SHADO BADGES

Simon:

>As the badges in the series seem to be made of plastic, >the Fanderson
>versions are of considerably higher quality. Well worth >a purchase if
>you're a member.

Why purchase an inaccurate replica made of metal.
Its easy to produce an exact copy of the real badges used by the actors using thin card or plasticard.

Simply use the SHADO logo from the Shado website print it,cut it out and then pritt stik it to the card.Then use double sided tape to attach it.You can make dozens of these for a tenth the price of a metal badge.Not only that they are exactly as used on the show and it does,nt matter if they come off (as they did quite easily from the actors)as you've got plenty more.

Mark UK



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"Mark Davies" wrote:

> Why purchase an inaccurate replica made of metal.
> Its easy to produce an exact copy of the real badges used by the
> actors using thin card or plasticard.
>

I suppose the same reason why you'd rather have a functional
turbine-powered Straker's car, rather than an old Ford with
rattly suspension, gull-wing doors that need human intervention
to stay up and an exhaust that leaked fumes into the passenger
compartment - albeit on a somewhat more modest scale :)

In other words - although the badges used as props may have been
made of cardboard or thin plastic, perhaps they were supposed
to represent something a bit more permanent or substantial.

--- In [hidden email], "Mark Davies" <aonq79@d...> wrote:
> Simon:
>
> Why purchase an inaccurate replica made of metal.
> Its easy to produce an exact copy of the real badges used by the
actors using thin card or plasticard.
>
> Simply use the SHADO logo from the Shado website print it,cut it
>out and then pritt stik it to the card.Then use double sided tape
>to attach it.You can make dozens of these for a tenth the price of
>a metal badge.Not only that they are exactly as used on the show
and it does,nt matter if they come off (as they did quite easily
from the actors)as you've got plenty more.
>
> Mark UK


Interesting thought: this was what I used to do as a kid many years
ago when NO ONE made badges based on one of my favourite shows. I
think it would be a somewhat retrograde step to go back to this
method when there is now a high quality version of the badge
available. I'm sure the original prop badges in the series were
plastic or cardboard or whatever for no other reason than they were
cheap and easy for Century 21 to make, not because a top secret
organisation specified their construction in that way!

So thanks, but I prefer the metal badges that Fanderson are selling
to members, which I repeat are high quality accurate copies, and no
doubt will last longer than the 'originals' were ever designed to.

You know...I should imagine Fanderson sometimes wonder why they
bother....!

Simon