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Pierre990429
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 Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:52 pm Post subject: My Blade Runner Prop Collection: License Plate & Spinner |
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Hello,
first post here. I'm a Blade Runner fan from France.
Recently, I won a 3e5 license plate from the ScreenUsed auction held on November 3rd 2012.
Here are some photos :
Over the years, quite a few of them were sold during various auctions. From info I gathered, I think ~30 of them were made during production.
Here's a list of some of these license plates :
http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/production/props/lostandfound/plates/
(The Bladezone site seems to have closed? - this "media.bladezone" link still works, though)
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Pierre990429
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I also got my hands on this 1/48 (4 inches / 10 cm) Resin Spinner.
Yeah, I know there are tons of replicas out here... I don't want to start a debate now.
But here's my question: I don't dare to cut the vacuform transparent plastic canopy right now, I'm afraid I'll destroy it. It seems tricky anyway to make it "fit" the car seamlessly.
So : do anyone here know where I could get another one (let's say to "practice"...) , a "replica" ? |
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joberg
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Bienvenue Pierre ...it's great to see another member from France joining our ranks!
Love the plate and also the Spinner. As for that vacu-formed cockpit, you could try to find
the same kind of plastic (TPEG) and with a blow-dryer you could try to get the same shape by putting the plastic sheet over a plaster form of the cockpit and shape it that way...or simply cut (using sharp cissors) the dome you already have  |
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I picked up one of these a few years back, same kind of vac-formed canopy, was a real pain to cut it cleanly and it seemed to have too much curve to it at the front end.
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Pierre990429
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The Loyalizer wrote: | | I picked up one of these a few years back, same kind of vac-formed canopy, was a real pain to cut it cleanly and it seemed to have too much curve to it at the front end. |
Aaargh. That's what I was afraid of.
Here are two more shots.
Page 29 of Don Shay's book Blade Runner : The inside story , it says:
(Mark Stetson speaking) The next one [spinner size] to be completed was about four inches long. It too, had a full interior, but no figures. Unfortunately, it saw very limited use in the movie. The original plan was to build a fleet of those, so we cast up about twenty of them. Only one or two were ever finished, though, and those just sat in the background on some of the later cityscape scenes.
So I might have an "unfinished" version.
Here is one of the few "finished" ones. Painted and canopy in place.
http://www.proparchives.com/science-fiction/science-fiction-1980s/blade-runner/miniature-spinner-police-vehicle-from-blade-runner
Invisible Studio used to do a 1/48 spinner replica.
http://collection.mybladerunner.com/invisible-studio-spinner-148-scale/
There was also a canopy. Any idea where I could find one? Not sure it would fit, though. |
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If the canopy doesn't fit well, you can always shape it with blow dryer (low heat first of course)...as for the Spinner, many were re-casted over the years; yours seems crisp. DaveG has one of those (if he could chime in, I'm sure he would tell stories aboutl that one).
Good luck with the canopy  |
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Pierre990429
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Thanks!
But I think I'll let it as it is, for now. (don't want to waste it)
You're right, it's really difficult to say for sure if one of these 4 inches spinners is "real"... the history and origin of mine give me some chances, though. |
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