ShiftySamurai
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I decided to take on a bit of a more complicated build than the 3D printed or epoxy clay things I have done in the past. The Necronomicon has always been something I wanted, but have never thought to make. I’ve never made a book, sculpted clay, created molds, used latex, or painted latex, so everything about this build was going to be new for me.
I decided to start with the pages. I never thought about recreating them by hand, and I found a website that had the pages from Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and what they called “The Lost Pages”. I decided to use the ones from Evil Dead 2 and the Lost Pages. I printed them on coffee stained paper using a laser printer from work (don’t tell them, I used a fair bit of red toner).
After printing out the pages, I got to work on aging them. I wanted these pages to be super dirty, as the book is over 1,000 years old and I doubt it’s been super well taken care of. Unfortunately, aging the paper made the paper stack about 10 times larger than it was, so I put 4 Walking Dead Omnibuses on top of them to try to flatten them back out some.
This is where I bound the pages together in signatures. I didn’t know the correct page order, so I guessed. I neglected to take any photos of the bound pages because I started work on sculpting the cover out of wax based clay.
It’s missing a lot of the texture of the real book, and an ear, but I was happy with where it was heading. I continued working on the sculpt, and then dropped some plaster over the top, after leaving it alone for an hour I came back to try to remove the plaster and was left with this.
This is when I opened all the windows in my office, turned on a bunch of fans, and started laying down latex. Following the directions (a mistake) left me spending the next 8 hours laying down as thin of layers as I could. I was left with this:
I purchased some Monster Makers latex mask paints, and after some trial and error, I ended up with a paint job that I WAS happy with, but now I feel is a bit too orange and not nearly brown enough.
Before I took a picture, I glued the latex cover to a double stacked sandwich of comic book acid free backing boards that I cut down to size.
A little wood glue between the paper and some CA glue for the paper to latex, and I had bound the inner cover with paper.
I wasn’t sure how to connect the cover to the bound pages, so I used some more wood glue and weight. It’s probably not super strong, but I’m happy with how it turned out.
I decided to start with the pages. I never thought about recreating them by hand, and I found a website that had the pages from Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and what they called “The Lost Pages”. I decided to use the ones from Evil Dead 2 and the Lost Pages. I printed them on coffee stained paper using a laser printer from work (don’t tell them, I used a fair bit of red toner).
After printing out the pages, I got to work on aging them. I wanted these pages to be super dirty, as the book is over 1,000 years old and I doubt it’s been super well taken care of. Unfortunately, aging the paper made the paper stack about 10 times larger than it was, so I put 4 Walking Dead Omnibuses on top of them to try to flatten them back out some.
This is where I bound the pages together in signatures. I didn’t know the correct page order, so I guessed. I neglected to take any photos of the bound pages because I started work on sculpting the cover out of wax based clay.
It’s missing a lot of the texture of the real book, and an ear, but I was happy with where it was heading. I continued working on the sculpt, and then dropped some plaster over the top, after leaving it alone for an hour I came back to try to remove the plaster and was left with this.
This is when I opened all the windows in my office, turned on a bunch of fans, and started laying down latex. Following the directions (a mistake) left me spending the next 8 hours laying down as thin of layers as I could. I was left with this:
I purchased some Monster Makers latex mask paints, and after some trial and error, I ended up with a paint job that I WAS happy with, but now I feel is a bit too orange and not nearly brown enough.
Before I took a picture, I glued the latex cover to a double stacked sandwich of comic book acid free backing boards that I cut down to size.
A little wood glue between the paper and some CA glue for the paper to latex, and I had bound the inner cover with paper.
I wasn’t sure how to connect the cover to the bound pages, so I used some more wood glue and weight. It’s probably not super strong, but I’m happy with how it turned out.
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