Hi there,
I'm new here. I've spent half the day reading the 73 pages of this topic ! Now I have a precise idea of what has already been made and what's left to be created in the future
Let me introduce myself. I'm Patrick (also known as Toutflou, Pastoutnet or Pastounet on other forums). I'm from Paris (yes it's in France and no, not all the French are like Hervé (I've read the whole story, and I must say that I painfully remember him bothering me on Facebook too !)).
I've been generous to the Back to the future community for more than a decade. I started with a
website that's still alive (but frozen and remaining the same since 2006). My early work was reproductions of things from the movies (
Hilldale sign,
Twin/Lone Pine signs, the first ever made r
eproduction of the Enchantment under the sea poster...)
Then I started to make floorplans (
Doc's garage,
McFly house 1985 and
2015, Courthouse square
1955,
1985,
2015,
1885), then I started to redraw the buildings' facades for
1955 and then for
2015. All of that made in bitmap !!!
Through the first years, I added many things like a
Monopoly (!),
playing cards,
hoverboard drawings,
1885 dancing stage plan,
smileys, among many other creations...
In 2002, I got a new software (from my father who is an architect) called Sketchup (long before it was bought by Google). Thanks to it, I learned the existence of vectorial drawing ! :lol So I started modeling the
Courthouse. After that, I decided I would try to make the whole square. The first version of the finished 1955 square was released on my site in january 2004 (wow already 10 years ago :eek !). Images of the latest version of this model are
here.
Many other models followed (you can find some of them on
Turbosquid for free).
After 2006, I made a break of several years when I did not create much things related to BTTF. Anyway, since 2001, I've always been quite an active member on the french forum
RVLF.com forum.
Recently, I've been back in the creation process. I've started reproducing Hill Valley 1885 (
saloon and station) but I'm still waiting for more images to base my work on.
For almost one month now, I've been looking for very tiny details and made lots of investigation to find real stuff used in the trilogy (thar's the interesting part and why I'm here today) Among that are many items from several places (Cafe 80, Lou's Cafe, McFly's house...). The
topic is called "Detail of the day" and I've been able to uncover exclusive details each day since january 28th !
You'll find attached to this message a sample of my recent discoveries (first published on the RVLF.com forum).
I hope it will be usefull and I really would like to initiate great new projects !
See you in the near future !
Patrick