Doctor Who - Letter

I think the Doctor one will be the easy River and Canton will be hard, since you can't see the whole thing. Know if I can just find blue envelope.
 
I step away for a while and I return to some awesome reference pictures :D

Thanks for this.
 
Hi guys,

I saw the Brilliant Book today, and took some pics too. I know some of these are copies of what weve got, but I purposefully did some close ups to try and get a better look at some of the stamps and the postmarks. I did notice the post mark is dated 10th August 1973.

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Awesome reference pictures you guys. I think I'm gonna open up photoshop and get started on this come Monday.

It's interesting that the postmark for Canton is 73. Makes me wonder if we'll see him again.

Think I'm gonna have to pick up The Brilliant Book from this year AND last year. I got last years encyclopedia book but didn't get TBB :)

EIT: Apparently I did get last years TBB lol. Is this years book strictly Season 6?
 
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Ah, even more reference pics!

Trust me, as soon as I've got this week out of the way (making arrows and finishing my Halloween costume - both for my archery club) I'm getting right back on this project!
 
Im still wrestling with this guys, Im back on it, but am struggling to sort the lettering, I did buy some stickers, but they didnt look right, and my printer doesnt print in white. anyone got any ideas?
 
Ood sigma said:
Im still wrestling with this guys, Im back on it, but am struggling to sort the lettering, I did buy some stickers, but they didnt look right, and my printer doesnt print in white. anyone got any ideas?
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Probably not a great solution but could you print the blue (of the envelope) onto a white paper and leave the lettering as negative space? This way it would stay white (like the paper) while the rest of the envelope would be the blue color. Might look crap but might be worth trying as a possible option.
 
This is one of the things holding me up. I'd love to know how they did these props.
I doubt my printer would get a truly even blue and it would sure as heck use a lot of ink, but I'm having trouble coming up with another way of having white lettering....

Unless... hmm.. off to google the possibility of white printer ink.
 
I think that's the only way to do it at home. Maybe Kinkos or some online service could do it as one big sheet, then fold the envelope yourself. Like you said, it'd use a load of ink to do one, let alone all 4 of them (with inserts). Either way, it is definitely a printed font as the letters are all the same. I assumed they did it the way I mentioned because some of the "E" letters don't have the little hole in the top and others do. I assumed that was ink bleeding or something.

Also, I was looking at the reference images today. I was going to look into buying all of the stamps that I could and then I realized that they're not even stamps. I think the Royal Mail Queen head stamps are but most of the others look like printed squares, which were then cut with those special craft scissors. Some of them even look like the just have messy, rushed, notched triangles in them instead of the circular stamp edge.

You can definitely buy stamp edge scissors though so that would save a lot of money just printing/cutting the stamps instead of buying them all.
 
A white laser printer transfer foil might work well and it would do the circley jobs on the two alien letters as well.
 
Ood sigma said:
Im still wrestling with this guys, Im back on it, but am struggling to sort the lettering, I did buy some stickers, but they didnt look right, and my printer doesnt print in white. anyone got any ideas?
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an ALPS printer will do it. I've done several light print on dark paper type things with my MD5000.

unfortunately they're not made anymore (nor are they supported.) But there are plenty of cartridges out there.

I'm thinking either white, or metallic silver for this particular project.


I'm sure the envelopes done for the show were done on a traditional offset press... no home printer can replicate that. The Alps is a close exception, but it won't be perfect.
 
Just been getting into Doctor Who and finally caught up to Season 6.

So how is this project going? Anyone get anywhere? Can I kickstart a revival of this thread???
 
I got as far as having all the necessary stationary and stamps (barring those you can't see on Canton Everett Delaware III's envelope), just waiting on some laser printer foils and I'll knock my set up. This got left by the wayside like so many of my projects, I still have 2 rayguns to complete.

View attachment 91523 View attachment 91522 just a couple of little things, there may be more later.
 
Foils? Is that so you can print the white text on the blue?
What with one thing and another, I've not got any further with this myself (no luck in getting blue envelopes and no method for printing white) but I'm interested to see how yours turn out.
 
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