Blade Runner Deckard Sedan

[jargonking]

Getting close to finishing...still can't decide on lighting the rear lights...very little room even for SMD's and not much opportunity to hide the feeds....
Anyway, here's the rear license plate installed...



The only other decal to apply was the red/white circle on the roof....the decals are by Cartograf and respond well to Microsol. Still some touching in to do on the window rubbers....



Rear view....note the two pipes going into the 'intake' on the roof, these are closer to the real car and not how they are shown in the kit instructions. A light spirit wash was applied made up of used thinners and MIG 'Starship Filth' oil colour. The overall colour of the Sedan appears much redder in these pics than to the eye....I'll get some done in daylight once it's finished (and it's stopped raining!)



Nearly there.....

[jargonking]

More scale insanity....the detail in Blade Runner is staggering...Ridley Scott went to the trouble of getting the art department to create magazines to populate a news stand which is barely glimpsed in the final film.
I thought it would be fun to have some of these on the passenger seat so found the images online and shrank them before printing them off. A copy of Finescale Modeller gave me the dimensions of a typical US magazine size....275mm x 210mm which equates to 11.46mm x 8.75mm at 1/24 scale.
Here's the finished articles...I've not pictured the third mag, delightfully titled 'Krotch', to spare any sensitivities here....



They have back covers too, not that you'll see them, featuring Japanese drinks adverts...note the Johnnie Walker ad which is a brand featured in the movie...



Here they are on the seat....



I'm now thinking he should have a briefcase too.....

[jargonking]

Another couple of hours at the computer resulted in an A4 sheet of generic decals to be used on upcoming projects, in particular a Police bike....



They were printed using a basic Canon printer onto clear decal paper and the quality is pretty decent...just have to remember that what appears white is in fact clear so they need to go on a white background....



Here are some alternative license plates....

[Gregers]

SWEET. This build is looking superb. Nice work on the decals too.

All the best.

Greg

[jargonking]

Fresh in today from Randy Cooper....a superb resin diorama base.....

This is it straight out of the box with no cleaning up....



It's based on the building where Batty and Leon stand watching Deckard and Gaff search the apartment at 1187 Hunterwasser. The columns and door are really finely detailed and the parts extremely well cast...



Close up of the doorway detailing...



Detail on the pillar....



I'm intending to light the two large screens above the canopy and also add some lights to the door. I'm also going to extend the roadway out in front...

[jargonking]

The diorama base as it comes is great but I wanted to make some minor adjustments...
Firstly, the pillars were too close to the door for my taste...



I built a small section of additional flooring from sheet styrene to allow the rear wall to move back....





This gives a greater gap from the wall to the pillars....



I also wanted to add downlights to the underside of the canopy to illuminate the entrance. I had a slight issue with the canopy piece as the thickness wasn't constant along it's length. If I was building the kit stock then this would be virtually unnoticeable but it was a problem with the lighting in mind....



I overcame it by glueing a strip of styrene along the underside of the front edge....



I then built up the underside with strips of increasing thickness...



Holes were carefully drilled through the canopy to house the LED downlights....



A piece of styrene sheet forms the new underside of the canopy...this is deeper than the original piece to allow for the rear wall being pushed back.
I obtained these brass portholes from my local model shop....



They are rebated on the back to allow them to drop into a pre-drilled hole...



And here they are fitted....



I've also started fitting out the two roof-mounted advertising signs for lighting. I attached a strip of styrene around the inside edges to allow a transparent sign to be dropped in....note also the foil backing to reflect the light forwards...

[jargonking]

Incidentally, I'll be at the South Cheshire Militaire in Crewe this Sunday 24th Feb on the SFM:UK stand. I'll have the Sedan and various other pieces on show so if you're passing then say hello...

[Ian]

There's some great work going on here.

[jargonking]

Ha, just realised I've been placing the pillars upside down which explains the fit problems....D'oh!

I need to start following instructions even though the kit only has six parts!

[jargonking]

A little more progress with the diorama....

The main elements are painted and partially weathered...still some detail painting to do around the door and the various bits of ducting....





The underside of the canopy....I painted this with a rust red enamel and as soon as it was dry oversprayed it with an acrylic red which reacted with the first coat to give a crackled, distressed look...just what I was after.
I inserted six 5mm white LED's into the downlights then filled up the rest of the hole with epoxy resin that dried a milky white...



Here they are lit....



And placed in situ....



Here's a couple of moody night shots in the dark....

[Old_Tonto]

Oh I like that, great stuff.

Keep the images coming.

[jargonking]

Nearly there with the diorama....problem is I keep thinking of things to add...

I've more or less finished the door piece after a lot of painting...remember this is a single piece of resin....



I found some Japanese posters and newspapers on Google and shrunk them to scale before printing them off...they were then glued to the wall using white glue and weathered...



Close up of the posters....



I can't read Japanese so apologies if they are upside down :p...



The door received two Japanese characters at the top and some fibre optics at the centre...hard to see in this pic but quite bright in reality...



I also made my own copy of the Los Angeles Times ( it's dated 3rd November 2019) with a suitable headline from just prior to the events in the movie....



Also printed are some actual signs from the movie....



More soon....

[jargonking]

An hour in front of the computer produced this cut out appliance box....



Assembled and weathered....note the product description, they've moved on from microwaves....



In situ on the pavement....

[JamesPerrin]

The attention to detail is gobsmacking!

[jargonking]

Finally got the top wall in place with the screens....I've been playing around with japanese adverts downloaded from Google and shrunk to fit the screens...here's a Sapporo beer one....



The flash washes out a lot of the effect...here's a shot in natural light...



Here's the other screen with a girl advertising a herbal drink...



And in the dark....note that the images are only printed on paper...I'm going to experiment printing onto drafting film which I believe is what ParaGrafix use for their film inserts...I might also try backing them with EL sheet rather than LED's....