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What materials do you use for making sets?
What materials do you use for making sets?
in this forum i want to discuss what materials you use to make sets, items and any thing in a set and it can be any kind of set land scape indoor rooms or any thing...
like for example do u use hard foam, wood, super sculpey and what for.....
i hope we can get a good discussion about set constructing and sharing ideas... 
- Squirpled
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
to make houses I take a cardboard box, glue some popsicle sticks too it and finish it with props and stuff like that.
- wiahd
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
what are u going to use for the inside?
(maybe u should use a different set for the inside not the same box...)
so far i haven't made any big set's yet really (so far the lego movie i'm working on now is the bigest set) but i 'm planing for a movie that i've been working on since last summer i'll be using wood for the floors and walls and then use wallpaper and paint.... i'm going for a Wallace and Gromit style...
i have a picture of the floor for the bathroom in my pics...
- Squirpled
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
Never thought of that, I might but that set was just a project I might use it I might not. Im not sure what Im going to use for the inside but im thinking.
- wiahd
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
For exteriors, I use foamboard to make up the shape then cover it in wet plaster, wall filler or modelling clay for a realistic finish - and also to cover the gaps =0) I've recently found a glass-fibre plasterers tape in my local hardware store for making joins in drywall that keeps the foamboard from warping when you paint or plaster it. Just a thing to make life slightly easier.
- Kelvin
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
Cardboard is just about the only thing I can get a hold of locally so it's all I can use, 2 hour drive to my closest hobby store.
- Bagi80
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
I can identify with that. I used to live in a ZE2 postcode which is exactly as remote as it sounds! ...but cardboard is far from limiting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqWio9Ksyls
- Kelvin
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
yeah i don't live in America so i don't have any big hard ware shops like Home depots so it's hard to get supplies...
i have to look through lot's of little junky stores (but i never have time)....
- Squirpled
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
I live in amarica so I have all the supplies I want except that I aint got no money lol
- wiahd
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Re: What materials do you use for making sets?
HAHAhaha yeah if u can get it to look just as good then do it the cheapest way u can...
or just give it an awesome Random junky style that looks good but u can tell what things are made of...
that's the trick making it look profesional when it's made out of a lot of junk u found around the house...
always look out side the boundaries look at something and think wat could that be made into?
like for example i saw this picture of a sink some guy made it's out of two altoid tins it looked really good...
- Squirpled
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