Selk
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Ladies and Gentleman.
I may have a project in mind that could get me a place of honor in The Colossal Waste of Time Hall of Fame.
I am outlining an attempt to build replicas of the 20 treasures collected in the classic text adventure "Zork I: The Great Underground Empire".
Now. being that these treasures are made of precious metals like gold and silver and ivory, I have no intention of making them accurate. My plan is to make some of them out of resin, some out of glass. What I need here are suggestions on building materials.
Since this is a text adventure and essentially all of the treasures are created out of words, I have to find pictures on Google that most closely represented what I was going for (I'll post them when I get them all together):
The treasures:
* A Painting - I'm fair to middling with a paint brush so I may do this one by hand.
* A Leather Bag of Coins - I have a leather bag but I don't know if I should use plastic coins or buy some from a renaissance fair.
* A Platinum Bar - Small piece of metal, maybe with a large "F" for Flathead on it.
* A Gold Coffin - A daunting task. An Egyptian style coffin painted gold. The problem isn't the coffin, it is going to get it to be that perfect shiny gold paint. And I have no idea how to do it.
* A Sceptre - Simple. Whiddle a piece of wood into a staff and make it ornate, then add some jewels. But, like the coffin, I don't know to give that shiny gold coat of paint. I don't know what kind of paint that would be.
* A Pot of Gold - The easiest to make. A pot from the Halloween story filled with gold coin candy.
* A Beautifully Jeweled Scarab - Little bit tough. Where do I find a replica of a beetle that can be painted.
* A Crystal Skull - This will have to be carved out of glass and I know nothing about carving glass.
* A Large Emerald - A chunk of green glass, much like kryptonite.
* A Silver Chalice - Silver cup. Probably find it at Pier 1 or something.
* A Jewel Encrusted Egg - This will take some work. I'm envisioning something like a fabrege egg. And it will be even more work if I want it to be hinged.
* A Golden Clockwork Canary - This one may come last because it is so intricate. I have no idea where to even start with this one.
* A Bauble - Simple. A brass bedknob. Not so simple: where to find one.
* A Trunk of Jewels - Trip to Hobby Lobby for the trunk and then some junk jewelery to fill it with.
* A Crystal Trident - As with the skull this one would be made of glass, but I haven't the first idea of how to work with glass.
* A Jade Figurine - Figure molded in resin and painted milky green.
* A Sapphire-Encrusted Bracelet - Junk jewelry.
* A Huge Diamond - Like the emerald, a piece of clear glass. I'm thinking it would be rough cut.
* An Ivory Torch - I am thinking a piece of wood, painted white, smoothed down and carved to get an ornate look.
* An Ancient Map - A piece of vinyl with the game map drawn onto it.
I may have a project in mind that could get me a place of honor in The Colossal Waste of Time Hall of Fame.
I am outlining an attempt to build replicas of the 20 treasures collected in the classic text adventure "Zork I: The Great Underground Empire".
Now. being that these treasures are made of precious metals like gold and silver and ivory, I have no intention of making them accurate. My plan is to make some of them out of resin, some out of glass. What I need here are suggestions on building materials.
Since this is a text adventure and essentially all of the treasures are created out of words, I have to find pictures on Google that most closely represented what I was going for (I'll post them when I get them all together):
The treasures:
* A Painting - I'm fair to middling with a paint brush so I may do this one by hand.
* A Leather Bag of Coins - I have a leather bag but I don't know if I should use plastic coins or buy some from a renaissance fair.
* A Platinum Bar - Small piece of metal, maybe with a large "F" for Flathead on it.
* A Gold Coffin - A daunting task. An Egyptian style coffin painted gold. The problem isn't the coffin, it is going to get it to be that perfect shiny gold paint. And I have no idea how to do it.
* A Sceptre - Simple. Whiddle a piece of wood into a staff and make it ornate, then add some jewels. But, like the coffin, I don't know to give that shiny gold coat of paint. I don't know what kind of paint that would be.
* A Pot of Gold - The easiest to make. A pot from the Halloween story filled with gold coin candy.
* A Beautifully Jeweled Scarab - Little bit tough. Where do I find a replica of a beetle that can be painted.
* A Crystal Skull - This will have to be carved out of glass and I know nothing about carving glass.
* A Large Emerald - A chunk of green glass, much like kryptonite.
* A Silver Chalice - Silver cup. Probably find it at Pier 1 or something.
* A Jewel Encrusted Egg - This will take some work. I'm envisioning something like a fabrege egg. And it will be even more work if I want it to be hinged.
* A Golden Clockwork Canary - This one may come last because it is so intricate. I have no idea where to even start with this one.
* A Bauble - Simple. A brass bedknob. Not so simple: where to find one.
* A Trunk of Jewels - Trip to Hobby Lobby for the trunk and then some junk jewelery to fill it with.
* A Crystal Trident - As with the skull this one would be made of glass, but I haven't the first idea of how to work with glass.
* A Jade Figurine - Figure molded in resin and painted milky green.
* A Sapphire-Encrusted Bracelet - Junk jewelry.
* A Huge Diamond - Like the emerald, a piece of clear glass. I'm thinking it would be rough cut.
* An Ivory Torch - I am thinking a piece of wood, painted white, smoothed down and carved to get an ornate look.
* An Ancient Map - A piece of vinyl with the game map drawn onto it.
