looking for shiny plastic or vinyl sheets
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Topic: looking for shiny plastic or vinyl sheets
Posted By: Kim L.
Subject: looking for shiny plastic or vinyl sheets
Date 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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Kim
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Posted By: David McCall
Date 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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David M
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Posted By: SavTD
Date 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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Posted By: vickifrank
Date 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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Posted By: Gaafa
Date 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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Posted By: Jmarkus
Date Posted: 8/18/09 at 3:08am
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go to a local plastic shop, you can get 4' by 8' sheets for about $20
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