Make your own ring!

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This past weekend I made myself an old stone Honor Guard Ring. I wrapped some tape around my finger to get the size, and then put that on some .01 styrene plastic (though figure package plastic will work just as well). I then "fluted" the ring. This basically means that I made the ring larger towards the outside/front of the ring, and narrower towards the inside/ back of the ring. Then I started sculpting the milliput onto the plastic strap. Now I used Millput, but you can use either Milliput, or Green Stuff (Kneadatite). Milliput will give it a more cold stone like feel, while Green Stuff feels more like plastic. Once I had the ring to the desired thickness I made sure it was round by sliding it back on my finger, then slid if back off, and allowed it to cure. then I started work on the emblem. I'll be making a comic style Hal Jordan ring for my son this weekend so I'll be giving a step by step pictorial then, but for now here's what you'll need supply wise (the ring you see is the one I made last weekend):



closer pics of my ring:

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Well I figured I'd start on my 13yr old son's GL ring today while I'm waiting for my turn to sleep (since we both work nights my wife, and I take turns watching the younger two 2yr old Jacob, and 11 mo old Josh during the day). Fortunately I still have the tape strip from when I made the kids first rings out of just plastic.









I had to cut off a little more putty off, because it wouldn't go all the way around the ring, and ended up w/ a little too much


So I went ahead w/ the next phase as well

testing the clearity

encasing the gem


Now I've got to wait for the putty to cure some before I combine the parts. The putty is a little too soft right now.

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It's cured just enough that I was able to mold the ring, and emblem together.





Now I'll let it harden the rest of the way, and then I'll sand it down nice, and smooth.

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Well my son tried the ring on yesterday after noon since the putty was cured enough, and some how it was too big for him, so I removed the plastic ring from inside of it, and just fit me. So now I have 2 rings.

Ok so when I got home this morning, and the putty was thouroughly cured. So I sanded the ring down nice, and smooth. Then I used a grinding wheel in my Dremel to cut a path into the side of the ring to put a strip of clear green plastic into.






Then I took the metallic green paint I got from Walmart, and painted the ring. Voila you have a classic Green Lantern Ring.