I had a question from a couple of folk asking how I made the stickers, so I thought I would post the answer here instead of re-writing it over.
I saw an image of this prop a while ago in a Bladerunner 2049 prop thread I think. I liked it immediately and wanted to make one. So I saved the image to my pc for future reference. Sorry, I admit I’m a pc picture hoarder.
In my “normal” work I use a cad design program called rhino, which has the ability to paste a background image onto the workspace and allow you to draw various lines on top of the image. I used the image I had saved which I think Adam Savage (please correct me if you know different) took at a comic con somewhere in the world. I trawled my fonts for a stencil typeface which could be modified to make the white numbers, but to no avail. So I set too, tracing around the numbers and lettering. Once I had traced the outline of the details I Skewed the image to make the vertical lines on the numbers correct. Then I marked points in the center of each number as best I could tell and trued up the horizontal lines to get these to line up.
I then took some measurements off the real phone I had to hand, and scaled the image to match the real world phone dimensions. I used the main clasp base on the aluminium top (red bit) as a reference and compared it to the white Zero in the numbers. I then used this as a base to completely re-draw the white numbers with horizontal and vertical lines and as close as I could get to the correct curves on each corner.
The Chinese style writing got a little extra treatment after skewing, mainly with spacing but as a whole they seemed to be almost bob on.
I did the same for each of the white numbers on the ends of the phone, and after a load of time spent, I then found a type face which worked ok after some scaling. I guess I should have looked harder in my fonts before messing about too much. DOOOH!
The M4 sticker on the top was a best guess using the ends of the numbers as a length guide and the top of the phone as well as the strap as a width approximation. I drew the M and the number 4 freehand to give the same feel to the lettering and surrounding box
I then split the details into colour layers with the separate designs and after joining the lines I exported them as a dxf file for plotting. Emailed it to a great auto wrapping specialist and he has cut me some super sticky top notch non fading vinyl beauties.
I have no idea if anyone needs or even wants to know this, and I’ sure there are many grannies out the laughing at my eggy methodology, but hey it seemed to work, so I’m sticking to it !!! ;-)
So there you have it. How to make a set of stickers for a prop which is super cool, too cool to be seen on screen, Ohhh the irony.
