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I'm just getting into trying to reproduce my own vintage backing cards and below is my first attempt.

I got a scan of a Luke/Bespin card and replaced everything on it except for the actual picture...the original card was for the Arena mail away special but I changed it to a mail away Admiral Ackbar special. I have changed the title of the figure to "Cloud City Trap" which I think ties in well with Ackbars most famous line haha


I copied the back of the card off a Mail away Nien Nunb figure.


All thats left now is to glue and press the two sides to some card and coat it with a light gloss coating to give it the 'store' look, I am just going to use a bubble from a newer figure and also have to give the Bespin Luke figure I got for it a bit of a spruce up then hopefully it'll look all good....the card is a lot darker but the pictures didn't come out to great.

Nice!

I've done a bunch of these in the past - a tool that I finally invested in that you might find useful is a round-corner punch (pic attached)...I think I picked one up at Warehouse Stationery. It'll give you perfectly round and perfectly aligned round corners every time.

Cheers Matt....I'll definatly look at the corner cutter as I hope to make a few more.

By any chance do you have a picture of one of the cards you made??

AaronDB94 wrote:...By any chance do you have a picture of one of the cards you made??

Most of the stuff I did was customs, rather than reproductions.

ET! I am familiar with more than a few of those toys at the time Sadly mine have gone the way of most of my childhood toys.

Very nice

The RL/501st in Adelaide had a huge figure card for their display at Armageddon A lot of people got in there

Just in case you haven't seen it Aaron, the FFURG website is a great resource for tips and templates - http://www.ffurg.com/packaging/template_vault.htm

Love that ET card Matt! Cool idea

My brother used to have a wind-up walking ET figure, but I don't know what happened to it.

I didn't make it (it may even just be a Photoshopped image), but I like this custom card idea ...



(Sorry about the hopeless image - it was the best a quick Google seach could come up with. I think I've got a better image on my Mac when I turn that on later.)

It reminds me of the old computer adventure game Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy we had. It came with a few extras in the packaging - one was belly button fluff (a small ball of cotton wool) and the other was a microscopic space fleet (an small empty plastic bag).

MattG wrote:Just in case you haven't seen it Aaron, the FFURG website is a great resource for tips and templates - http://www.ffurg.com/packaging/template_vault.htm

Thanks for this site Matt....I hadn't seen it before but will definatly use it alot!!

Does anyone know if theres any body in NZ who does the vintage style bubbles??