Stranger things

[RafalFett]

Indeed, you already shared that poster. I usually check my downloaded files before I post, but it seems I forgot to download the images from that post.

 

[ribeiroorafael]

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[UnusualWizardry]

Or maybe this sticker could be from Cult of Set Holy Symbols (Conan the Barbarian)?

Personally I'm not seeing two snakes, but a sort of devil looking guy with big horns

 

[UnusualWizardry]

Hey everyone! I am very busy for a few weeks here, but found the time tonight to get this up for you all.

Here are all of Max's Stickers from her Season 2 Skateboard!
Special Thanks to ribeiroorafael for helping to identify some of them - I know he's been very eager for me to get these posted.

These are scans of the actual vintage stickers the designs were sourced from for the most part (two of them were from redbubble).

Like Nancy's Trapper Keeper - you mostly need to use reprinted scans for maximum accuracy.
For example, hyper neon stickers look far more desaturated when scanned - this matches how these look in the show - plus, one of them was shiny originally, but after scanning in those areas appear black - which matches how the sticker appears in the show.

One notable exception is the final Madrid sticker seen below.
This one appears to be the original sticker in the show, as it is printed on transparency, like it is in the show.

Below are all the stickers presented as individual png files at 300dpi and shaped and sized correctly for how they appear on her board (for example, the Wizard and Whale stickers were greatly enlarged for her board).










I used these files for my replica of her skateboard and I am thrilled with how it turned out!
(Again, besides the original Madrid sticker)



Now, as discussed earlier in this thread, the modern replicas of her board are not perfect.
Specifically, the design is a bit too large so the scaling of everything related to the hardware is off.

Therefore, I had to compromise on exact placement in relation to the design - especially near the top (my board has the design scaled up and more offset towards the top). But I did my best and decided, in this case, to just deal with the inaccuracies in the placement relating to the design.

Hope everyone enjoys!

 

[RafalFett]

These are great! Thanks for sharing!

 

[UnusualWizardry]

These are great! Thanks for sharing!

No problem. If I ever got ahold of her Season 3 board + stickers I'll try to share those ones too.

 

[RafalFett]

Here are some props identified by ribeiroorafael and/or UnusualWizardry; some of them were scanned by a 3rd party, I just cleaned up/enhanced, in some cases even the text was fully redone with accurate or close to accurate fonts. Other props were image downloads from various online sources and suffered the same clean up/enhance routine with the text fully redone:

Hi-res here ==> Britain Wales Poster.png & Britain Scotland Poster.png.

The difference between the versions is: v1 cleaned up scans and v2 fully vectorized.


Hi-res here ==> Let's Be Pals Poster.png


Hi-res here ==> Snap-on 86 Calendar Cover.png & Snap-on 86 Calendar Mar-Apr.png & Snap-on 86 Calendar Jul-Aug.png.



(books are in the 1st screenshot between Dustin and Lucas, in the 2nd screenshot on the shelve, lower left corner).

 

[UnusualWizardry]

I had shared this replica I completed with ribeiroorafael and he requested I share the design, so here we are.

The Chocolate Pudding label from Season 1.


If you print this on some glossy sticker paper, you can cut it out and wrap it around a matching Vienna Sausage can, just like Lynda Reiss did for the show.

Here is my own replica made using this file:


Some reference images:




Enjoy!

 

[RafalFett]

Thanks!

 

[optimus51]

Hey hey,

Because it was Stranger Things Day last week, I finally decided to print out some of the props here, and assembled them on a board. I believe many are from UnusualWizardry and RafalFett , but I would just like to thank ALL the contributors to this forum. The number and quality of paper props that have been posted here is amazing. It is really heartening to see that there is still so much enthusiasm for Stranger Things... we can only hope that Season 5 will be here soon!

