The question was posted on a Farscape specific forum but it got my curiosity up as I'm a chess player. Anyone ever seen anything like this? I'm leaning towards custom as it appears to be hardware pieces of some type.
Chessboard and pieces from Farscape
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OK, so who's going to do a run.
I think a most of use may be able to piece the board together, but not just any one can lathe the parts. (Though, I wouldn't turn down a board, if someone wants to do them too. )
jackdoud
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Yeah, metal shafts, clear acrylic details with black and white arcrylic rings to deliniate sides.
Ok, the ones for the show were no doubt machined metal, and acrylic. But since no-one has stepped offering to make them for us. I got to thinking of alternatives.
Last weekend my girlfriend drug me through the clearance section of Wal-Mart, were she bout up all the Zubber she could find. (it's a goo, you add a catalyzer to, and it turns into something like the rubber/silicon you would find in a mold. and we got it for like $2. a little pack, on clearance.) We made some fast, easy, fun, little molds, and that got me thinking. Wal*marl also sells something called "acrylic water". I've never used it myself, but from what I've heard, and read, about it, it is a to part compound, that you mix up, and it turns into well something like very clear acrylic. (it's mint to be used when you have fake flowers in a vase, to hold them in place, and add wait, wall looking like water.) It sells for around 6 bucks a pack.
Well, you are all probably way a head of me now, but I'll say it anyways.: )
The shape of the chess pieces are simple enough that you could probably to the metal parts out of hardware store parts. Then you could sculpt the acrylic parts, out of sculpty, or clay, or found parts, and cast them in Zubber, and put the acrylic water in the molds and get crystal clear parts. (I hear that stuff is much easier to work with then clear resin, and much less chance of bubbles. and it's cheaper.)
And again I know this is not how thay did it for the show, but hey something might be better then nothing at all.
So, thoughts?
By the way, I'm not posting this as a possible run, I'm just putting the idea out there, so we might each do our own.
And, It will be a long time before I'm caught up enough to give this a try so, feel free to take the idea, and run with it.
Last weekend my girlfriend drug me through the clearance section of Wal-Mart, were she bout up all the Zubber she could find. (it's a goo, you add a catalyzer to, and it turns into something like the rubber/silicon you would find in a mold. and we got it for like $2. a little pack, on clearance.) We made some fast, easy, fun, little molds, and that got me thinking. Wal*marl also sells something called "acrylic water". I've never used it myself, but from what I've heard, and read, about it, it is a to part compound, that you mix up, and it turns into well something like very clear acrylic. (it's mint to be used when you have fake flowers in a vase, to hold them in place, and add wait, wall looking like water.) It sells for around 6 bucks a pack.
Well, you are all probably way a head of me now, but I'll say it anyways.: )
The shape of the chess pieces are simple enough that you could probably to the metal parts out of hardware store parts. Then you could sculpt the acrylic parts, out of sculpty, or clay, or found parts, and cast them in Zubber, and put the acrylic water in the molds and get crystal clear parts. (I hear that stuff is much easier to work with then clear resin, and much less chance of bubbles. and it's cheaper.
) And again I know this is not how thay did it for the show, but hey something might be better then nothing at all.
So, thoughts?
By the way, I'm not posting this as a possible run, I'm just putting the idea out there, so we might each do our own.
And, It will be a long time before I'm caught up enough to give this a try so, feel free to take the idea, and run with it.
