Props for Beginners Thread

[Lost in Trek]

Might help if you indicated what movies/TV shows interest you. Star Wars, Trek, Battlestar, etc.

 

[runnothide]

Anything Marvel or DC, I love comics.
Also Anything with Stan Lee

 

[TheSt.LouisKid]

A tardis key like this one was one of my early projects....back in the early to mid '80's. It can be made in sheet styrene.

 

[red4]

Anything Marvel or DC, I love comics.
Also Anything with Stan Lee

You can make Wolverine's claws pretty easily with a 1/4 inch thick sheet of wood or plastic.

 

[runnothide]

Thanks, if you come up with anymore ideas let me know

 

[Kevin Gossett]

The tesseract is fairly simple with a baseball or softball display cube, frosting spray, and blue LEDs

 

[EricHart]

A cool and easy project is to build a box or a case for a prop you already have. Check out one of the boxes Adam Savage built: it has fake stickers, labels, and all sorts of interesting weathering going on:

One Day Builds: Adam Savage Demonstrates Weathering Tricks - Tested

 

[Tarchinoko]

try a simple foam helmet!
i did the iron helmet from skyrim for my first ever foam helmet project and it turned out really well!

if you want a bit of a tutorial i put this video up on youtube
pepakura file with templates are in the description!
FUS RO DAH! foam building tutorial for skyrim iron helmet - YouTube

 

[runnothide]

anyone else?

 

[runnothide]

bump
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[Nerfenstein]

I'm not sure if it's of any use to anyone, but I just did a really simple Aliens inspired push top grenade from old drink bottle parts. I did post it on the RPF, but thought it might help someone in this thread too, given how simple it was to make something pretty cool.

Here's a link to the post about how it was done: Aliens inspired push top grenade how to post.

 

[Marnok]

minor threadjack - does anyone know if a part list for bigyellowbox sabers exists, translated into UK shopping links? I'm looking for the parts and I think some of them might be called something else here in London.

 

[runnothide]

anyone know any good superman or punisher props?

 

[ZolarKresh]

I am still a big noob, but reading this thread helps me to see that I am not as bad as I thought that I was.

 

[runnothide]

bumpy bump

 

[robinhood jw]

^^This is a great idea. Lightsabers from the Big Yellow Box <-- this is an old site that still works and you can pick a style of lighsaber to build and use his parts list to hit up the plumbing section at Lowe's or Home Depot . Something like this is a great starting point if you like Star Wars stuff.

This was my first prop endeavor, several years ago.

I didn't follow their directions exactly. Mostly that site got me thinking and looking around at stuff and seeing the parts I could use. I ended up with a saber handle that looks more Kenobi-ish then the LSFTBYB ones - but still pretty far from screen accurate. Very fun nonetheless.

 

[TylerHam]

Be careful when you hit that Big Yellow Box saber build link - Google Chrome shot up a huge Malware warning when I tried to view the page...

This was my first prop endeavor, several years ago.

I didn't follow their directions exactly. Mostly that site got me thinking and looking around at stuff and seeing the parts I could use. I ended up with a saber handle that looks more Kenobi-ish then the LSFTBYB ones - but still pretty far from screen accurate. Very fun nonetheless.

 

[SteelRose]

try a simple foam helmet!
i did the iron helmet from skyrim for my first ever foam helmet project and it turned out really well!

if you want a bit of a tutorial i put this video up on youtube
pepakura file with templates are in the description!
FUS RO DAH! foam building tutorial for skyrim iron helmet - YouTube

Loved it! Thanks for sharing.

 

[runnothide]

bump for help and ideas

 

[runnothide]

any other ideas?