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Kim L.
Star Joined: 2/03/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 86 |
Topic: looking for shiny plastic or vinyl sheets Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:02pm |
I'm trying ot make a chocolate waterfall for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I saw a picture of a set online where it looks like they used some type of shiny brown plastic or vinyl that they cut into strips. The shimmer of the sheet cut into strips really gave the illusion of a chocolate waterfall. It reminded me of the plastic streamers that kids used to have on the end of bicycle handle bars.
Any ideas of where to get something like that or what I could use? I would need the sheets to be 10-12 ft. long b/c i want my chocolate waterfall to be that tall. Thanks!! |
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David McCall
Celebrity Joined: 1/28/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 299 |
Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:31pm |
You have no doubt seen lots of those blue tarps that everybody uses. They also come in Brown. I think I saw them at Lowes or Home Depot. You could cut one of those into strips.
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SavTD
Walk-On Joined: 9/05/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
Posted: 7/28/09 at 1:11pm |
If you paint the backside of a shower curtain liner brown, you might be able to get a similar affect.
And if one shower curtain is too short, you can easily tape them together with packing tape... I just made a hot air balloon for The Wiz using shower curtains for the balloon, and they held up great! |
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vickifrank
Celebrity Joined: 9/21/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
Posted: 8/01/09 at 2:42pm |
Some of the industrial size 50 gal trash bags are brown and are about 36". If you cut lengthwise in strips, you get the front and the back to get you 72" (six foot) strips.
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Gaafa
Celebrity Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181 |
Posted: 8/01/09 at 9:00pm |
Have you thought about usin chocolate satin/silk material, with an elongated turbo fan behind it, to give the flow effect. You can pick up the turbo fan from old gas space/room heaters, which can be got from salvage yards cheap enough.
The material will bounce the light, however it will also tend to produce a moire effect as well. The chocolate colour I doubt is a popular one, so you may be able to snaffle it for a song, especialy if it is just growing cobwebs & colecting dust, in some wholesale distributors wharehouse.
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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Jmarkus
Walk-On Joined: 8/18/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 8/18/09 at 3:08am |
go to a local plastic shop, you can get 4' by 8' sheets for about $20
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