Street signs lightbox project:

[Mr Webber]

Since i could never afford the neon collection i would like, i thought some
lightboxes might be a good substitute. After some stops and starts, the
printer finally put these together and for the price, im very happy.The plan now is to knock up the lightboxes needed using some spare
wood lying around and some cheap LEDS. Its fairly easy to set up the LEDSin a chase pattern to simulate the real things and my wish is to have them battery powered.

A goal for the walk now / dont walk sign is to have a fully prac version
with the genuine sound effects. I have no idea how to go about this so if anyone can guide me on the electronics required and a way to isolate
the sound effects off the movie and then to "remix" them, there would be
a lightbox in it for you. Its all trial and error now to find the cheapest way of putting these all together and if there is any interest, i could make them available early in the new year, no idea on cost yet.

Once work starts to happen again i plan to get the KOSS Stereophones, Atari,
Pan-Am, RCA and TDK logos done. It will also mean that most of my spare
time will be gone so its back to the shed.





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[SaberFreak]

I'm game to try and create the electronoics for the walk/don't walk sound and light effects but it'll have to wait till next year. I've tingled with something similar so I hve a fairly good idea how to go about it.

I don't have a sure fire way of doing it though, so if someone else can step forward with a solution before I do, go right ahead.

[Mr Webber]

Thats great Saberfreak, theres no real hurry as ive still got a lot to do with just the straight forward lightboxes
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[Gaff87]

These look great! Can't wait to see what they look like finished. Very well done.

[jfuste]

Hey boys! Are you EVER opening new threads and new projects only to fool me!!!!

What a great idea!!! I love it!!!

Well, well... I cannot wait more to really start the FIRST volume of the prop book... I see so many projects going on... is impossible to include all of them in one book! Wow! AWESOME!

THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!!
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[Mr Webber]

Thanks very much Neil, it would be cool to make them really big and use fluro tubes as the light scouce but once you get to over
double the Coke sign size, the price starts to get outta hand, although, a 1:1 scale KOSS box would be way cool.

Enough for two books Joan
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[joberg]

Excellent idea! These would enhance any display.

[BeastMaster]

nice! like the off-world one especially.
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[Mr Webber]

joberg, you can see why i want to make a working spinner roof lights
display, perfect background lighting.
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[jfuste]

[Gaff87]

One of my favourite sounds in BR is "Don't walk", beaten, just, by the Esper Machine

[Mr Webber]

Agreed, if i can get it up to scratch, i will test my endurance and see how long i can listen to it before it gets on my nerves

Forgot to list this one..........didnt have enough funds to do it at the time
but it will be the next one made.......

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[joberg]

Yes OffWorld66 I understant but first you have to decide how many lights you want for your display. As you know, that car looks like a Xmas tree on acid.

[Mr Webber]

I want to recreate the whole top lights, the 5 tear drop lights, the rounder light off to the side and the five rectangle lights they sit on.
Ive got some cheap rectangle fog lights that only need some blue
and red lighting gel.
Even have the spinning light motors from cheap emergency lights ready to go. When i get some tear drops, i`ll use orange and blue gel.
Everything runs off 12 volt, should look awesome, where to find the time
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[joberg]

OffWorld you don't need a display; you need a hangar first to display the display

[Mr Webber]

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[temponaut]

Watching with great interest, offworld66. Another great project!
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[doc3d]

Two fairly simple ways of making any kind of sign are either opaque film, which is cut to shape and removed from a plexi sheet, or a quickie photo silk screen. I've done lots of silk screen logo work, and all you have to do is generate your pattern with a computer, wait for a sunny day for the UV exposure on a UV-sensitive silkscreen, then wash off the resist and ink it. You use a breyer roller (any art supply store) to apply ink. You can make your frame easily-- check google for how-to info and sources of photo silkscreens.

doc

[andy]

I wonder if anybody can make photo stat negatives anymore? It looks like that is what they used in the movie to make a lot of stuff including the VID Phon touch screen. It is also how the Star Trek: TNG L-Cars control panels were made. I also think the ID cards in BR were made this way. Digital printing has pretty much done away with it. None of the places that I have worked with still use it anymore.

Andy

[doc3d]

Yes. I know an outfit in Seattle that can do it. I had them make some film barrier screens for some 3D work. (Barrier screens allow the creation of 3D or motion images viewable without glasses, e.g. a lenticular without the vertical or horizontal lenses. Your eyes are forced to view a section of a reconstructed image printed in strips, as though through prison bars, so each eye can only see a specific angle of view. They've been around since the early 1900s.) You have to it on litho film, and it's just a tad spendy. But the same outfit can do b/w litho for absolute black, as well as color.

This kind of stuff is beyond the financial range of most fans.

doc