 

[OasisSupernova]

Hey hey,

Because it was Stranger Things Day last week, I finally decided to print out some of the props here, and assembled them on a board. I believe many are from UnusualWizardry and RafalFett , but I would just like to thank ALL the contributors to this forum. The number and quality of paper props that have been posted here is amazing. It is really heartening to see that there is still so much enthusiasm for Stranger Things... we can only hope that Season 5 will here soon!

Looks great. Great idea!

 

[KJohan]

Thanks to ribeiroorafael and his friend (who scanned the files), I can now add the Secret Russian Content to my Doctor Collector Box:
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And here are the files slightly cleaned up (mostly the envelope and Yuri's pilot card) and the Key Blueprint stitched together:
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The envelope should be printed on a thicker paper (around 150-180 gr); the flat file measures 262 x 424 mm, while fully closed is 232 x 172 mm. The second file have some extra flaps and can be printed on 3 pages of A4 or LTR paper.

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Yuri's Pilot Card can be made using the template printed and glued on a thicker cardboard, then cut along the contour; the middle lines are for folding. The cover is then glued centered on the cardboard and the extra material is cut, glued and fold to the inside of the card:
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(Note that these images are from the Loki thread about the making of the Official Handbook replica)

The Inside print is then glued again centered to the inside of the card. The finished card measures 210 x 74 mm when opened.

The Key Blueprint stitched together with minimal cleaning. Some of the writing and details are crispier, but some areas are blurry or lo-res. I don't know if the file is that way or in the scanning process the image had suffered some changes (maybe UnusualWizardry can confirm this on most files from the Secret Russian Content):
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This blueprint has only 150 DPI, but a better version can be downloaded from my Google Drive along with the other files (the envelope is also in better resolution, not necessarily better quality) ==> Secret Russian Content - Google Drive. The size of the blueprint is around 550 x 392 mm.

And the pages of Hopper and the Demogorgon (higher DPI in the shared folder):
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These should be printed on a standard A4 (297 x 210 mm) on both sides.

Again, huge thanks to ribeiroorafael and his friend for the scans, which is the foundation of these files.

Letters and words of the native Russian language!

 

[UnusualWizardry]

Hey everyone. It has been awhile. Lots of big life changes - hopefully for the better that will allow me more time to get back to my Stranger Things collection.

Today I have a LOT. Been slowly working at these for awhile and finally have a good amount of them that I am ready to share.
So here we go! Hopper's Hawkins Lab Research Documents... Part 1

NOTE: Please do not take my custom replicas posted here and resell them. If I find any of my free replicas for sale, I will remove all of them from this thread.

For this first post we're focusing on the Season 1 documents that Hopper prints at the library, keeps at his house, and brings to Joyce when they team up. Several of the articles were done custom for the show, but some of the filler articles were pre-existing articles from the New York Times related to MK-ULTRA. For those who don't know, that is roughly what the show is based on and was a potential title originally.

My work here was to recreate the custom articles in great detail and also make them look as if they had been scanned in and reprinted.
Lots of texture and detailing to get the look how I wanted! But anyway, here they are (along with reference images from the show - most of which have had their perspective quickly altered to try and "flatten" the pages for comparisons sake.)

"MKULTRA EXPOSED"



"TERRY IVES SUING"


MISC "MKULTRA" and OTHER ARTICLES






Misc Articles Reference:






More Coming Soon Shortly!

 

[greenmachines]

Hey everyone. It has been awhile. Lots of big life changes - hopefully for the better that will allow me more time to get back to my Stranger Things collection.

Today I have a LOT. Been slowly working at these for awhile and finally have a good amount of them that I am ready to share.
So here we go! Hopper's Hawkins Lab Research Documents... Part 1

For this first post we're focusing on the Season 1 documents that Hopper prints at the library, keeps at his house, and brings to Joyce when they team up. Several of the articles were done custom for the show, but some of the filler articles were pre-existing articles from the New York Times related to MK-ULTRA. For those who don't know, that is roughly what the show is based on and was a potential title originally.

