They're heeeere... A shot of the family. Preproduction Turned Resin bottle with test graphics on the left. Turned wood screen used Slice in the middle and Sceen Used Flip Top Diet Pepsi.
I gotta say, there is not a doubt in my mine that these are screen used bottles now. For the price I paid... damn, these are AWESOME. They are also beat up pieces of c&*p, but I wouldn't expect anything less from legit bottles.
First up, I'm really impressed with the graphics. This is the best shot I could get at the moment showing the labels.
They are all individually cut vinyl graphics. Even the little lettering on the Slice. My own plastics guys can't get his cutter to do stuff this small. I'd love to know just how they did it 20 years ago.
Here is a shot of the Nutritional Info on both backs.
Again, I'm completely at a loss as to how they did it. These are all indivual letters and some are completely missing or faded. Very cool.
You can also see that the slice is indeed turned wood. Infact, the grain is competely noticable under the paint. The paid for the slice is very interesting. It's almost an iridescent flip paint. Red-Orange to an almost Orange Pearl for the highlights. Pretty neat and a bit lighter than the color I guessed at for my replicas.
The Diet Pepsi being a flip bottle is a completely different animal as you can see below. It's not resin at all, but instead VAC-FORMED PLASTIC - just like the clear Pepsi Perfects.
As you can see the years have not been kind to this bottle. However, I have no reason to think the damage is recent. The tape is about as aged as what's on my Preproduction Prototype.
If you saw the auction you saw that the straw was extended out. It can slide back and forth, so I just put it in like it was see on screen. It's just rubber tubing.
The bottles are interesting in that the Diet Pepsi is just a tad bigger than the slice. It's apparent that a wood turning was just split in half to make the vac-tool for the Flip Top Clear and solid Bottles.
Of course now I know exactly how they went together. I suppose I need to start on that Clear Pepsi Perfect Replica now...
Ugh
-Gary