UnusualWizardry
Well-Known Member
9-16-2019 UPDATE:
Hey everyone! Still waiting on the new Camp Know Where patches, but they should be in sometime this week. So, in the meantime, this weekend was all batteries!
So first, the obvious part. The loops. Note: I did not use tan elastic, it's grey, but it appears tan in all these photos. Just warm lighting:
As you can see, I opted for a nice "hand-made" look. I think it really adds to the feel of the whole bag. I think the original is a little more clean-cut than what I ended up with, but I like what I have! The shoulder strap I was able to have sewn on with a machine, but I opted to zig zag stitch the ends by hand. The left pocket was all entirely by hand and let me tell you it was a pain!
Close-ups of the hand stitching:
And here's the finished left pocket. I just stuffed it with some hand towels. Looks great!
I neglected to take a photo of the completed shoulder strap, so I'll have to update later on. Next up though...
So, I actually am doing all this 1.) for fun, thought it would be a cool prop to recreate, but also 2.) I'll be doing a work event Halloween House for kids and we'll be doing Stranger Things. So because I don't know exactly how much we'll be interacting with the kids, I opted early on to have fake prop batteries on the bag. I will eventually buy the proper vintage batteries. But anyways. I've had quite a journey putting together some rough prop batteries if anyone is interested.
I started off by securing some dummy batteries, which was easier said than done. I found some decent AA dummy batteries on eBay that were made of solid metal. Here they are with their tops painted already and then with the finished recreated label:
C batteries were also decently common to find, but harder to find good ones as a base. Finally, when I was about to go with a wooden dowel and a bolt on top, I found these ones covered with green wrapping. I was able to remove the wrapping and am planning to rewrap them with metallic paper to hide the ugly ridge. Here's a rough test of the steps involved. These ones aren't finished yet:
Finally, the 9 volts...ugh. No one. Anywhere. Seems to make dummy 9 volt batteries. So these were the most expensive batteries to make. They had to be 3D printed, fully painted, and then labeled:
And a little look at the label cutting process:
I realize it's quite a lot of trouble to go through considering they don't look awesome, but I didn't want to get any trouble for walking around with actual batteries for this event and what not. Considering that most of them are covered pretty significantly by the elastic. I think they'll do fine.
I'm actually reaching quite close to the finish line at this point. Just have the final patch to attach, the final elastic band, and the fake C batteries. I may be finished with the bag itself this weekend! If I can find a tool roll to attach, I'd love to, but I still have yet to find one that resembles the one in the show very closely.
I'll probably post this weekend again once I've got everything on! Although, in the meantime. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on that bottom elastic loop section from my previous post. I'd love to hear some thoughts.
Hey everyone! Still waiting on the new Camp Know Where patches, but they should be in sometime this week. So, in the meantime, this weekend was all batteries!
So first, the obvious part. The loops. Note: I did not use tan elastic, it's grey, but it appears tan in all these photos. Just warm lighting:
As you can see, I opted for a nice "hand-made" look. I think it really adds to the feel of the whole bag. I think the original is a little more clean-cut than what I ended up with, but I like what I have! The shoulder strap I was able to have sewn on with a machine, but I opted to zig zag stitch the ends by hand. The left pocket was all entirely by hand and let me tell you it was a pain!
Close-ups of the hand stitching:
And here's the finished left pocket. I just stuffed it with some hand towels. Looks great!
I neglected to take a photo of the completed shoulder strap, so I'll have to update later on. Next up though...
So, I actually am doing all this 1.) for fun, thought it would be a cool prop to recreate, but also 2.) I'll be doing a work event Halloween House for kids and we'll be doing Stranger Things. So because I don't know exactly how much we'll be interacting with the kids, I opted early on to have fake prop batteries on the bag. I will eventually buy the proper vintage batteries. But anyways. I've had quite a journey putting together some rough prop batteries if anyone is interested.
I started off by securing some dummy batteries, which was easier said than done. I found some decent AA dummy batteries on eBay that were made of solid metal. Here they are with their tops painted already and then with the finished recreated label:
C batteries were also decently common to find, but harder to find good ones as a base. Finally, when I was about to go with a wooden dowel and a bolt on top, I found these ones covered with green wrapping. I was able to remove the wrapping and am planning to rewrap them with metallic paper to hide the ugly ridge. Here's a rough test of the steps involved. These ones aren't finished yet:
Finally, the 9 volts...ugh. No one. Anywhere. Seems to make dummy 9 volt batteries. So these were the most expensive batteries to make. They had to be 3D printed, fully painted, and then labeled:
And a little look at the label cutting process:
I realize it's quite a lot of trouble to go through considering they don't look awesome, but I didn't want to get any trouble for walking around with actual batteries for this event and what not. Considering that most of them are covered pretty significantly by the elastic. I think they'll do fine.
I'm actually reaching quite close to the finish line at this point. Just have the final patch to attach, the final elastic band, and the fake C batteries. I may be finished with the bag itself this weekend! If I can find a tool roll to attach, I'd love to, but I still have yet to find one that resembles the one in the show very closely.
I'll probably post this weekend again once I've got everything on! Although, in the meantime. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on that bottom elastic loop section from my previous post. I'd love to hear some thoughts.
