Packaging as Props Updates

As promised in previous posts, I was talking about some recent packaging developments that I'd show in a day or two. Well that day is today because look what rocked up this morning!







This is a aluminium flight case by Swan Flight and was origionally intended to hold 7 inch vinyls. A little more information about the case below:

1x Strong butterfly catch on the front with loops for padlock holds the lid in place
2x lift-off hinge at the rear so that the lid removes completely.
1x Dish handle fitted on the top.
Stacking ball corners.
Centre divider 2 rows of 100x 7" singles.
Total capacity 200x 7" singles in paper sleeves.
Fully foam lined with 3mm black plaztazote.
2x Internal sections 230mm(L) x 190mm(W) x 190mm(H).
External 430mm(L) x 270mm(W) x 230mm(H).
Weight approx 4kg.

After doing a little research on the case used in BTTF one, I found the manufacturer who produced the case to be Anvil, a leader then and now in custom ATA certified travel containers. Every single case you can get from Anvil is firstly very expensive and always custome so I was avoiding that option but I was looking at yellow flight cases in general.

The dimensions of this case is just perfect for the intented contents and looks awesome in person. As previously said to re-address the needs of graphic design the product will have a card wrap around sleeve. This was spoke on in greater detail in past posts so if you havent seen it already, please check that out.

The images below show how close the case is to the movie prop.





Onviously my case is a lot smaller and so it should be, the case used in the movie housed 12" records so it was huge and because of this theirs slight differences such as I only have one locking mechanism. Although if you do compare you'll see how similar these cases are in design and in terms of locks Swan were one in an extrememly small number of manufacturers to be using the butterfly catch, the exact same lock used in BTTF. As a whole, seeing this has given a well need motivational boost to push on.

In terms of the next steps for the case, I'll be looking into filling the interior with charcoal foam and testing layouts for where each of the products will sit withing the carrier. I'll also be looking into dressing the exterior with the radioactive info labels.