Collektor
Sr Member
After waiting some time for all the parts to arrive, I finally assembled and completed my build of Chew's eyeball container from Blade Runner. The bulk of this build was found parts, with only the optic tissue being sculpted with Apoxie Sculpt over a 20mm plastic eyeball. To achieve the effect of the containers being cold, I first scoured the insides of both the yellow and clear boxes with a scotch-brite pad to give it a frosted appearance I omitted scouring the bottom of the box as I planned to light the prop from below and didn't want too much diffusion of the light. I sprayed some frost crystal effects spray on the insides of the boxes. After it set up it gave the appearance of ice crystals contained inside the unit.
The yellow box was mounted to the top of the clear box with double sided permanent bond tape. The whole arrangement was then similarly bonded to a 5 inch square led base that has something like 9 white leds. This was one of the more difficult parts to find as most led bases are color shifting and not solid white. I chose to go with a battery operated base as I wanted this prop to be self contained and not have a cord sticking out of it. Add a set of rechargable batteries and done.
The sample vial was a sterile vial, that I filled with a syringe using some water and So Strong red to color it. The eye and vial were hot glued in the box, then I poured a layer of Encapso-K silicone to simulate the water effect. I noticed when it dried whatever fumes it released evaporated a bit of the frost effect in some spots but not too badly. I was pretty impressed with the Encapso-K, it has a 24 hour cure time, but there was zero bubble entrapment and didn't require any degassing prior to mixing and pouring.
For the markings I had to hunt around to find a print shop that would do it without charging either an arm and a leg or requiring a ridiculous number of units to be printed. I was originally going to go with transparent stickers, but finally decided to use static cling vinyl stickers. I wound up making a sheet with multiple decals and then had the whole sheet printed. Once it arrived I just cut out the ones I needed from the sheet, leaving me with extras should I lose one or need to replace one. The vinyl was also a thin enough gauge that you can bare see any of the edges in some spots, it was about as thick as a sheet of paper. On the back of the container I used Tom Southwell's unused graphic from the film which details the size, color, diameter, ect.
Thanks for looking.
The yellow box was mounted to the top of the clear box with double sided permanent bond tape. The whole arrangement was then similarly bonded to a 5 inch square led base that has something like 9 white leds. This was one of the more difficult parts to find as most led bases are color shifting and not solid white. I chose to go with a battery operated base as I wanted this prop to be self contained and not have a cord sticking out of it. Add a set of rechargable batteries and done.
The sample vial was a sterile vial, that I filled with a syringe using some water and So Strong red to color it. The eye and vial were hot glued in the box, then I poured a layer of Encapso-K silicone to simulate the water effect. I noticed when it dried whatever fumes it released evaporated a bit of the frost effect in some spots but not too badly. I was pretty impressed with the Encapso-K, it has a 24 hour cure time, but there was zero bubble entrapment and didn't require any degassing prior to mixing and pouring.
For the markings I had to hunt around to find a print shop that would do it without charging either an arm and a leg or requiring a ridiculous number of units to be printed. I was originally going to go with transparent stickers, but finally decided to use static cling vinyl stickers. I wound up making a sheet with multiple decals and then had the whole sheet printed. Once it arrived I just cut out the ones I needed from the sheet, leaving me with extras should I lose one or need to replace one. The vinyl was also a thin enough gauge that you can bare see any of the edges in some spots, it was about as thick as a sheet of paper. On the back of the container I used Tom Southwell's unused graphic from the film which details the size, color, diameter, ect.
Thanks for looking.
Nicely done....
