• A sword, such as the spare one from the knight of the realm sprue.
• Material for making a stone such as polystyrene.

Step 1

Make the stone. If you are making the stone out of polystyrene, it is very easy. It would be practically impossible to shape the stone from stone however as there is very little chance of you actually being able to get the sword into it. You just have to roughly shape a mound or boulder with a flat bottom. This is going to be your stone.

Step 2

Prepare the sword. If the sword is attached to an arm, you've got to do something about it. All you have to do is cut the hand and arm away using a shape knife, if it is a metal sword and arm their may be more difficulty and you may want to use the second method. Once most of it has been cut off, you may have to file it a bit. Alternatively you could clip or cut the sword blade away from the hand leaving as much of the sword as possible. Then resculpt a new hilt from greenstuff.

Step 3

Poke the sword into the stone. If you used polystyrene it should be very easy. Once a hole is made, remove the sword and put it on one side to paint in a minute.

Step 4

Paint the stone. It is very easy, first paint or spray the whole stone black. Be careful that the spray paint isn't going to affect the stone, you may want to test it on a spare piece of polystyrene first. Make sure that the black paint is into every nook and cranny in the polystyrene or it won't look as good as it should. You do not however need to get paint into the sword hole.

When all of the black paint is dry, paint it again with a dark grey. Do the same technique as you would with drybrushing but leave more paint on the brush. So that the stone is painted grey in all but the cracks and crevices.

When the dark grey is dry drybrush it with a lighter grey until you are happy with it.

Step 5

Paint the sword. Paint the sword as you would normally paint a sword, but make it more elaborate. For instance give it a gold hilt. You may want to make it look enchanted or magical.

Step 6

When both of the bits are dry, shove the sword back into the sword hole. You may want to secure it with a blob of glue, but I didn't bother as I didn't think it was worthwhile.

Step 7

If you want you could create a base for your sword in a stone, but again there is not much point unless you really want to.

 

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19-Apr-2004