Indiana Jones: Sir Richard's Shield

I've been working on a replica of Sir Richards Shield from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade off and on now for about a year and a half.

I think it's finally far enough along to show some progress.



I started by taking a ton of hi-res screen caps and then comparing them to my original files from my laser engraved grail tablet. My hope was, that I would be able to go straight into using them as the basis for the shield. Wrong!! The layout of the text was different enough to warrant a whole new engraving.

I also used the screencaps to determine what size the shield should be:



I ended up with a shield that is about 21" X 44".

Once I had the engraving molded and cast, I cnc'ed two 3/16" thick pieces of plywood, which I then put into a jig to add the correct curve and glued together. Once the glue dryed, the curve remains permanently in the piece. I then used contact adhesive to glue the resin casts to the wood shield.





Once I had the engravings in place, I used chip board of the same thickness to build up the remaining areas of the shield and put in the cross members.

At this point, I became stumped on the rivets and used several different found items such as upholstery tacks, small furniture sliders, etc. All to no avail. None of them looked right. I knew for the smaller rivets on the cross members, that I wanted to laser cut styrene, but nothing for the larger rivets. But then one day, a solution presented itself:



Yes!! Googly Eyes from the craft store. Almost the perfect diameter and curvature that I wanted.

And the laser cut styrene "rivets".






And a more direct comparison between the screen seen and my tablet:



Now I just have to figure out a good paint job and call this one done!

Thanks for looking.

Another amazing job. Great find on the googly eyes they "look" spot on

Wow, great job so far. Did you take the black part out of the eyes, or are they still rattling around in there?

Ruddigger said:

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Wow, great job so far. Did you take the black part out of the eyes, or are they still rattling around in there?

Thanks.

Still in there, kinda sounds like a rain stick.

Any plans to offer the tablet castings for shields?

This is amazing

Arlington Beech said:

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Any plans to offer the tablet castings for shields?

Or maybe just a highres clear, straight in look at the text?

In case you are interested:

http://www.therpf.com/f13/indiana-jo...5/#post1858213

is the shield flat or bent ?

It's curved about 1-1/2" at the crown.

That is really looking beautiful!

Thanks. Here's some pics of the finish I've been working on.




Still some work to do, but it's getting there.

This is amazing work my friend! VERY impressed!

Great work. Congratulations. Your shield looks realy awsome
The WIP are looking very familiar to me (Stefan do you remember ? )

One question:
As you stated your shield is going to be bent..... All the WIP pics above showing a plain one.
I'am curious, will you bent the playwood after everything is finished? If yes how the plywood is going to be kept in shape? Think thats is interesting for everyone who my attemp their own version

Thanks for your feedback in advance

Again.... great job

PS any plans how to do the back?

It's just the angle of the pics. The shield already has the curve in the plywood.

Boy that finish is coming alone beautifully Nice to see some different Indy props out there!

Looks excellent!

the googly eyes are a great idea! they look perfect!

Googly Eyes for the win!