The suitcase from Fantastic Beasts and how to recognize it
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PotionMistress
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What amazing work!
Samsonite, MOVE OVER!
Samsonite, MOVE OVER!
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Thanks for the kind words!
Using a #31 drill bit, I match drilled the holes in the lid frame. This allows for snugly holding the rivets which will need to be removed when I start work on the lining (after DragonCon!):
The outside is finished - woohoo!
Here's the case with (the in-progress) Percival's overcoat in the back ground. I'm a little too old to pass for Newt.
The outside needs to be "distressed" a little bit. I figure 1 trip as checked baggage on a Delta flight ought to do it. :rolleyes
ATL
Using a #31 drill bit, I match drilled the holes in the lid frame. This allows for snugly holding the rivets which will need to be removed when I start work on the lining (after DragonCon!):
The outside is finished - woohoo!
Here's the case with (the in-progress) Percival's overcoat in the back ground. I'm a little too old to pass for Newt.
The outside needs to be "distressed" a little bit. I figure 1 trip as checked baggage on a Delta flight ought to do it. :rolleyes
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Up until today, the best picture I had of the interior lining was:
It looks to be a fairly bright white with some sort of diamond pattern and then some diagonal gray lines across it.
After searching on-line through hundreds of fabrics, I finally came across this:
I thought this was pretty close and that all I would have to do would be to stencil some gray lines on it, cut it, seam it, and stitch it in. So I bought 3 yards (meters) of it from the UK.
Now... my good friend lynx0099 found this most excellent picture of the inside and the lining:
It looks to be runes arranged in a repeating hex pattern, with brownish diagonal lines, and some faint parallel lines, on a coffee colored background. (Of course the runes are probably necessary to help contain the beasts within). There's no chance I'll ever find this fabric :wacko! The only way that I see of getting anything close to this pattern would be to go through a service something like Spoonflower. But this service requires artwork for a pattern (PNG) and although I'm reasonably good with 2D AutoCAD, Photoshop mystifies me.
I probably will stay with my original fabric, but dip it in kettle of dark coffee and add the brownish lines.:unsure
ATL
It looks to be a fairly bright white with some sort of diamond pattern and then some diagonal gray lines across it.
After searching on-line through hundreds of fabrics, I finally came across this:
I thought this was pretty close and that all I would have to do would be to stencil some gray lines on it, cut it, seam it, and stitch it in. So I bought 3 yards (meters) of it from the UK.
Now... my good friend lynx0099
found this most excellent picture of the inside and the lining:It looks to be runes arranged in a repeating hex pattern, with brownish diagonal lines, and some faint parallel lines, on a coffee colored background. (Of course the runes are probably necessary to help contain the beasts within). There's no chance I'll ever find this fabric :wacko! The only way that I see of getting anything close to this pattern would be to go through a service something like Spoonflower. But this service requires artwork for a pattern (PNG) and although I'm reasonably good with 2D AutoCAD, Photoshop mystifies me
. I probably will stay with my original fabric, but dip it in kettle of dark coffee and add the brownish lines.:unsure
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...and just when I thought I was going to have to settle for 2nd best, it was kindly pointed out to me that images of the lining are rather well illustrated in the FBaWtFT coloring book. I can scale this and see what happens.
Thanks my friend...
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KevinBGoode
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Here ya go, the screen used props on display at warner bros studio tour
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WOW. Thanks very much for sharing the great pictures! Is this at Leavesden? They'll come in handy when I get up the nerve to distress and age my project.:unsure
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KevinBGoode
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Yeah just got back from the Tour. I had a measurement tape with me, but the security gaurd kept on good eye on me so I couldnt get close enough for a measurement.
I have the coloring book and have determined that the liner pattern does repeat - 22 runes/brown lines vertically and 12 runes horizontally.
Also, I tried my hand at etching again. I figured if tried to make 12, one would turn out OK. The middle-right one is usable. This is single sided etching on 0.032" brass.
In the background is part of Seraphina Picquery's costume we're working on. I'll have to start a thread in the costume forum eventually.
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Also, I tried my hand at etching again. I figured if tried to make 12, one would turn out OK. The middle-right one is usable. This is single sided etching on 0.032" brass.
In the background is part of Seraphina Picquery's costume we're working on. I'll have to start a thread in the costume forum eventually.
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I ordered and received the Hufflepuff scarf from ThePhoenixRisesAgain on Etsy
It's very well made and the colors are a really good match.
ATL
It's very well made and the colors are a really good match.
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Still dealing with the lining, but in the meantime I've started working on the Muggle Worthy keylock:
I've cut out the slot. A small piece of .015" brass will fit into that slot as a guide.
The housing is a 1/4" long piece of 7/8" diameter brass tube with the front machined to allow the flag to come out the top and the lever to come out the bottom:
I wish I had a vertical mill to do this work, but all I have is a Dremel and drill press. Keep in mind that this is about the diameter of a US quarter coin.:wacko
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I've cut out the slot. A small piece of .015" brass will fit into that slot as a guide.
The housing is a 1/4" long piece of 7/8" diameter brass tube with the front machined to allow the flag to come out the top and the lever to come out the bottom:
I wish I had a vertical mill to do this work, but all I have is a Dremel and drill press. Keep in mind that this is about the diameter of a US quarter coin.:wacko
ATL
