Please help with Materia question - need some expert advice :)

greetings all. I am new to the board. I wanted to get some info on materia. i want to start creating materia displays for friends and fans of the series but I need to know how big the materia actually are. ive tried in vain to search for some actual pictures of the ff7 characters holding materia, so that I have a size approximation. i have seen one pic of cloud holding the black materia, but i know all materia isnt that large. i know some doujinshi have pics like that but i cant find them now. anyone have any info? id really appreciate some actual pics of artwork which displays them holding the materia so i can get the best reference when i start making these. i believe the balls themselves would be around 50 mm to 60 mm. i will also need to find some crystal ball vendors who have balls that resemble the materia very closely, so any help with actual colors would be great also. ive tried to find some pics with the colors that I can show to vendors to assist them in finding the closest ones they can. appreciate any advice. thanks again and once i get this info and have them built, i will post some pics for everyone. thanks

This thread is probably best suited to the FFVII forum so I moved it. :choc2:

Good luck with your materia displays. They sound neat. :)

You can see the slots for Materia on the cover from the game case in the Buster Sword. There is also the box of various materia from AC.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...-vii-cover.jpg
I would say that Materia are the size of a large marble.

Surprisingly difficult to find the AC scene with the Materia, but the attached image shows you pretty well what different Materia look like.

I'd say that your standard Materia would be about 2" diameter, and the would be exactly as shown in the game, except all glowey, so therefore appearing lighter.

Heres another two pics of some materia, Id say they're about 8cms roughly in diameter.

Good luck with the display, we will definatly be wanting to see some pics when its done.

(SPOILER)http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...k/Materia2.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...ck/Materia.jpg

There were materia replicas on sale on ebay a few years back, but they were so vastly overpriced you would be better served to go to a glassworks and buy orbs of the right size and colors.