How to make your own Spiral Heart Moon Rod for your Sailor Moon Cosplay (Tutorial)

Hello, everyone!
I decided to do this tutorial in english because some people wanted me to make more tutorials in this language, and i believe almost everyone understands it. Also, this is a very simple tutorial, you can understand it basically from just looking at the pictures i took.

My idea for making this sailor moon sceptre started when a dear friend of mine gifted me a magical girl toy she found on some random store, the toy resembled sailor moon style and it immediatly reminded me of the Spiral Heart Moon Rod she used in Sailor Moon S so i had the idea to make it from this "base", plus, it has light and sound when you move it! It's so cute!
I tought: "i can finally have a sailor moon toy!" because i never had the chance to have one when i was a kid. I was excited though it took me almost a year to actually do it because i kept procrastinating.


I couldn't find an original photo of the toy, i took it but it got lost along with my old phone, so you won't have the first part of the tutorial, sadly.


When i started working on it it looked like this



It originally had two white wings at both sides, which i cutted with a really hot knife, but first i took out the screws it had and disarmed the toy because i didn't wanted to cut any wires or any important thing that interfered with the lights or sound of it, so i cutted it separately and then i got the parts together again.
I used the wings for another Sailor Moon wand, the kaleidoscope! (which i made last minute before the con with help from my friends, i need to re-do it URGENTLY!! )

When i had it ready the first thing to do was cover up the heart but leaving the part that had lights. I used "cold porcelain" (masa flexible) to mold it, it is really cheap and easy to work with, i do most of my accesories out of it, with this material you just mold it like you would if you were making something out of clay, and then leave it to dry in some place fresh (but not at direct sun exposure) and it will become hard in a day or so. I added some little red stones i already had, i do this so it will have the shape of the stone but then i take them off when it's time to actually paint the piece, then i glue them together with simple white glue.

I really wanted to give it a "real life" look rather than just a toy, so i decided i will make it with real ribbon and not make it with cold porcelain, i made the bow and then glued it with hot silicone, then i molded the crescent moon part on top of it.

It was rather easy up until now, i had to make it longer and also give it another shape, because as you can see this Heart Moon Rod is wider at the bottom part and when she holds it you can see is much bigger than the toy i had. I didn't really knew what to do... so i figured out this:

I added pvc tube at the bottom part, i cutted it and then i glued it with silicone and then secured it with tape.

As you can see the shape isn't exactly even, or smooth, so i had to create the whole shape of the bottom part. I did this with paper mache (newspaper and a mixture of white glue and water), i did like 6 layers of this, everytime i did a new layer i had to sand it.

It didn't look quite as i thought it will be, so i added a cold porcelain layer this time and molded it as much as i could, then i did another 2 or 3 layers with paper mache and finally i did the final layer with cold porcelain (didn't took picture this time, sorry!) at the end it looked quite even and flat.

And finally it was time to paint it!!

Like i mentioned before i wanted it to look like it was the real thing, so i used gold colors and the pink and red were glased satiny style paint which shines but not in a tacky way, i really put a lot of love into this part! it's my favorite thing to do

It turned out like this

And it also looks really nice when the heart part is on! It's really cute.

I was pleased with the results, this shows you can do anything with cheap chinese imitation toys haha! They are great bases for magical girl props, you just have to think out ot the box and have imagination. All materials used in the making of this sceptre were really cheap and accesible for everyone, it just requires love and dedication to make nice stuff :3 i hope this inspires you to create a lot of beautiful cosplay props.