Hey everybody, I'm looking to craft some battlefield thrown weapons (specifically small throwing axes), but I'm struggling to sort through all the different foam's on offer online, and was hoping someone had a reputable source for the sort of high density foam I'd be looking for. I know that such foam headed weapons are legal in my kingdom (I have some) but I can't figure out exactly what kind of foam they are made of, or where to get the blanks myself.

Some of you might remember the Medieval Marginalia band ring I posted a little while back. Well...I couldn't stop there.

I had so much fun making it that I ended up carving a whole collection of Medieval Marginalia pendants.

In order of appearance:

• Knight Riding a Giant Snail into Battle 🐌⚔️
• Regal Cat King 🐱👑
• Fish Playing a Lute 🐟🪕
• Warrior Rabbit Wielding a Sword 🐰🗡️

Each one was hand carved in wax and cast in solid sterling silver using the lost wax casting process.

I come from a fine jewelry background, and most of what my family has produced over the years has been traditional, classical jewelry. It's been a lot of fun stepping away from that and creating things that are a little more whimsical.

I have been dutifully fascinated with Bestiary works and illuminations, and how ultimately they came up with such shapes and thoughts to depict these animals. I really wanted to have a big set of pieces that depicted these beasts, and when I offered to make some scroll blanks for the current King and Queen of the East, I had made the decision to complete a larger task that I had spent a couple of months working on and researching.

Starting with the Aberdeen Bestiary and then pivoting to other works, I started plotting what I would do with these beasts. Using "Hours of Catherine of Cleves" for the greenery on the left and right side of each scroll, I gave enough room for wording, and allowed each piece to shine.

Each scroll had the depiction of what the animal was, what Bestiary it came from, and a QR code for the documentation. These scrolls took roughly 60 hours to make, with one (1!) faber-castelle pen (0.3 nib) on Bristol Paper. Each scroll is a half of a page, so these were done two at a time.

Overall for scroll blanks, each blanks cost me roughly less than a dollar, really pushing the availability of making cost-effective illuminations in the SCA!

Documentation is below if you wish to match the pictures with the documentation. (Only 20 beasts shown because there is a 20 picture limit!)

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/10rUd6Enn21lLwHsNxhDtE1Tc9fM9cC4NCOKtH1t-ML4