my Ghostbusters props

DocNewborn · Sep 30, 2018

Excellent Google-Fu!

I will buy a handful of these and try some other chemical solvents.

I remember using a product called airplane stripper a few years ago when I decided to strip and repaint an ALICE frame and a proton pack motherboard.

It was creepy to watch the paint pucker up and darn-near crawl off of the metal.

If nothing else works, sanding will be the fall-back method.

And thanks for the tip about hovering over a pic to see how many views it has. I had never discovered that feature before.

Alex

Jintosh · Sep 30, 2018

I look back at my post where I said I'd help you find this....looks like it took 3 DAYS. But I am happy to have found this. I love your updates, and your attention to detail.

DocNewborn · Oct 1, 2018

Some before and after shots of the Sniffer, showing how it arrived versus how it looks now. (Probe excluded.)

Alex

DocNewborn · Oct 9, 2018

I finally bit the bullet and drilled/countersank the holes in the vector plate.

Not the screws I planned to use, but these were smaller and allowed the vector plate to compress further.

Screwed the hinge to the MDF of the pedal base.

Next step is to attach the 'boot' material (bought from CountSpatula).

After that, the vector plate needs to be painted. And then this project is very close to being done.

Alex

DocNewborn · Oct 10, 2018

Well, if that's not validation, I don't know what is...

I've accidentally left the same gouges in the paint of the base (made by the raised corners of the vector plate while attaching the hinge) as can be seen on one of the screen-used pedals!

Mine:

The one on display at the MoPop in Seattle:

An earlier photo of the same pedal when it was sold at auction:

Alex

DocNewborn · Oct 10, 2018

Hmmm... I wonder which RPF'er who recently helped me source a piece for my Sniffer gets mentioned in this video?

Alex

Jintosh · Oct 10, 2018

:lol All that....and the slider was still a little off ? It's still better than the straight one.

DocNewborn · Oct 11, 2018

Not 'off' really. If I put one on top of the other, they're the exact same shape. But if you compare the edge where it was stamped, the first one is more rounded, while these are very right-angle corners. And for some reason, that olive paint is impossible to get out of the center of the edges... like it's folded in the metal or something. Hard to explain.

No, I'm very happy with the purchase. I was perhaps justifying my laziness at using one of each too much while extemporizing the video. I didn't mean for it to come off like a criticism.

I'm delighted to replace the other straight one.

Alex

DocNewborn · Oct 11, 2018

I got the resistor put in place as closely as possible to the grainy reference pic I had of the pedal on display at the MoPop in Seattle. It should be in a recessed area, but short of totally remaking my pedal base, this was the best I could do for now.

I got the vector plate primed and painted black, then reattached it to the base.

I'm not entirely happy with the boot/coil/spring connection, but it works okay.

The square knobs on the trap front are still just carpet-taped on, but I couldn't resist taking some "all together" pics for the first time.

Alex

DocNewborn · Oct 20, 2018

Over the years, I've tried several times to get a hotel Maid service sign that's a good match to the one seen in Ghostbusters (hanging on the knob of the 'Venkman Burn in Hell' graffitied door).

A while back, I got one that was close, but differed in several subtle ways.

The font on the M and A in 'maid' was wrong, and the wording was slightly different (missing the first 'as'). It also had a hotel watermark at the bottom.

Below is another example of a variation, one that I didn't order, but saved the an auction pic.

Same artwork, but different color.

Also, yet another font for the word 'maid', the 'at once' wording instead of '(as) soon as possible', and a different hotel watermark.

Here's a boosted version of the one in the movie.

I skewed it and deform-stretched it.

And HERE is the auction pic of my latest purchase.

Still not perfect, but the best sample I've found in LOTS of years of searching.

Alex

Jintosh · Oct 20, 2018

That'd be close enough for me except the color is off.

Mike J. · Oct 21, 2018

If you were hell-bent on it, you could scan it, change it to black and white, print it out, laminate it, and then cut it out.

DocNewborn · Oct 23, 2018

I actually came close to doing that a few years ago. I cut and pasted the 'as' from 'as possible' and repositioned the words, faked the correct font on the M and A, etc.

Never actually had it printed though.

Alex

DocNewborn · Oct 24, 2018

Sometimes, when your buddy's Ectomobile is still a work in progress, you just gotta improvise.

Alex

Jintosh · Oct 24, 2018

lol

A Ghost Busters / Flintstones crossover. "The Ghosts of Bedrock." Nice.

DocNewborn · Oct 29, 2018

Continuing with the theme of substitute transportation, we stumbled upon this little gem at a Trunk or Treat event across the river tonight.

The group pic was taken by its owner, seen in this pic below. Somehow it totally slipped my mind to ask his name.

Alex

Jintosh · Oct 29, 2018

Well, if there's an ecto1 and an ecto2 (real ghost busters) Then, maybe this is ecto3.

DocNewborn · Oct 30, 2018

I wrote some fan-fic in the mid-80s that had Venkman calling Spengler on walkie-talkie saying "Ecto-3 to Ecto-7. Egon, old buddy, do you read me?"

Alas, the number I had assigned to Peter for the Hothian allusion was later precluded by both Kenner and some episodes of the RGB cartoon.

https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Ecto-3

Alex

DocNewborn · Nov 16, 2018

Alex

Jintosh · Nov 16, 2018

Dedicated. As always. Nice acquisition.

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