This is a vanity thread right???.........You're building a prop that won't fit through any door, you wont' tell us what it is and have ignored most of the advice posted....??
Don't get me wrong.....we'll support you as best we can....but seriously....
Wait, what costume that isn't for sale isn't a vanity project?
I really like this community and appreciate all the advice that is offered. I've used several suggestions, in some manner, in this thread. However, following the more specific posts entirely didn't work well.
Most of the advice has been ruled out due to weight. You can read that yourself, man. We went out and tried a lot of the ideas posted here, and they were either too heavy, too pricey, or not stable at all. I've also seen dozens of projects here in which people won't specify what the prop is, what character it is for, or if they didn't post info as they went along, how they made it. This is hardly new.
As for fitting through doors, the idea is to make it so it comes apart. I won't be pedantic, but I did say this in the post just above yours.
CharlesHouse said:
I think, to be mobile, because it won't fit out a door, we're going to build two "lids" out of corrugated plastic and glue snaps inside them, then use wood print fabric to snap between the two. The plan is to add zippers to the bottom of the fabric where the handle inserts. I'll glue some parts of the PVC, so we can disassemble it to travel.
.i'd build it out of foam then wrap it in cardboard and paint it to look like wood.
We tried that. At this size, it required a lot of foam and became very heavy. We almost bought 40 or so yards of batting on a roll and covered it in cardboard, but it would have been nearly $100 for foam alone, on sale, and still require finishing. Without a skeleton of some kind or being entirely full of foam, at that size, foam and cardboard wouldn't be stable. That's when we went to building a frame.
