KalashnikovKid
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Evening Replica Prop Folk,
I work in a Tech college, It holds an open evening every year to encourage kids (age 11) to come to our school. Its a big event that takes groups of kids on tours of the school showing them each department individually.
I work in science and for the past 4 years we've been the highlight of the tour by putting on themed shows based around science experiments.
Now It's partly to do with the excellent delivery of content by our (mad) teachers and partly to do with the set pieces and equipment.
Being a lab tech and a bodgeneer I along with my colleague Matt (THE PUNSIHER) are responsible for the latter.
In the past we've done Batman twice, Dr who, Frankenstein and now we're doing Victorian science. It's heavily influenced by the recent Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne, and H G Wells.
This all leads to one thing.... STEAMPUNK! Now here comes the kicker, Our budget.... £100! :confused
We have £100 to produce two rooms of content, scenery, and demo's. The good news is we have a school full of junk to use though :love
First up.....
A couple of candle sticks.
Made from An old towel rail, case from a garden light, Hard drive disc, Half a wire spool and a thistle funnel.
Cost £0 :thumbsup
Next...
Hydrogen Rocket and launcher
Launcher
It just needs the ignition plug added and a detonator style switch added to finish it. The gauge actually fluctuates when you turn the pump on!
Made from an old Methanol drum, a lid from sweet tin, a handful of nuts, an old car tire pump, some copper pipe, and an old pressure gauge from a redundant Bolyes law apparatus.
Cost ~£2.50 for the elbow joint and a the nuts
The Rocket.
Matt took inspiration from the Nautilus for this piece. It's a shroud to go around the plastic soda bottle we use to contain the hydrogen and oxygen.
The silver dial was just used to prop up the prop
Made from a tennis ball tube, filter funnel, 3 pen lids, some random greeblie from an old VCR, a bit of wire, a spring, and some perforated aluminum we got from an old radioactive monitoring kit.
Cost £0 :thumbsup
Sparky doo-dah
A background piece designed sit in the back of our darkened room and have a stroboscope behind it. The flashes of bright light are only visible through the jagged slit cut in the paper between the "electrodes" all part of the Tesla section of the show. Matt made the electrodes and i put the rest together.
Made from some 32mm waste pipe. 2 funnels, cardboard, Polystyrene ball, some polystyrene sheet, black paper and an old slide projector wheel.
Cost £0 :thumbsup
More in part two.....
I work in a Tech college, It holds an open evening every year to encourage kids (age 11) to come to our school. Its a big event that takes groups of kids on tours of the school showing them each department individually.
I work in science and for the past 4 years we've been the highlight of the tour by putting on themed shows based around science experiments.
Now It's partly to do with the excellent delivery of content by our (mad) teachers and partly to do with the set pieces and equipment.
Being a lab tech and a bodgeneer I along with my colleague Matt (THE PUNSIHER) are responsible for the latter.
In the past we've done Batman twice, Dr who, Frankenstein and now we're doing Victorian science. It's heavily influenced by the recent Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne, and H G Wells.
This all leads to one thing.... STEAMPUNK! Now here comes the kicker, Our budget.... £100! :confused
We have £100 to produce two rooms of content, scenery, and demo's. The good news is we have a school full of junk to use though :love
First up.....
A couple of candle sticks.
Made from An old towel rail, case from a garden light, Hard drive disc, Half a wire spool and a thistle funnel.
Cost £0 :thumbsup
Next...
Hydrogen Rocket and launcher
Launcher
It just needs the ignition plug added and a detonator style switch added to finish it. The gauge actually fluctuates when you turn the pump on!
Made from an old Methanol drum, a lid from sweet tin, a handful of nuts, an old car tire pump, some copper pipe, and an old pressure gauge from a redundant Bolyes law apparatus.
Cost ~£2.50 for the elbow joint and a the nuts
The Rocket.
Matt took inspiration from the Nautilus for this piece. It's a shroud to go around the plastic soda bottle we use to contain the hydrogen and oxygen.
The silver dial was just used to prop up the prop
Made from a tennis ball tube, filter funnel, 3 pen lids, some random greeblie from an old VCR, a bit of wire, a spring, and some perforated aluminum we got from an old radioactive monitoring kit.
Cost £0 :thumbsup
Sparky doo-dah
A background piece designed sit in the back of our darkened room and have a stroboscope behind it. The flashes of bright light are only visible through the jagged slit cut in the paper between the "electrodes" all part of the Tesla section of the show. Matt made the electrodes and i put the rest together.
Made from some 32mm waste pipe. 2 funnels, cardboard, Polystyrene ball, some polystyrene sheet, black paper and an old slide projector wheel.
Cost £0 :thumbsup
More in part two.....
