I love seeing literary props like this. Movie and videogame props are impressive because the artists obsessively recreate the details of the original in physical form. Items from literature are more interesting. Once you've matched the known features you have to fill in the gaps from your own imagination. Two different people could create equally "accurate" interpretations of the same item with wildly different approaches.
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Waking up to this was pretty much the awesomest thing about this week. Thank you for the feature!
I've since made a second very similar one that I like even better, though I've yet to photograph it.
The origin story is here (no artifact is complete without an origin story!):
http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/613232.html
Notes on making the thing are here:
http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/610074.html
Really, really not complicated as far as weathering goes. I used cocoa powder extensively, a trick I read about here. It is quite reddish used alone, and perfect for Barsoomian dust. So, that's especially cool.
I always wanted somebody to make a t-shirt with a Burroughs injoke: "We went to Jasoom and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Maybe with an image of Earth seen from orbit for the slow crowd.
I would buy the hell out of that shirt.
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