Re: The Blue Lamp / 1940s Metropolitan Police Warrant Card
Indy everything you produce just amazes me. Great job!
Indy everything you produce just amazes me. Great job!
Old British Police Warrant Cards
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Re: The Blue Lamp / 1940s Metropolitan Police Warrant Card
Here is my final version of the FBI credentials. This one is blank so that you can make your own book and paste these inside. Just cut the two pages in two and trim as needed. I've also posted the outside so that you can print it out. It is sized to give you about 1/2" around to wrap around your bookbinding board to make your I.D. book before pasting the credentials inside.
It will be some time before I can print out and make mine as I am packing for a move and it will be a few weeks before I have ready access to my tools and supplies.
A special thanks to pauljones33 and Kennyd for your references and to Caplan for your inspiration. Without you three, I would be settling for mediocre instead of striving to improve my skills.:thumbsup
One final question is does anyone know what the outside dimensions should be once completed?
BTW, these pics are reduced by 50% of my files and are flattened so that I can post them here but I will email them to anyone who wants them at full size and layered for Paint.net, sorry don't have photoshop.
Rick
EDIT:I have correct the scale for proper sizing when printed
Here is my final version of the FBI credentials. This one is blank so that you can make your own book and paste these inside. Just cut the two pages in two and trim as needed. I've also posted the outside so that you can print it out. It is sized to give you about 1/2" around to wrap around your bookbinding board to make your I.D. book before pasting the credentials inside.
It will be some time before I can print out and make mine as I am packing for a move and it will be a few weeks before I have ready access to my tools and supplies.
A special thanks to pauljones33 and Kennyd for your references and to Caplan for your inspiration. Without you three, I would be settling for mediocre instead of striving to improve my skills.:thumbsup
One final question is does anyone know what the outside dimensions should be once completed?
BTW, these pics are reduced by 50% of my files and are flattened so that I can post them here but I will email them to anyone who wants them at full size and layered for Paint.net, sorry don't have photoshop.
Rick
EDIT:I have correct the scale for proper sizing when printed
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Thats some nice work Rick, glad it all came out well, the creds are approx 125mm X 165mm opened up. I thought you'd like the attached screen grab from an episode of the X-Files. Similar style of 40's creds but much simpler.
Thats some nice work Rick, glad it all came out well, the creds are approx 125mm X 165mm opened up. I thought you'd like the attached screen grab from an episode of the X-Files. Similar style of 40's creds but much simpler.
thumbsup and thank you for your share
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Caplan you have a good eye my friend. I have made the correction, I also found another misspelling at the same time. I've corrected that as well.
Thanks again,
Rick
Caplan you have a good eye my friend. I have made the correction, I also found another misspelling at the same time. I've corrected that as well.
Thanks again,
Rick
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Ranger23
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Re: The Blue Lamp / 1940s Metropolitan Police Warrant Card
Do you have any other screencaps?
Kennyd
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Re: The Blue Lamp / 1940s Metropolitan Police Warrant Card
If I remember correctly the rear lettering came from a card about the turn of the century. The rear of the 1880s card probably wasn't much different.
Kennyd
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Superb work Indy. Assuming you sell items do you mind if I ask how much you charge for your work ? By PM if you prefer of course.
Is your Foyle card based on a screen used version ? At some point was it changed to a horizontal folding card ?
I've never seen Foyle's War but a friend asked me too make him a couple of cards based on screen caps he sent me. They showed a card very similar to the old Met card.
The later (last ?) series had a different card again, even more similar to the Met. Anyway this is what I came up with.
Earlier series.
Last series.
Here's a similar one I just finished for someone based on the title character from Foyle's War:
We opted for a plain leather cover to cut the cost of making a steel die for the foiling.
Kind regards,
Indy
Superb work Indy. Assuming you sell items do you mind if I ask how much you charge for your work ? By PM if you prefer of course.
Is your Foyle card based on a screen used version ? At some point was it changed to a horizontal folding card ?
I've never seen Foyle's War but a friend asked me too make him a couple of cards based on screen caps he sent me. They showed a card very similar to the old Met card.
