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Squire
 
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For one of my LARP characters I am using 99% of my Napoleonic Living History kit. As I cannot obviously use my officer's sabre I was wondering whether it would be possible to paint a latex sabre to reproduce the blued finish with gilding present on my real sabre? I also find a blued blade looks so much nicer!
Thanks!
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| Use blue latex for the undercoats- then add the steel over the top.
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okay. but what about the gilding? I can copy the work on my own sabre for it..but how would I transfer/apply it to a latex blade?
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| try making a stamp out of foam- or painting the gilding on with a fine brush-if you underscore it with black ink it'll stand out better.
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okay...so get the area of the blade I want blued done in blue latex and then over done in silver and to paint on the gilding by hand with acrylic paint and then varnish??
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Just leave it to me  Andy is spot on with the method - make sword standard steel colour, then prepare the blued area with an outline, fill in then the guilded effect over the top. For "raised section" make a shape in foam, then work that into the shape you want. I wouldn't go for a stamp as it would be complex and might not come out well. Very difficult to get it carved in reverse if you don't know what you are doing or are unused to the medium you are working in. Time and practice and it's still a complex thing.
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