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Question about plastic (invisible badges)

 
 
paw
02:14 / 08.12.02
does anyone have the equipment or access to white plastic, like the moldable plastic you used to have for t.d class, as well as the machinery that can cut this plastic into a badge size perfect circle? yes i want an invisibles badge, yes it's nerdy as fuck but can anyone help me out?
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:18 / 08.12.02
They gave out Invisible badges like you described once upon a time. I think I gave my to that uberamazing woman who first introduced me to the Invisibles. ( I was drunk on Rum balls at the time). One of the few kibbles of comicdom I own...my punisher pins and my Lobo "Bite Me Fan Boy" pin being the others.

Check out Ebay..there may be some of the pins for sale...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:27 / 08.12.02
The 'official' badges weren't that much cop, they were white but with the Invisibles logo in a very light off-white cream. They also fell apart after being worn on my coat for about a month. Matsya (of blessed memory) made some once upon a time which I still own and wear for 'metting new Barbeli' purposes..

Have you got access to a Yellow Pages or something similar? Look under things like badges and banners, you should be able to find a company that can help you run some out fairly cheaply. Most badges are a piece of paper with the image you want with a clear plastic cover. If you want to make it all in one it's going to be as fiddly as fuck...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:10 / 08.12.02
Once upon a time you could buy badge making kits from toy shops, with the metal backings, plastic covers and a press that stuck the one to the other.
 
 
A
11:16 / 08.12.02
You can just get a badge you don't like, pull it apart, replace the picture under the plastic with a clear white circle, and stick it back together again.

I used to make badges with tits on 'em for my school chums when i were a wee lad.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:47 / 08.12.02
Have you thought about using other modelling materials, such as a polymer clay like fimo? It's easy to get hold of from art and craft shops and I seem to recall them selling pins and whatnot so you could make it into badges. Or perhaps Friendly Plastic?
 
 
Char Aina
08:12 / 09.12.02
white cap(deodorant).
craft knife.
heat.
safety pin.

put all these elements and some ingenuity together, and i think you could acieve the look.
you might want to use a compass to get a perfect circle.(heat it so it scars the plastic more deeply.)
 
 
The Natural Way
08:43 / 09.12.02
Fuck that - I want passive consumption! Let's go!

I was meaning to start a badge related thread.....

Seriously, does anyone know anywhere I could pick up a badge making kit in central London? I don't think Hamleys sells them anymore.
 
 
Char Aina
09:25 / 09.12.02
craft shops sell them, and most art stores too.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:26 / 09.12.02
Thankin' yew.
 
 
rizla mission
10:40 / 10.12.02
I've gone through several homemade ones over the years, but the one Matsya sent me still prevails (though shockingly, I think it's starting to go rusty).
 
 
Persephone
12:25 / 10.12.02
I must say, I think fimo has the most interesting possibilities. You could roll it out and cut a perfect circle with something like a biscuit cutter, then you could lightly impress the clay with your logo & then bake. Then all you have to do is glue a pin on the back. I'm sure they sell the pin-making things with the fimo... jewelry is, like, the main thing that people use fimo to make. You should ask Mazarine. She does stuff with sculpey, which I think is the same thing as fimo. Geez now I want to make some...
 
 
Hieronymus
12:32 / 10.12.02
Like Flowers said, the promo badges fall off pretty easily. The pin backing wasn't constructed with anything but a prayer to hold it to the actual badge.

Buuuuuuut, having said that, if anybody's interested, I've got 5 left of the original little bastards if anyone wants to give them a home. First come, first serve. Private message me for the particulars.

Merry Christmas.
 
 
Persephone
15:09 / 10.12.02
I am just from the craft store and can confirm that you can get blocks of super sculpey and bags of many pinbacks for little money.

*hee-eelp, I am infected with this "making Invisibles badges" meme...*
 
 
Spatula Clarke
15:15 / 10.12.02
I think it's starting to go rusty

Mine too. There's damp spreading out from the edges as well.
 
 
Hieronymus
16:30 / 10.12.02
Runspeckle's claimed one. Anybody else?
 
 
Persephone
00:09 / 25.12.02
Can Barbelith change your life? How else could I have ended up baking Invisibles badges on Christmas Eve? I do-oon't think I had the first batch in the oven long enough --baking them in batches of five, of course. And I need more pearly paint, I think. But I'm on the job, mrmcglinchey.

Husb: They look like lozenges.
P: Lozenges are pink.
Husb: Not white lozenges.
P: Shut up, please.
Husb: If you paint them black on the other side, they'll look like Othello pieces...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
04:37 / 25.12.02
Deciduous: Sign me up.
 
 
rizla mission
11:10 / 29.12.02
Annoyingly, I lost my badge at the Radio 4 gig a few weeks ago, so, er, I guess I'll go for one too..
 
 
Hieronymus
06:46 / 31.12.02
All righty. I believe iszabelle, Mazarine, Rumspeckle, Rothkoid and Rizla got my 5. You lot email me for the particulars (a SASE may be required as I but a poor college bastard) and I'll mail 'em once I'm back home from the holidays.
 
 
Saveloy
07:51 / 02.01.03
Are you after plain white badges with nothing printed on them? If so, they sell exactly that at my local novelty/party/dressing-up shop. Small, blank badges with pins, available in a range of colours. They look like the old thin metal type. The shop's a wee independantly run thing called U-Need-Us, mostly sells silly hats, masks, plastic dog turds etc, but also stage make-up, wigs and false 'taches. If there's a similar establishment near you, might be worth checking out. If not, gimme a PM.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:40 / 02.01.03
Yeah, mine fell apart within seconds. There was a whole kind of Hexagram 23 vibe about it.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
16:04 / 02.01.03
[off-topic]

Saveloy - it gives me a jolt every time I see you talking about something in Portsmouth. I've got some classy stuff from U-Need-Us in my time...
 
 
Saveloy
13:10 / 03.01.03
Kit-Cat Club:
"I've got some classy stuff from U-Need-Us in my time..."

You won't find a more convincing wet-look plastic dog turd with flies on it anywhere else. And it's the only place in town selling Cat-opoly for a start.
 
 
Squirmelia
10:31 / 02.12.03
I have been trying to make badges (not Invisibles badges) from Fimo, but my Fimo skills seem to have decreased since I was a child, and my blue Fimo keeps turning black in the oven, although still feels slightly squishy. I guess I should just cook it less, and weight it down, since once it actually floated around the oven. Hmm.

Maybe I will resort to bits of cardboard, safety pins, and sticky-back plastic. Either that or buy a Badge Making kit from Toys R Us.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
10:41 / 02.12.03
I have one of those and they are so COOL!
 
 
Squirmelia
11:06 / 02.12.03
What kind do you have?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:11 / 02.12.03
Erm I dunno, it looks a bit like this one



I found it on Amazon here.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:12 / 02.12.03
Ooh wait! It's actually this one.
 
 
Squirmelia
09:43 / 03.12.03
Ooh, maybe I should get one of those. What size badges do they make?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
16:06 / 03.12.03
Badgers? We don' need no steenkin' badgers!

Etc.
 
  
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