revision of Indiana Jones Lost Journal

[GaryDax7]

Firstly, Thank you to all who have posted advice, links, resources and images over the course of the 10 years this thread has been going.
I'm kinda new to this stuff, and for now I'm just taking the Lost Journal and reprinting/retyping/rewriting the inserts as closely to what @IndyMagnoli did back in 2008.
One of the pictures that is evading me so far is of Young Indy with Pancho Villa. I have a placeholder for now along with a rough version of the Dear Dad letter.
I would greatly appreciate any help the community can provide; what books to check, links, resources that have evaded me so far.
Thank you in advance.

 

[katmax]

These are the versions of this image I have. Hopefully one will be useful to you.

 

[Indy Magnoli]

 

[GaryDax7]

These are the versions of this image I have. Hopefully one will be useful to you.

Thank you so much!

 

[GaryDax7]

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From the man himself! Thank you

 

[crisurdiales]

I've been compiling a extended version of the Lost journal and I've finished adding pages for all the games. I've also introduced some pages for the spear adventure scene and the beginning at the dial of destiny before going into The Crystal Skull. I still need to age the pages, but here they are. They match the official chronology, as far as I could check. These are the extra pages I've done so far. I've tried to follow the journal style.

 

[Draco Wolfsbane]

I've been compiling a extended version of the Lost journal and I've finished adding pages for all the games. I've also introduced some pages for the spear adventure scene and the beginning at the dial of destiny before going into The Crystal Skull. I still need to age the pages, but here they are. They match the official chronology, as far as I could check. These are the extra pages I've done so far. I've tried to follow the journal style.

Very awesome, thank you for sharing these!!

 

[MichaelFuji]

crisurdiales Really really impressive and truly fits Indy’s journaling style

Would you share the source of your picture of Indy, Wombat and Basil from the last page of the journal?

 

[crisurdiales]

crisurdiales Really really impressive and truly fits Indy’s journaling style

Would you share the source of your picture of Indy, Wombat and Basil from the last page of the journal?

Sure, from right here in the Paper Props forum: Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny

 

[katmax]

I've been compiling a extended version of the Lost journal and I've finished adding pages for all the games. I've also introduced some pages for the spear adventure scene and the beginning at the dial of destiny before going into The Crystal Skull. I still need to age the pages, but here they are. They match the official chronology, as far as I could check. These are the extra pages I've done so far. I've tried to follow the journal style.

Wow that looks really good. Some nice art work there too.

 

[crisurdiales]

Wow that looks really good. Some nice art work there too.

Thank you! I did something like this with my Ravencroft journal too

 

[crisurdiales]

Hello again,
I've photoshopped these two pictures for my Dial of Destiny journal. I'm leaving them here in case anyone is interested. One is Antonio Banderas as frogman and the other is Ford inserted in a Hunter College pic.

 

[katmax]

How's the progress on the new Lost journal? Any new updates on it?

I've finally finished my version of it. Seemed like it would never end sometimes. Magnoli's blank books are BIG. 300+ pages. Here's just a few. Goes from 1908 to 1939 and ends with Last Crusade.

 

[MichaelFuji]

Nice. Katmax. Are you going to be making a run of that journal?

Don’t think he will do that. Seems like it took him ages to finish it.
Besides, this is handmade stuff and the basis is Magnolis diary. To make a run you would need to go either „Holt style“ = hand write each diary or disassemble each diary to be able to print the single pages.
A lot of work either way.
At least it would be for me.

That being said, katmax would you be willing to share the sources you used for your diary or maybe even the chronological order of the pages?

 

[katmax]

Nice. Katmax. Are you going to be making a run of that journal?

I've made 3 copies and have agreed to a 4th and no more after that. This is a massive amount of work. Its all hand written, painted etc. Inserts are mostly real as well so its pretty expensive. Very few would want to pay for it and as it is I am not really paid for the time that's gone into the project.

Pages like the stained glass window is hand painted watercolour. The Field service postcard is genuine WWI. The tickets for venice are vintage period ones I sourced and and there's also a clutch of genuine period bank notes scattered through the book. This is not cookie cutter. None of these 3 books are exactly alike.

 

[katmax]

That being said, katmax would you be willing to share the sources you used for your diary or maybe even the chronological order of the pages?

sources.....
* Put together an Indy time line to work out what stories I needed to find. Then worked out what I could actually fit in the book. I realised quickly I'd have to make some hard decisions and dropped all the marvel comic stories.
* Watched the DVD set of young Indy and watched the documentaries
* Read Indy novels and picked out the bits I needed for the diaries. (these fill in the years 1922-1934)
* Read the comics I'd decided would go in.
* I also wanted to use the Forbidden Eye as its a direct sequel to Temple of Doom and it has a very cool map attached.
* Used Lost Diary as the master for some sections and built around and added my own as I went along.

I'm not sure what sources you are after? You can do these diaries any way you want. I will say the Magnoli paper is very good. I've seen other books and the paper is not so good. The paper in the Magnoli diaries holds both pencil, ink and watercolour well. I wrote this all up using nib pens of different colours and thicknesses as nobody would use the same pen over so many years.

I added in a few autographs to Indy from some of the famous people he met over the years as one way to tell a story without taking up too many pages.

 

[JamesM242]

Outstanding work, katmax!

 

[MichaelFuji]

sources.....
* Put together an Indy time line to work out what stories I needed to find. Then worked out what I could actually fit in the book. I realised quickly I'd have to make some hard decisions and dropped all the marvel comic stories.
* Watched the DVD set of young Indy and watched the documentaries
* Read Indy novels and picked out the bits I needed for the diaries. (these fill in the years 1922-1934)
* Read the comics I'd decided would go in.
* I also wanted to use the Forbidden Eye as its a direct sequel to Temple of Doom and it has a very cool map attached.
* Used Lost Diary as the master for some sections and built around and added my own as I went along.

I'm not sure what sources you are after? You can do these diaries any way you want. I will say the Magnoli paper is very good. I've seen other books and the paper is not so good. The paper in the Magnoli diaries holds both pencil, ink and watercolour well. I wrote this all up using nib pens of different colours and thicknesses as nobody would use the same pen over so many years.

I added in a few autographs to Indy from some of the famous people he met over the years as one way to tell a story without taking up too many pages.

Thanks man. Appreciate your generosity.

 

[katmax]

Just curious, Katmax do you have a pdf version of the Journal?

No.... This is all hand done and not electronic. I've no way to make a pdf of these books. There's also inserts and letters etc re-created from the TV show that you probably won't see anywhere else.

 

[MichaelFuji]

Just out of curiosity katmax , why have you made 3 of these journals?
Were the first 2 some proof of concepts?