Hitchhiker's Guide and Heart of Gold patch, photos on post #23!

i thought i was the only one who liked this film

sorry i cant help, all i could offer is what you already have..

ive not seen anyone do a replica guide yet.

z

You two are not alone. I like the film to. Hell, I like anything to do with the "Guide". TV show/comic book/ radio show. everything.

Well, my mother-in-law stopped by to collect measurements and photos so hopefully we'll have something pretty close. She's going to take a stab at the Heart of Gold patch as well, so that's going to leave me to come up with a Guide.

I'm going to grab some screen caps tomorrow, I'll post 'em up here when I'm through.

Interesting story (to me)... my wife and I probably wouldn't have been together if not for The Hitchhiker's Guide. We were both on our high school speech team at the same time, and she was doing Radio speaking at the time. She had her copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Scripts, which she let me read a bit of on the bus ride home. I thought it was cool, conversation struck up, and here we are almost 11 years later.

Needless to say, I love pretty much everything that has to do with the Guide. We've collected 1st edition/1st printing signed copies of Mostly Harmless and So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. Working on procuring the rest, that's going to be one of those lifelong collections that hopefully one day we will finish.

Got long winded there... anyway... Guide screen caps coming tomorrow!

For those of you curious... my costume will start with this as a base. Not perfect, but close enough. I already know I will likely not be able to come up with Arthur's identical towel, so we're going with an 80/20 rule for this costume.

Here we go - a little rough round the edges, but better than the grab!



I have a couple of shots of the Book from the website & trailer (don't have the DVD!), so I'll see if I can find 'em on my old PC.

C.

Wow, thanks Coz! That's fantastic!!

"Glad to be of service... "

I found my copy of the making-of book, so here's a couple of larger scans of the book:

The original logo - a little cleaner than the online scan.


Ford holding the book - scale ref:


Prop in construction:






Front Cover logo:


Back Cover image:


Spine text:


If you're in a building mood, what about the Point Of View gun?


Coz.

Finally, a grab of the Book from the UK movie site:


C.

Nice Story Dante8

I never met women like that.

I once tried to chat up this cute bird at a fancy dress party.
She was like "Who are you supposed to be?"
and I said "I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the galaxy baby!"

She just stared at me like I had 2 heads... and 3 arms.

jonny5, I'm a pretty lucky guy. No doubt about it.

Coz: thanks for all the material! I am kind've in the building mood right now, but she's very clear that she doesn't like the POV gun because its not canon to the books and it bothers her. Plus she doesn't want to have to tote it around at the convention.

As I'm looking at the film, the opening crawl (where they show the giant guide) seems to make it appear that the spine text is written in the block style letters that the movie title is in.

That makes me very curious as to where the spine text as it appears in Coz's photos and images comes from... I wonder if there was more than one version of the guide?

For that first scene, it seems as if both the logos and the inside of the guide has light sheet or something in it to make it glow. This makes me believe that the prop we see in Coz's pictures is the same one, since the four wires likely hook the guide up to a power source so it will light up.

The curling at the edge of the spine could be something like gaffer's tape to cover the side of the prop, or a temporary measure.

I went out to Hobby Lobby today and found a table top picture frame that appeared as if it was the proper scale (I compared my hand to guy's hand in the picture below).

Its measurements are 5 1/2" square, and 7/8" thick, however I think the actual prop is likely thicker than the frame that I have. I may use this frame as a size reference, but I think for the sake of this costume I may scratchbuild my Guide.

I'll probably forgo the light sheet for this go around and settle for painted on or printed stickers, but I would like to work out some sort of brushed metal for the interior of the Guide.

More progress coming soon, I've got a scant three weeks to finish this one! I'll post some construction pics once I get underway!

This video is from the UK Hikers movie site, but must be from a early test, as it differs pretty wildly from the movie version:



Curiously, in the prop build pics, it looks like the spine text I posted is on there. Thats where I got the spine text from.

I think that the curling is black paper used on the prototype (the finish does look a lot like paper to me - black foamboard maybe?).

Here's a shot of the movie book spine - the same font as the Don't Panic on the back cover - couldn't track it down myself, but might be easier who can google-fu:



Dante, you could maybe build off of the picture frame, or re-fix the hinges to a spine (two piano hinges), and build up the 'page edges' for the screen.

Could maybe chain some white LEDs around the inside edge for a simple backlight (those dollarstore lightsabers?).

The cover logos do glow quite visibly red and yellow, but the 'off' pics make it look yellowy - maybe pale yellow frosted or milky plastic backed with red lighting gel?
Or printed transparency film?

Think your scale is right, BTW!


Personally, I like a couple of the earlier designs also shown in the making of book. As well as the BBC TV version of the book!

C.

does anyone have any props from this movie? I debating on whether or not to get the prop guns from the movie that neca released. Not sure why they sell the toy version and the "replica" version, from pics it looks like the exact same thing. any one of them too?

If anyone decides to make a run of the Heart of Gold patch count me in for one. It's a cool design.

Imagine my surprise at this thread as I am working on a prop of the book right now. I am almost at the "asking photo shop guru's for help with the graphics" stage!

Did you ever get this finished? I would LOVE a copy of this prop! I loved the way it was built in the new film! Any pics yet?

WOAW... first time I saw this... cool thread!

Haven't seen this on the thread, so here's my contribution, the Magrethea symbol. You can download the EPS file



http://www.mediafire.com/?dyjl3ztednt

Thanks for that, turned out really great! I'll have to post what we ended up with for my wife's costume if I can dig up the pics.

linoge said:

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Haven't seen this on the thread, so here's my contribution, the Magrethea symbol. You can download the EPS file



http://www.mediafire.com/?dyjl3ztednt

Love the move... would like to see of some props/costumes that ended up being made!

TK5917 said:

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Love the move... would like to see of some props/costumes that ended up being made!

Here's a couple pictures of my wife's Trillian costume, which got her runner-up two years running in the Queen of Geeks contest. She did a slideshow presentation in the spirit of the HHGTTG film's guide entries, reciting memorized passages from the book.





Here's a closeup of the Heart of Gold patch that my mother-in-law embroidered for the costume:



This was our first real foray into costuming. I did an Arthur Dent costume as well, I tried my hardest but couldn't find screen-accurate pants or towel, but it came out good enough (photo taken from Flickr member uforth):



Enjoy!