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| What tools do people use to add the detail into foam weapons/sheilds. Knives/solderingirons/dremle(rotary tool)
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| I used to use a soldering iron, but have been cutting detail pieces from sheets of 1mm foam for over a year now- much more precise and less toxic. You can buy packs of up to A2 size from Hobbycraft.
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so if you were to do wood grain or indented runes on a weapon would you use the thin foam and cut that to make the effects ?
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One way to do it is to work with the main draw back of latex, use the brush marks that can be left in your favour. Use a coarse half knackered brush, drag the brush along with the line of the grain that you want. Experiment. Have a look at real wood, don't try to replicate the false wood effect that comes on some LRP weapons. It doesn't look good.
I used to have a great article for faking wood, but my laptop exploded this weekend and all my links and saved stuff is toast! 
If I find the link again I'll post it.
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AnthonyK (5/27/2008)
so if you were to do wood grain or indented runes on a weapon would you use the thin foam and cut that to make the effects ?No, I used to cut the length into long planes (as if someone had drawn an adze or plane down it), then add the odd horizontal nick and longer vertical splits. This was augmented by the latexing technique which Mat outlines earlier in the thread. Now I have a mould taken from a piece of wood, and I'm about to take a cast from a beautiful piece of copiced ash which I'll use for hafts, staves etc. I use the thin foam to add things like blade etching details.
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| sharp knife, thin foam and latex castings for detial pices for woodgrain i run a glue comb through the latex as it drys
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