First Draft of My Grail Diary.

[rob3d]

Hello all! I'm a new member to therpf but I've be browsing all of your amazing props for a while now. Truly great stuff!

I wanted to share one of my props. My 1st ever actually, The Grail diary. I am also a member of COW, where I post as cntrctkllr, so some of you will recognize my work.

Here is a Link to the rest of the album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/101423910098818907600/GrailDiary?feat=directlink

The entire diary is printed. I created my own font for it called JonesSR, which I will gladly share if anyone is interested. I also scanned in every image from the usual grail diary sources, (flowering of the middle ages, etc.) and traced them all by hand in illustrator so that I would have a perfect resolution independent master. I then Aligned the text as accurately I could using DVD screen grabs and many images supplied by the awesome people at COW. The result 8 months later was a printable version of the diary which could be printed in any resolution desired. I haven't aged the diary or started in on the inserts, as life will sometimes get in the way. However this is only my 1st draft and I will be making some formatting changes and printing it all over again in an attempt to get it as perfect as possible. I hope you guys like it and any critique is welcome.

Thanks

 

[TallDarkandDisfigured]

Looks great to me! I'm still a bit of an Indy noob especially where the Diary is concerned but it looks great.

Is this a story version or hero?

 

[MrRamen]

I think I can say that you've done some great work. If you've got electronic copies of every page then you're ready to start making some to sell, right? Haha. And I gotta ask if you included Hitler's signature.

But you're right, there's just one problem with the diary: it looks about 40 years too new! Beat that book up.

 

[juno]

Beautiful work. Some detail photos of your text work would be great to see.

 

[juno]

Never mind! The photos in your gallery were much better views. I love the font!

 

[rob3d]

I think I can say that you've done some great work. If you've got electronic copies of every page then you're ready to start making some to sell, right? Haha. And I gotta ask if you included Hitler's signature.

Also, there's just one problem with the diary: it looks about 40 years too new! Beat that book up.

Thanks!

LOL! Every friend of mine who has seen it has said I should sell copies, thats not really my style though. I like the adventure and detail of it all.

The diary right now is clean as a whistle. I do plan on aging it but I will most likely do it to the second draft as there are some major changes I'd like to make and aging the diary more than once seems like a daunting task.

And yes I do have versions of the "Map of the Mountain road" with and without Hitler's signature.

Looks great to me! I'm still a bit of an Indy noob especially where the Diary is concerned but it looks great.

Is this a story version or hero?

The Layout of my diary is a little unconventional. I loved the idea of a complete story diary but also wanted the feel of the Hero Prop. To accomodate both I created the entire prop as a story diary, but in the center of it all are the 60 or so hero pages in the order described at COW.

As a result I have both versions of that Hitler page in my diary. The one with the signature lies amongst the hero pages.

 

[rob3d]

Never mind! The photos in your gallery were much better views. I love the font!

Thanks. It took a while but I got it pretty close to where I needed it.

For anyone who wants it:
http://www.rac3d.com/fileserve/JonesSr.zip