- August 19th, 2013, 12:50 pm#456262
My main inspiration for tackling this one? Jackdoud!
http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... =7&t=20169
http://www.bloody-plastic.com/costumes/keymaster.html
So, last week the GBFans Shop got a bunch of resistors back in stock, and I figured it was time to take the plunge on this one. I ordered one or two for my pack, one for my trap, and several for the 'Keymaster helmet' collander build.
I looked around eBay and found a collander that looked like a close match to the details in the movie.
At first, I saw this one collander and very nearly bought it, but compared it to some of Jackdoud's screencaps (http://s136.photobucket.com/user/jackdo ... t=4&page=1) and saw some of the details were not quite right.
I saw another and rejected it because it had a recurring pattern of two holes being larger than the rest. I realized that the same 'punch' was used for all seven stars on the bowl, and the larger holes were for the feet to be riveted in. Even the stars without feet still have the big holes.
The next time I cued up the movie to check the patterns, I realized the movie prop DID have the larger holes in the same spots of the pattern.
I forced myself to be patient. I located some other examples, including one with no handles, which had this same star pattern and put them in my Watch folder for a couple of days. I studied the movie scene on the 4K Blu-Ray over and over.
Then I spotted this detail:
I knew I could delete the no-handle collander, and that brought the list down to just one or two strong candidates. I compared them and saw that the manufacturer put the handles in at random intervals-- not surprising from a design where they can put the three legs in any of the six stars-- so I selected the auction which I felt had its handles in the closest approximation of where the movie prop's removed handles might have been.
It also had the benefit of being the least expensive one, and was easily $10 less than the non-accurate star pattern collander I'd nearly bought a few days before. Very glad I made myself do a little more homework.
I posted some of the above research pics to my FB page. I normally keep things off my wall until I am ready to break a story, but that day I inadvertently posted them to my main page. Before I could delete them just three minutes later, Harry Bardwell had already commented to ask if that was my next build. We began discussing the project and before I knew it, he had bought one of the other collanders off the 'Bay and we're going to be doing parallel builds!
~~~
Today, the kids are back in school, and I got TWO packages in the mail!
One was from AJ, containing all those resistors for my pack, trap, and collander.
The other was this beauty...
I wasn't prepared for the opening of the box to include a whiff of long-ago Italian food.
So the journey has begun!
The aroma of marinara notwithstanding, I took no time in plopping the collander onto my head to see how it fit.
I even shot some video:
And, I just this moment noticed, the random URL given to the video by YouTube just so happens to end in the letters 'Wok'. Nice pun, universe, nice pun.
~~~
Now then, back to my ongoing search for the elusive Sage m50w resistor. I was mystified by this one for a while, since Jackdoud referred to "one of each type of the large Dale 50ohm resistors" but then I realized my error, even though it hasn't helped me much to locate one.
And I've got a couple of leads on the no-logo Dale RH-50.
Stay tuned!
Alex
http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... =7&t=20169
http://www.bloody-plastic.com/costumes/keymaster.html
So, last week the GBFans Shop got a bunch of resistors back in stock, and I figured it was time to take the plunge on this one. I ordered one or two for my pack, one for my trap, and several for the 'Keymaster helmet' collander build.
I looked around eBay and found a collander that looked like a close match to the details in the movie.
At first, I saw this one collander and very nearly bought it, but compared it to some of Jackdoud's screencaps (http://s136.photobucket.com/user/jackdo ... t=4&page=1) and saw some of the details were not quite right.
I saw another and rejected it because it had a recurring pattern of two holes being larger than the rest. I realized that the same 'punch' was used for all seven stars on the bowl, and the larger holes were for the feet to be riveted in. Even the stars without feet still have the big holes.
The next time I cued up the movie to check the patterns, I realized the movie prop DID have the larger holes in the same spots of the pattern.
I forced myself to be patient. I located some other examples, including one with no handles, which had this same star pattern and put them in my Watch folder for a couple of days. I studied the movie scene on the 4K Blu-Ray over and over.
Then I spotted this detail:
I knew I could delete the no-handle collander, and that brought the list down to just one or two strong candidates. I compared them and saw that the manufacturer put the handles in at random intervals-- not surprising from a design where they can put the three legs in any of the six stars-- so I selected the auction which I felt had its handles in the closest approximation of where the movie prop's removed handles might have been.
It also had the benefit of being the least expensive one, and was easily $10 less than the non-accurate star pattern collander I'd nearly bought a few days before. Very glad I made myself do a little more homework.
I posted some of the above research pics to my FB page. I normally keep things off my wall until I am ready to break a story, but that day I inadvertently posted them to my main page. Before I could delete them just three minutes later, Harry Bardwell had already commented to ask if that was my next build. We began discussing the project and before I knew it, he had bought one of the other collanders off the 'Bay and we're going to be doing parallel builds!
~~~
Today, the kids are back in school, and I got TWO packages in the mail!
One was from AJ, containing all those resistors for my pack, trap, and collander.
The other was this beauty...
I wasn't prepared for the opening of the box to include a whiff of long-ago Italian food.
So the journey has begun!
The aroma of marinara notwithstanding, I took no time in plopping the collander onto my head to see how it fit.
I even shot some video:
And, I just this moment noticed, the random URL given to the video by YouTube just so happens to end in the letters 'Wok'. Nice pun, universe, nice pun.
~~~
Now then, back to my ongoing search for the elusive Sage m50w resistor. I was mystified by this one for a while, since Jackdoud referred to "one of each type of the large Dale 50ohm resistors" but then I realized my error, even though it hasn't helped me much to locate one.
And I've got a couple of leads on the no-logo Dale RH-50.
Stay tuned!
Alex
What a knockabout of pure fun that was!