sealing wax.
So I went and found this stuff called Sculpy, which is modelling clay that turns hard when you bake it, and spent an evening poking at it with dentist's tools until I got a workable approximation of the coat of arms of the town of Brasov, which features a crown with oak roots coming out. Also picked up some sealing wax. For the letter, I ended up using cream-white cardstock, which has the benefit of being thick enough that you can't hold it up to the light and read the letter through it, but the downside that two thicknesses of it are, well, thick, which left a couple of pale streaks in the seal.
Overall, I'm very happy with it.
A seal would also be nice--you know, a proper seal, in sealing wax.
So I went and found this stuff called Sculpy, which is modelling clay that turns hard when you bake it, and spent an evening poking at it with dentist's tools until I got a workable approximation of the coat of arms of the town of Brasov, which features a crown with oak roots coming out. Also picked up some sealing wax. For the letter, I ended up using cream-white cardstock, which has the benefit of being thick enough that you can't hold it up to the light and read the letter through it, but the downside that two thicknesses of it are, well, thick, which left a couple of pale streaks in the seal.
Overall, I'm very happy with it.