The later (last ?) series had a different card again, even more similar to the Met. Anyway this is what I came up with.
Earlier series.
Last series.
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Kennyd
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Another reincarnation of the old Met card. This is based on a (very blurry) screen grab from the opening titles of the last season of the Dixon of Dock Green series in 1976.
The grab only showed the top half of the card. In reality by this date the Met's own crest was in use.
Another reincarnation of the old Met card. This is based on a (very blurry) screen grab from the opening titles of the last season of the Dixon of Dock Green series in 1976.
The grab only showed the top half of the card. In reality by this date the Met's own crest was in use.
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DivineHeresy
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Thanks for sharing more of your amazing work Kennyd.
Neil
Thanks for sharing more of your amazing work Kennyd.
Neil
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Nice one Kenny, I didnt realise Dixon went onto CID even! I am liking your artwork and its great your happy to share it with us paper prop fans! :thumbsup
I think the Met style warrant books were used a lot as the basis for most period police drama's, they used the 60's version of it with 'Durham County Constabulary' on in George Gently.
Nice one Kenny, I didnt realise Dixon went onto CID even! I am liking your artwork and its great your happy to share it with us paper prop fans! :thumbsup
I think the Met style warrant books were used a lot as the basis for most period police drama's, they used the 60's version of it with 'Durham County Constabulary' on in George Gently.
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Sorry Ranger, I grabbed that from an X-Files website a while ago so its all I have, I haven't even seen that episode! lol!
Sorry Ranger, I grabbed that from an X-Files website a while ago so its all I have, I haven't even seen that episode! lol!
Kennyd
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Although some forces did have genuine cards very similar to the Met. Liverpool for example.
Indeed, it's an easy job for a prop maker on a show to just copy one.
Although some forces did have genuine cards very similar to the Met. Liverpool for example.
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Shoot me a PM or e-mail for details.
As for the Foyle card, this was a commissioned piece and the info was all provided. The customer didn't even tell me what it was from, so I was just working with the info he gave me (I googled Folye to figure out what it might be from as I had never seen the series either). I didn't have any screen grabs, just some rough work the customer had done that I basically reworked from scratch.
Kind regards,
Indy
Shoot me a PM or e-mail for details.
As for the Foyle card, this was a commissioned piece and the info was all provided. The customer didn't even tell me what it was from, so I was just working with the info he gave me (I googled Folye to figure out what it might be from as I had never seen the series either). I didn't have any screen grabs, just some rough work the customer had done that I basically reworked from scratch.
Kind regards,
Indy
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I'm thinking in the world of movie and TV the guys making the props just used whatever reference material they had handy. I always wanted to get a card from the TV series called the 'Chief' based in Eastland but so far I haven't got any refs.
These pics are from George Gently I mentioned, you can see how its a 60's Metpol set, rebranded.
I'm thinking in the world of movie and TV the guys making the props just used whatever reference material they had handy. I always wanted to get a card from the TV series called the 'Chief' based in Eastland but so far I haven't got any refs.
These pics are from George Gently I mentioned, you can see how its a 60's Metpol set, rebranded.
Kennyd
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Paul there was a good shot of the Eastland card in one episode. I think it was the first one of the second series.
Paul there was a good shot of the Eastland card in one episode. I think it was the first one of the second series.
Caplan
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Hello guys
here my work with the réplica card of Darth
the id card of Rupert Anderson ( Mississipi Burning )
for me the look it's very better ( true size )
just no happy with my pic of Gene Hackman.
thanks again for your great work and your share Rick.
bests
Caplan
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Hello guys
here my work with the réplica card of Darth
the id card of Rupert Anderson ( Mississipi Burning )
for me the look it's very better ( true size )
just no happy with my pic of Gene Hackman.
thanks again for your great work and your share Rick.
bests
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That's great work Caplan. Again, your replica is top notch and again, I'm Jealous.:lol
That's great work Caplan. Again, your replica is top notch and again, I'm Jealous.:lol
