Breakaway glass Alternatives?
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Topic: Breakaway glass Alternatives?
Posted By: tragic_fiend
Subject: Breakaway glass Alternatives?
Date Posted: 9/28/04 at 2:02pm
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Hello everyone; Our community theatre group is doing a play next month where breaking a bottle and a vase over someone's head is required; we looked into getting breakaway glass for it, but the shelf life is apparently not great for them, plus we are going to need a minimum of 3 vases and 3 bottles (two productions and a dress rehersal), so by the time we get it shipped to us, we're looking at around $125 for just a minor scene in the play. Are there any cheaper alternatives, yet still effective?? |
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Posted By: sparf
Date Posted: 9/30/04 at 4:29pm
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http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/special_fx/sfx_sugarglass.htm - http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/special_fx/sfx_sugarglass.htm
That link has a way to make sugar glass panels. I should think that there would be a way to adapt the technique to making your own bottles, but I don't know for sure. That looks to be your only option without buying the breakaways. ------------- That is not dead which can eternal lie / and with strange aeons even Death may die. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10/09/04 at 12:30am
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Use clay instead. Either spend an evening with your
cast making lightweight clay pots, jugs, bottles and vases in the proper size and configurations or enlist the help of a local artisan who might do the job as a favor or for advertising in the program. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11/30/04 at 1:30pm
| The sugar glass will not work as bottles and vases. Plus under theatre lights it melts. There is a resin that I use to make breakaway items. But by the time you buy the molding and casting materials and the resin it would probably cost more than buying them. Plus it takes a few days to make. The good part is that the mold can be reused for a long time and the resin pieces can be remelted several times before they start to turn an amber color. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 12/16/04 at 10:33am
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