KramStaar
Sr Member
As promised I have uploaded a tutorial documenting the build process for those people interested. I hope you find it useful.
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As I mentioned on another board, I know I'm going to be burned at the stake for this but since I figured I've got to die sometime, I thought I may as well own up to wanting to do something completely different with the Fertility Idol from Raiders...
As people who have seen my other work know, for me any movie prop is a prop first and foremost and I've never regarded the idol as something the character Indiana Jones did actually carry - because as Ford so eloquently stated in an interview: "**** it, its only a movie!". Since my feelings towards the idol are firmly rooted in the real world, I made the decision to try and make it reflect the prop as we saw it presented in the Prop Store collection photo's published a while back.
Since the general opinion out there appears to be that the existing Idols are generally not 100% accurate (not that I care), I chose to concentrate on replicating the prop in its sorry pre-restoration state as opposed to trying to make it 'accurate'.
As always, the photographs don't do the finish justice because the surface texture is not at all as pronounced as it seems from these pictures, but I hope they give you a reasonable preview of how it turned out.
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