My Grail Diary Replica

[Soxbrother]

Hello,

I wanted to show you guys my Grail Diary Replica
from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade,
I made a few years ago.


Let me know what you guys think.
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Greetings,
Soxbrother

More pictures here, the full gallery on Flickr :

Grail Diary Replica - Indiana Jones - a set on Flickr

 

[Serenity]

Looks good, mate. :thumbsup My only suggestions are to distress the cover to give it a more used look and to ditch the photocopied/scanned(?) pages because it looks as if it copied parts of the distressing too. Other than that, your hand-drawn pages look good and I like your handwriting, as it makes the diary more personal to you. Kudos!

 

[Soxbrother]

Looks good, mate. :thumbsup My only suggestions are to distress the cover to give it a more used look and to ditch the photocopied/scanned(?) pages because it looks as if it copied parts of the distressing too. Other than that, your hand-drawn pages look good and I like your handwriting, as it makes the diary more personal to you. Kudos!

Thanks,

If I have the time, I'll look into how to give the cover a more used look.

Most of the pages, I found on a website, can't remember the name.

And I printed them on some old style paper I found in the art-shop.

The handwriting, isn't exactly mine :confused,

I recreated the handwriting of Henry Jones with a special
program that allows you to make your own font,
then typed the whole text in and printed it.

Soxbrother

 

[GeneralFROSTY]

Better than what I could do!
Did you try using coffee to stain the pages? I think that's the popular method to get that aged look.
Ditto on the cover, maybe a magic eraser will dull down the color as well.
Other than that, can't say much more since you are doing what this forum is all about - making prop replicas with passion!

 

[TallDarkandDisfigured]

Looks great to me! I'm about to start tackling this project myself..

 

[Soxbrother]

Better than what I could do!
Did you try using coffee to stain the pages? I think that's the popular method to get that aged look.
Ditto on the cover, maybe a magic eraser will dull down the color as well.
Other than that, can't say much more since you are doing what this forum is all about - making prop replicas with passion!

I'll try it soon, but I don't want to mess up the diary.

I'll be extra careful. :confused

Soxbrother

 

[Soxbrother]

Looks great to me! I'm about to start tackling this project myself..

Good luck.

Here are some useful links.

I think I used this site for info :

IndyGear - Props - Grail Diary

IndyGear - Props - Grail Diary Pages

Zen indygear Archives - Grail Diary Inserts

And probably on this forum also some useful info.

Greetz,
Soxbrother

 

[Atlas]

The book looks great!
Just one thing that popped into my mind-if it was Indy's father who mailed the book to him, why was it addressed for Prof. Indiana Jones, rather than to Henry Jones Jr.?

_A