My work here was to recreate the custom articles in great detail and also make them look as if they had been scanned in and reprinted.
Lots of texture and detailing to get the look how I wanted! But anyway, here they are (along with reference images from the show - most of which have had their perspective quickly altered to try and "flatten" the pages for comparisons sake.)

"MKULTRA EXPOSED"
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"TERRY IVES SUING"
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MISC "MKULTRA" and OTHER ARTICLES
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Misc Articles Reference:
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More Coming Soon Shortly!

So, I really shouldn't be proof reading these? Because whatever mistakes are there in the original?

 

[UnusualWizardry]

Slight detour before returning to Hopper's Hawkins Lab Documents...
In Part 2, let's talk about that Photo of a Russian Agent that Dr. Brenner shows to 011 during Season 1.

NOTE: Please do not take my custom replicas posted here and resell them. If I find any of my free replicas for sale, I will remove all of them from this thread.

Reference Image


I couldn't shake the feeling that this looked just ever so slightly off like the actor's head had been added to this photo.
So, I began digging through some historical photos. Turns out - this is a pre-existing photo. From Prague Secret Police Surveillance...


They simply cropped out the woman and added the actor's head... and of course that super cool border.
After getting this far, I knew I had to finish it off. The border is Polaroid Type 55 Film Frame.
There's plenty of them around for free and on stock sites. After digging and digging and digging, I just could not find the right one!
But I did manage to find another image with an identical border.
Turns out it had been processed through a software called "Exposure X5" - after downloading and poking around, I found the border!


So after some work matching the images texture and making some tweaks to the border itself - here we are!
A near perfect replica of the Russian Spy Photo:


This prints at 8.5" x 10" on glossy paper!

 

[UnusualWizardry]

So, I really shouldn't be proof reading these? Because whatever mistakes are there in the original?

I took great care in assuring the text on the custom articles matched what was seen on screen.
That being said, I assume there could be a typo I made uniquely. But typically, there are typos present in newspaper article props all the time.
Repeated words, columns, and just plain typos definitely happen in the originals. Feel free to proof-read those, but make sure to compare to the originals - they certainly could have typos. And if the typo is on screen I will match it.

The rest of the articles in the post though are pre-existing and pulled from New York Times or other real news sources.
The article copies I got perfectly match the files used on screen, so any typos in those would've been present in the original real-life article most likely. I did not alter the text on those.

In fact, there is at least one typo. In the first Misc Article "Drug Tests by C.I.A." in the first line of the second column - there is the word "ttsts" instead of "tests". This was present in the original article.

 

[UnusualWizardry]

Part 3! Back to Hopper's Hawkins Lab Research Documents

NOTE: Please do not take my custom replicas posted here and resell them. If I find any of my free replicas for sale, I will remove all of them from this thread.

In Season 2, 011 finds a box labeled "Hawkins Lab" stowed away in Hopper's cabin. She starts going through it and covers the floor in various pages before opening a folder on Terry Ives.

As with the Season 1 articles, there are some custom-made for the show and some pre-existing material used as filler. There are also some articles from Season 1 that make a re-appearance in these scenes. So, I continued with my work, making these feel like they were scanned and reprinted.

I should also mention that custom article text sometimes recurs in multiple unique articles. This allowed me to fill in the gaps accurately in some cases where the text is never fully seen on screen but context showed that text was reused from other articles.

"Indiana Woman sues D.O.E."




"TERRY IVES SUING" (Version 3)


I also wanted to tackle the photo present in the Terry Ives folder of Dr. Brenner and Terry Ives:


I decent version of this photo is included in the making-of book Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down.
I don't use AI, I always feel it comes out too clean or too wonky for these sorts of things.
So, with a little work and combining that scan with screen captures here's what I came up with that I am very happy with.

It prints nicely at 4.25" x 6" on glossy paper.

Part 4 coming up!

 

[UnusualWizardry]

Aaand Part 4! This wraps up the actual printable props, but there's still one more thing after this...

To add filler to the absolutely numerous pages seen strewn about on the ground while 011 examines Hopper's Hawkins Lab Documents that props team turned to pre-existing material yet again! But this time, instead of news articles, they utilized tons of CIA Documents relating to MKULTRA.
These are too cool - they naturally have such a great texture and fantastic look to them. These were pretty much printed "as is" to be used in the scene. Though it does seem like, for fun, the added some redactions to some of the cleaner documents.

Below are the ones I was able to confirm appear in the show (and a reference image) though I feel like I have confirmed at least one or two more that I may need to come back and add to this list later.
After all the images, I have linked to the sources that contain these pages. If you like, you could just print the whole documents to use as filler for displays.














As promised, here are links to the original PDFs that contain these pages and more.

• extrasensory_perception_part01.pdf (from the FBI Records Vault)
• CIA Document Mori ID 190691.pdf (from Internet Archive)
• CIA-MKULTRA-IG.pdf (from publicIntellegence.net)

Enjoy! Final part coming up.

 

[UnusualWizardry]

Part 5! The remaining articles...

This is more of an FYI. There are many articles left that I have been trying to piece together, but haven't made enough progress to produce finished pieces. This is a compilation of most of these remaining articles - some of which I am annoyingly close to recreating.
NOTE: There are more actual articles than this, but my main focus at the moment are articles that appear on the printed pages that Hopper has as well as anything appearing in the folders in the Season 2 cabin sequence. I know there are newspaper clippings on Murray's Wall in Season 2, Terry Ives has her own trove of clippings in Season 2 as well, etc. but that isn't the particular focus here.

"HAWKINS LAB BLOCKS INQUIRY"
I am so close on this one. The core text is blurry in almost every shot this article appears in (including the close-up during the earlier library sequence). I was able to find an alternate version (from Season 2) that helped fill in most of the text, but this red area is incomplete and I am unsure of exactly what to fill in here. Plus, the author name isn't really legible.


Other partial articles from Season 1 that appear within Hopper's print outs, including an alternate version of "Terry Ives Suing" (Fun fact - when they cut to a close up of Terry's photo in the microfiche montage it actually switches from this alternate version to the one I managed to complete):


Another interesting one from Season 1, an alternate version of the photo of Dr. Brenner and the lab participants with another lab tech on the left.
The one we see up close crops out this other person.


Another one from Season 1 has Dr. Brenner's first name as "Richard" instead of Martin. I believe this happens in a couple of the articles.
I can't seem to source this at the moment, but I recall an interview where prop master Linda Reiss mentioning that Dr. Brenner's name was changed while they were shooting. So some articles still say "Richard" in some shots while others say "Martin". I remember this because she talked about having to get new microfiche ordered rush for that library sequence. Anyway, the article:

There's another behind it that presumably has the headline "C.I.A.'s Mind, Behavior Control Scheme" but I have not been able to find an article that matches - so I presume this one is custom.

And lastly, some partial articles from the Season 2 cabin scene:


If anyone has any thoughts on any of these articles, let me know!
I'd love to finish replicating the rest of them.

Thanks everyone! Hopefully it's not another million years before I post again.

 

[greenmachines]

I took great care in assuring the text on the custom articles matched what was seen on screen.
That being said, I assume there could be a typo I made uniquely. But typically, there are typos present in newspaper article props all the time.
Repeated words, columns, and just plain typos definitely happen in the originals. Feel free to proof-read those, but make sure to compare to the originals - they certainly could have typos. And if the typo is on screen I will match it.

The rest of the articles in the post though are pre-existing and pulled from New York Times or other real news sources.
The article copies I got perfectly match the files used on screen, so any typos in those would've been present in the original real-life article most likely. I did not alter the text on those.

In fact, there is at least one typo. In the first Misc Article "Drug Tests by C.I.A." in the first line of the second column - there is the word "ttsts" instead of "tests". This was present in the original article.

The first I saw was in the Terry Ives article and it does appear in the original when I checked. The word perusal should say pursuit but was a typo in the source material as well.