Blade Runner ID Card Original Print Blocks

[eethan]

No. It's supposed to be used for masking on acetate. So it relies on static. So getting on card stock should be an adventure

Awesome, thanks for your answer.
Yes, it will be an adventure, I can tell you by experience
I personally position them with a scalpel, pushing the corners of the amberlith until they match my cut card. Then glue the photo on top to hold it in place, then I come with a small brush and apply Cléopâtre glue lightly in each corner. After this, I cut everything to final size together, position the badge in the plastic sleeve immediately after and laminate it.
It's a very carefull and slow process but it works well.

I did a whole batch of badges first where I didn't glue the corners of the amberlith, but after all was done and laminated, the round corners of the amberlith were not clean enough, so now, I use the glue technique and it works nicelly. I only put a little in the corners as the glue would be visible if applied on the whole X, it would also be difficult to position with glue on it.

I'm guessing you are gearing up for a run of those, so good luck with this and I'm looking forward to see the result.

If you need help for anything for this project, feel free to ask

 

[PropsToHistory]

So is there a consensus as to what the ID card looks like? I've seen some cards with an "XV" after Deckards name, some without. Some with "Rick" some with just the letter "R"

I know this isn't the correct photo. But I had to make one.

 

[Gregatron]

Jaw-dropping.

 

[eethan]

I went with "Rick Deckard" for my badges, purely because the screen use badge is also using first name in "James Jacobson".
By the way, now that I'm on my computer, this is what I meant with the amberlith corners not being clean when not glued first, on the right:

the original badge has very clean corners.

I'm really loving the grain in the black and flaws around the letters on your try though! very cool to see those made with the actual process and see the flaws appear naturally

 

[drusselmeyer]

1984's Blade Runner?

Otherwise, thanks for posting this!

 

[drusselmeyer]

So anyway, spray adhesive was commonly used to adhere layers of non-adhesive acetates on paper items. Lots of rubber cement was used as well.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Were there many other items like White Dragon menus printed??

 

[PropsToHistory]

Yeah. Mistakes get made. I'm not perfect.

By the time I realized it it had already been published

 

[drusselmeyer]

Btw, nice job in recovering this!

 

[masterjedi322]

Just amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Sean

 

[joberg]

Cannot have enough of those in my life

Original from Tom Southwell collection:

 

[eethan]

Cannot have enough of those in my life

Original from Tom Southwell collection:

If you read the messages in the first page, this is no longer in Tom Southwell collection! pretty cool

 

[Aldarith]

Found today at Earl Hays. 1 of the plethora of props/ephemera found in 107 years of accumulation at the oldest prop-house in the US.

Wow, congratulations on such a cool find!

 

[Lt Washburn]

Are there any current longtime employees/owners at EHP that were working there when Blade Runner was made?

 

[Henry31]

Hasn't noticed myself

 

[PropsToHistory]

Are there any current longtime employees/owners at EHP that were working there when Blade Runner was made?

No. They're all gone. Most have past away.

 

[JamesM242]

PropsToHistory - I'm sure you have been asked this dozens of times already, but any chance of doing a run of these, similar to the 20,000 League's newspaper?

 

[PropsToHistory]

We're trying to work that out with a certain company represented by a mouse.

 

[centech]

In case anyone hasn't seen yet :

 

[timschiro01]

The printing blocks (cuts) will never be sold. Only prints if the owners decide to do so

Oh man, what I wouldn’t do to get one of the prints from this. I hope they decide to sell some! They’d basically be printing money