{"id":16089,"date":"2020-11-16T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=16089"},"modified":"2020-11-16T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:32:26","slug":"freelance-police-office-file-cabinet-and-stacks-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=16089","title":{"rendered":"Freelance Police office &#8211; file cabinet and stacks of paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! After a year and a half on preorder, my Sam &#038; Max figures from Boss Fight Studio are finally here! But that&#8217;s not even the biggest news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm-switch.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam &#038; Max Save the World &#8212; the game my roombox is based on &#8212; is being rereleased on PC and Nintendo Switch!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skunkapegames.com\/samandmax\" target=\"new\">Sam &#038; Max Save the World Remastered<\/a> will be out on December 2, and I&#8217;m handling PR for the launch. The new version was created by a small team of people who worked on the original and acquired the rights after Telltale (the game&#8217;s developer) shut down in 2018. Read all about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/akdgke\/why-a-group-of-ex-telltale-developers-are-bringing-back-sam-and-max\" target=\"new\">this VICE Games article<\/a> and feast your eyes on the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vIajN-DDmIk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re just here for the dollhouses and have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about, my <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14575\" target=\"new\">first post about the Freelance Police roombox<\/a> has a crash course on the history of this series and my connection to it.<\/p>\n<p>The Freelance Police office looks more cartoony in the new version &#8212; closer to Steve Purcell&#8217;s comics. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/remastered-office-sm.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>It now has lighting and shadows that the tech couldn&#8217;t handle in <a href=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/telltale-office.jpg\" target=\"new\">the original<\/a>, and the color of the walls is more green. (But I will not repaint my walls!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm-comparison.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how my office looks so far:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm-office-oct2020.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I made the file cabinet to the right of Sam&#8217;s desk. I made this out of 1\/16&#8243; thick basswood, with 1\/4&#8243; square basswood as supports inside the cabinet. (The cabinet is hollow with fake drawers.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm343.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to make the drawers square like they are in the game, but in order to have three square drawers I would have had to make the file cabinet shorter, and then it would have seemed too short next to Sam.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm344.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I assembled the cabinet by gluing the front and side pieces to 1\/4&#8243; square supports. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm345.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm346.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The support pieces are slightly shorter than the cabinet pieces. I lined them up at the bottom, leaving an approximately 1\/16&#8243; gap at the top.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm347.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The top piece sits on those support pieces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm348.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>My front, back, and sides weren&#8217;t all exactly the same length. I lined them up at the bottom, so the top was uneven. After gluing in the top piece, I cleaned up the top on the disc sander. Then I hand sanded the whole cabinet with fine grit sandpaper to make it nice and smooth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm349.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it looks next to Sam. Seems a little short, but as I mentioned above I was limited by the height of the drawer fronts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm350.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I painted the cabinet and drawer fronts with blue metallic paint.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm351.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>While the paint dried, I worked on the cardboard box that sits on top of the file cabinet. A box would have been easy enough to make, but I recently stumbled across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/494992380\/ff129-miniature-boxes-112-scale-kit\" target=\"new\">this kit on Etsy<\/a> and jumped at the opportunity to not have to figure it out myself. I&#8217;ll use the smaller boxes that came in the kit in the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15863\" target=\"new\">attic roombox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The box came scored, so all I had to do was fold and glue. Simplest kit I ever assembled!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm352.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Next I printed out the labels for the box and the drawer fronts. (Special thanks to Sam &#038; Max developer Randy Tutor for sending me the textures!) These are test prints on my black and white printer, hence the fuzziness. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm353.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a story behind the dates. On March 3, 2004, LucasArts&#8217; Sam &#038; Max Freelance Police game was cancelled. Several people from the development team moved on to work at Telltale, and they put a 03-03-04 label on the box as a nod to Freelance Police&#8217;s cancellation. In the new remastered version, a second label has been added: 09-21-18, the day Telltale shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got the label sizes how I wanted them, I printed them out in color and sprayed them with UV sealer. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm354.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>(I use fancy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004TS2L\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00\" target=\"new\">Epson presentation paper<\/a> for color printing. When I only have a few things to print in color, I print them out in a row like this and then slice off the printed part, so I can print on the unused part of the paper later.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how they look on the box.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm355.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a towering stack of paper inside the box and another one next to the file cabinet. To make these, I used the paper cutter to cut scrap paper into 3\/4&#8243; wide strips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm356.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I folded these into an accordion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm357.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Then I dabbed glue on each segment of the accordion and squished it into a stack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm358.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I added wood blocks to the bottom of the box so I wouldn&#8217;t have to fill the entire box with paper stacks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm360.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Once paper is added, you can&#8217;t see the blocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm361.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Before gluing in the paper stacks, I added a piece hanging out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm362.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Then I glued in the paper stacks. For the piece on top, I used a leftover sheet of printed paper from the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15958\" target=\"new\">bulletin board project<\/a>. This is another texture extracted from the game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm363.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I made some more paper stacks to go next to the file cabinet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm366.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Zooming in on the <a href=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/telltale-office.jpg\" target=\"new\">original Telltale version of Sam &#038; Max&#8217;s office<\/a>, I noticed a <a href=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/paper-stack.jpg\" target=\"new\">file folder<\/a> next to the paper stack. My cardboard box kit came with a few freebie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/494547726\/ff12-miniature-file-folders-112-scale\" target=\"new\">manila folders<\/a>, so I used one of these along with another printout left over from the bulletin board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm367.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I put together an issue of Alien Love Triangle Times to go on top of the paper stack. This is also extracted from the game textures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm368.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm369.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it all looks. Sam is excited!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm370.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I used wire cutters to cut down heavy duty staples for the drawer handles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm371.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>The handles were tough to glue on. Tacky glue didn&#8217;t hold so I eventually used Super Glue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm372.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Voila!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm374.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/samandmax\/snm379.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! After a year and a half on preorder, my Sam &#038; Max figures from Boss Fight Studio are finally here! But that&#8217;s not even the biggest news&#8230; Sam &#038; Max Save the World &#8212; the game my roombox is based on &#8212; is being rereleased on PC and Nintendo Switch! Sam &#038; Max [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,10],"tags":[90,26,91],"class_list":["post-16089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","category-games","category-public-relations","tag-freelance-police-office","tag-roomboxes","tag-sam-max","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16089"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16145,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions\/16145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}