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what does every imperial miniture have.......
a skulll
a useless gun
no
a purity seal.
i did this for my summer art exam and it was very cool looking
so i thought, the guys and gals might want to see how.
this is a nice little thing for a display base, army box or showing to the
unlucky redshirt.

you will need this

lol.

You should totally fashion a signet to stamp it with! It would look awesome, maybe as a trophy for a tourney??

i did use an imperial eagle for my school project but
it ruinedthe eagle so in the name of conserving bits i didnt put it the tutorial.

p.s is there any other race insignia you would like as a tutorial?

I looked at the first picture and wondered, "what on earth is that?" I think you should label it candle rather than "this" or get a better picture to make it idiot (i.e. me) proof.

Is it sad that I really want to do this with some legit looking parchment and wear it on some part of my clothing?

The answer is yes. Very sad.


...and very awesome.

its not sad even if my teacher said so

Its not sad,I am sure the guys at Comi-Con would love it.Maybe you could set up a booth and sell em!

Get a metal ring and put a clay skull and use a blowtorch to dry it onto it. Then all you need to do is stamp your ring on and you have a skull shape. Also you can make an aquila eagle like I did ^_^.

This looks awesome

Keep in mind if you use a stamp to put an Aquilla/Skull into the wax it will come out inverted. If you want a Convex seal, like the models have, you'll need to either carve the shape into your stamp. Or using clay(or any medium), Press the Aquilla/Skull into that so there is an imprint and then use that to stamp the seal.

just a thought, but you might want to use gothic script rather than a pen...

Or you can go to the guys I know of. I had them make me a couple of them based off my chapters forces.

http://www.3t-studios.com/?p=565

sorry... a little poor, and if you don't mind, drall.

Anyway, it's understandable:

Dip some coffee water [70GSM, so printing paper] on a piece of paper [size it as you wish] then let it dry and shrink. [important]. thats your paper.

Wax:
Get a red candle, light it, and collect some wax and stamp it.

not that hard, really.

I have a few recommendations:

Try actual sealing wax, rather than candle. The disadvantage is that it's more expensive than a candle, and it's a little brittle, so you're not going to be able to be rough with them, but it's much harder and will give you much more defined angles, and it's designed to stick to paper, so you could just pour it directly over the top of your parchment and get it solidly embedded in there. Be careful though, as much as hot candle wax can be painful, this stuff sticks like napalm and stays hot for quite a while. As far as parchment goes, something I've always used for D&D games whenever I want something that feels authentic, I'll take a piece of printer paper and abuse it; crumple it up, cook it at VERY low temperatures in the oven, cut and fray the edges, etc. After this, I 'paint' the paper with used teabags. It gives the paper a convincing enough tint, and it's cheap/fast to do. I'd typically print out onto the paper in an appropriate font, i.e. papyrus or some equivalent, and then do all this within about 10 minutes before starting the game. Best of all, you get to enjoy a cup of tea in the meantime!