I cast pewter mounts to decorate the center of each section: towers for the sides and back, and a rondel with the baronial arms for the front. Each mount was modeled in several stages in Sculpey, using Tandy quick rivets as a base.
These were used to sand cast pewter copies, which were then cleaned and mounted to the brass sections.
The field of the rondel on the front was painted using Testor’s gloss enamel paint.
For Adela’s coronet I wanted to reduce the weight as much as possible, so I made a thinner tower mount using a soapstone mold.
I also made a new rondel using the same method:
