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I'm struggling with reference for the bottom left corner of the "Sirius Sighted" paper.
 :'(

I worked from a variety of sources, but I was lucky enough to get photos of some of the original props. The lettering took a long time to decifer and then match up perfectly.

I have almost finished my set of replicas, all 16 pages of them, at 400dpi.

I print them out on 90lb watercolour stock.

Is this any use? It's the same label, but perhaps on a smaller bottle?

Yes, it is in the movie. It's when Snape takes the map from Harry.

The reproduction looks very good, but I always thought that the two sides should line up properly. I only thought that they appear offset because the map isn't flat.

Beautiful work though, as always by Monsters_05.

This help?

Great looking book.  Why do I see Kevin calculating what he would need for a replica?   

 

Am I so transparent? 

Thanks Bitsy.

The prop card scans that were posted here helped me pin down the crossword clues that I have filled in. There are only eight or nine of them and they repeat. One prop card allowed me to work out which square on the crossword is "5".

I think I'm going to have to make up the rest to finish this one off.

The top piece is really annoying. It has been so chopped up that it doesn't read well, although the gist of it is funny, and it has several names in it that don't relate to Potter. I'm going to go back to the DVD credits to read the names of everyone in the graphics department. That might answer another couple of questions.

On the extras disc for OotP, there's a sequence where the actress who plays Tonks tours the production offices. She meets a guy is Lima. The first reporter credited on the front page of the first PoA paper his also called Lima, but a different forename; his son maybe?

Oh and the text on the front page is just the excerpt from the first book repeated and chopped up a bit.
The graphics department were able to have some fun and write new stories on the inside and back pages.

I am struglling to decipher the blurry picture I have of the original prop from when it went to auction a few years ago. I am getting there, but there are some words I can't make out. What doesn't help is that they chop and paste copy to fit the shapes so it doesn't always make sense.



The red question marks are where I'm struggling. I have made a little more progress with the crossword clues than is shown here.

If I were to try and sell any of the replicas I make I would be in breach of copyright. With Harry Potter the copyright is licensed to Warner Brothers. They protect it fiercely because anybody who has sub-licensed the rights from them wouldn't want somebody like me undercutting them and ruining their market. If I wanted to sell my replicas I really should approach WB and negotiate a licence. That would mean an initial payment to them and then a royalty for each item sold. At the end of the licence period I would have to pay them a lump sum for any shortfall in sales (relative to the minimum sales figures they would find acceptable).

That said, there is a slightly grey area around creating and selling a one-off, fan produced tribute item because it starts to enter the "art" market.

Basically, that's why I only do these for my own amusement. Also, I buy a lot of licensed items but nobody has done a DP or accurate wizard candy and it doesn't look like they're going to.

Thanks PepperD.

Thanks to the latest cards posted here I can see that the picture of the QueenBee herself at the bottom of the packet is bigger on one side. I assume the bigger side is the one where the text curves upwards in the middle. Also the patter of circles is different for each side. I am now trying to work out which cards came from which sides to extrapolate the pattern of nested rings.

!!!!

Thanks to everyone but, LikORish-Spider, how do you do it?
The only real problem remaining to me was all the offset circles. I have enough detail to do the outer ones, but those behind the lettering and the little Queen Bee seemed hopeless. 082, 192 and 378 are going to be a great help.

Thank you, again. I'll post a picture here soon of my progress so far.

Fantastic!
Thanks for that. I was resigned to trying to draw that image from scratch. I'll still need to redraw it to get a clean version, plus the head and shoulders are the same as the much larger version on the top of the box, but this means I can be sure that what I do is accurate.

Thank you again!

Good idea, but no.
Anybody with this particular prop card (which is from PoA) can check for themselves. It took me a while to notic this, but in the large photo there is one packet of candy that has the upward curve and the rest have the downward curve. This coupled with the illustration of the head being reversed makes me fairly confident that it's front and back.

The left of this picture shows a detail from the prop card and an actual prop photographed on exhibition in Japan. The picture on the left includes both the up and down curves.

Thanks everyone.

Thanks Sharon. That's great.
In case you haven't noticed, there are two type of Fizzing Whizbee package; those where the title arcs over, and those where it arcs under (does that make sense?). I am working on the assumption that they are the front and the back of the packet.

I thought I should add a couple of mine to this thread.



I have almost finished the cover to a couple of DPs from Prisoner. I'm currently working on the Fizzing Whizbees.
Also on my list are a box of Bertie Botts beans and the Chocolate Frog boxes from both the first and the third films (they're quite different).

Hey Everyone,

I am making good progress with the Fizzing Whizbees. It would really help if people can post scans of their prop cards for reference. I have a few that have been featured earlier in this thread and a few from ebay, but any more would be great. Also, even if you have already posted your card, it would be great if you could post a scan at 300dpi.

Then it'll be either the Bertie Botts Beans or I'll grasp the nettle and get back to my Chocolate Frog box.

Thanks in advance.

I haven't seen the Daily Prophet covers.  What section are they in? or thread url?

http://www.theyakshack.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5564.0

Thanks to Lick-O-Rish Spider, I have moved on apace. I've also made good progress on a couple of the Azkaban Prophets. At the moment I am trying to finish off a pack of Bertie Bott's beans and then back to the Chocolate Frog bax.

Thanks for the kind words. Have you seen the Daily Prophet covers I posted in a different thread?