Hogwarts Begginer's Set (Created: September 25, 2010)

Only the Crystal/Glass set is missing!

I happen to love the books written by J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series. Ever since the first book came out I've been an avid reader and right now I'm very much so looking forward to the 7th movie, even though the movies are not even close to the greatness of the books.

The first book explains in full detail what a first year student at Hogwarts should have. This list also gets send to Harry Potter. Hagrid takes Harry to London to buy his supplies.

From left to right:

• Wizard robes and a winter clock with silver button
• Red Dragonhide gloves
• Black Wizard Hat
• Telescope
• 2 copper scales
• Books and a wand
• Black Cauldron with spoon 

The hat and the robes are made of Black (Sculpey III). For the robes I just took a rectangle flattened piece of black and fold it in the middle once. I repeated this 3 times for a nice stack of clothes. I put a winter coat over it, with a silver pin as prescribed in the letter. The Hat is just modelled by hand, no silly tricks regarding that one. After baking I painted it with white acrylics.

The Red (Sculpey III) gloves are very tiny, but patterned by making small squares with a small kitchen knife. The scales are Copper (Sculpey III) and are not quite normal scales, but I did not really feel like making them really awesome, since they do not really play a big part in the book.

The colour for the telescope is made by merging black with silver, both Sculpey III. This gives a sparkly effect. If you have sparkles, you can also mix them with black for the same effect. I made a flattened plateau for the telescope to stand on. Two strings squished together make the stand, and a cylinder shaped telescope on top of it. I added a drop of Liquid Polymer Clay to make the glass effect. After baking it I put some varnish over the 'glass' as well, to make it extra shiny.

The Cauldron is made by the same colour as the telescope. I made the plateau for it by just molding it with my hands, and putting 4 tiny balls of clay below it as the 'legs'. The Cauldron self was made by modelling some clay on a marble, cutting of the edges so that they would be nice and round. The marble can just be baked with it, and can be taken out later. After taking it out I filled the kettle with liquid polymer clay, added some random pieces of red and yellow clay for the herbs and a black string for the spoon. I baked the cauldron again after this. The water is also varnished after baking.

I made the books by taking Ivory (Sculpey III) for the pages. The covers are either made of dark green or navy, and one of them is beige. They have letters written on them in white paint. Nothing special about the books otherwise.

The wand is a piece of brown clay modelled into a string. I 'carved' some patterns in it, which are not really visible on the picture.