I've been working at a new job now for about a year and a half. It has been a dream come true! We do a lot of seminars and conferences each with it's own theme. With these themes it's my job to make them visually fun and appealing. We did a Hollywood theme a little over a year ago so I'll be posting pics of the props I built for that later. We just wrapped up a Rock Star theme in which I got to build a custom guitar that plays and lights up! (I'd never built a guitar from scratch so that was a blast!) Pics coming of that as well)
Which brings us to this theme... a look at the company's past and future so you KNOW what I wanted to do for this one!... :love
The idea was to take something funny and put it in place of the DeLorean, hence the Vespa! (Plus the CEO had one that he gave me to use!) I had about a week to get this done! I pulled all the bits and bobs I had in my prop junk box and went to town!
First off, it was black so I wanted to replicate that brushed metal look so I used Krylon nickle for the base. I ground up charcoal and a large brush to get the brushed metal look and used a satin clear to seal it. Next came the adding of all the parts and making it look like it worked together. I also sratch built a vent for the back.
For our purposes, the flux capacitor was a different layout than the movie version. (You can see the layout for it in the background of the box pic) It will light up with a chaser pattern similar to the movie. That's been pretty much a full scratch build. The center space will have an object that get's placed there witch will cause it to light up... Sounds odd I know, but it should look cool... I hope!
Now... On with the pics!!
More pics to come! Thanks for looking!!
-B89!
Which brings us to this theme... a look at the company's past and future so you KNOW what I wanted to do for this one!... :love
The idea was to take something funny and put it in place of the DeLorean, hence the Vespa! (Plus the CEO had one that he gave me to use!) I had about a week to get this done! I pulled all the bits and bobs I had in my prop junk box and went to town!
First off, it was black so I wanted to replicate that brushed metal look so I used Krylon nickle for the base. I ground up charcoal and a large brush to get the brushed metal look and used a satin clear to seal it. Next came the adding of all the parts and making it look like it worked together. I also sratch built a vent for the back.
For our purposes, the flux capacitor was a different layout than the movie version. (You can see the layout for it in the background of the box pic) It will light up with a chaser pattern similar to the movie. That's been pretty much a full scratch build. The center space will have an object that get's placed there witch will cause it to light up... Sounds odd I know, but it should look cool... I hope!
Now... On with the pics!!
More pics to come! Thanks for looking!!
-B89!
