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Sorry for the delay in posting these photos. Finally into theatre for tech run today. I mounted a 6.5kg lump of steel inside wall of each door and put a small block of 2x1 on base of door to give it something to rest on. I can't quite get the doors to butt up perfectly but they're reasonably good.

Yes I always add weights to my trucks to stop them tipping over. Doors weigh about 6.5 kg each. Going to try to assemble tonight.

Interior sides will be set with one downstage R by curtain and first tab so effectively draped by blacks. The other, upper stage L again by tab so partially draped. Its how the Director wants it done. If I had the space I'd have preferred to have made it an all in one unit on truck that could...

I am trying to come up with a solution to problem of building a set of double doors for the exterior door for Beauty and the Beast. As the doors need to be in two sections, double sided for both exterior and interior doors and be easily moved, the usual method of door making isn't going to work...

An update: 10 days out from opening night and we are almost ready to go - I hope. The Flats, Gates and House work wonderfully - a huge thank you to you all for your help :clap:. The truck we built for fences and Scarecrow, the boys complained was too difficult to swap fences over on (put...

We've made up flats 4x8 single sided so far but will end up double sided once all painted up. Made base from 2x4s basically small trucks 1200 long x 360mm wide with ply on top. Going to brace up sides with 2x1 and triangular bracing at bottom going up about 1500 mm high. This will sit on base so...

Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and photos. It looked amazing. Director would like a spiral yellow brick rd like in the movie. We've been given 7.5 x2 metres of wood panel vinyl so I'm going to cut it into 3.75 x 3.75 m square paint it yellow and somehow put a red spiral on it to...

Thank you for all the info :)After doing some ringing around polystyrene suppliers it turns out that it will be more expensive than building our original wood flats. I've had a looong conversation with our Tech Director and explained pros and cons of using wood vs polystyrene vs corrugated card...

Have any of you used polystyrene sheets for flats? Tech director suggested this might be easier to use as lighter weight for kids to shift. Would it need bracing like a normal flat?

Just a nice flat stage, polished wood. Because flats are being moved by kids I was asked to put wheels on flats because they're too tall for the kids to safely lift without tipping over. So making up a small truck wider than flat will do job- great. I have to explain this to my husband who is...

I'm very new to set design and construction, and have just been given job of designing and building the set for the Wizard of Oz for our High School Musical. My set construction is limited to having helped put previous sets together, so I know how to build flats but that's about it. Can someone...