Recent content by JahJahwarrior

Well, I'm not really involved in theatre much anymore here at college....he's got a cheaper Chauvet unit...it'd be going into my dorm room :) Still, if he'll respond to my email and still has both, I might get the Trackspot. I could loan it to my buddy that staid in town to teach the tech class...

Been a while since I've posted here! Came across a Craigslist ad this morning for a Trackspot for $100. Seems like a steal, as I think these sell for much mor eusually. But, I don't know if there are different models of trackspot or any way to gauge the age or value of the fixture. Does anyone...

Thing is, we want this to look like the side of a house, then become transparent :) I just won't bother with it. Painting it's not a huge problem, it's getting it white again. You can paint a scrim if you are careful and still have it be normal "scrim" with a scrim effect.

That might work! I don't really want us to spend $40 on a motor though, what I'll do is try with a DC motor first, to see if I can get it to work with that. Otherwise, that motor looks perfect!!

My school only has one scrim drop. We don't want to paint it permanently, but we were thinking of painting it to mimic siding of a house for this production. Is there a way to paint cotton sharkstooth scrim so that we could easily bleach it out later? :)

my dad suggested an old clock. I cannot find anything with a low RPM on grainger under C frame, the lowest is around 1700 rpm :) I don't want to build a gearbox for a fireplace. Yes, the lamp is wired in with the motor, I won't dim it. Thanks for the tip!

So, it looks as if the adult help for the production has some ideas for a fireplace and he'll be building that. We have some logs that look decently realistic, and there is a small AC motor that turns a plastic cup type thing aorund an orange lamp to make it look like embers in the fire. It...

So...if I used edges of the foam, I could get something like the Pro Fit Ledgestone, if I turned it on it's side, I could get something like Smoothed Stone? http://www.legendtheatrical.com/storeItems.php?cId=3.3&subId=3.3.1 After going over it with the scenic dope, I still have to paint...

I need to build a stone fireplace. I have a base of a fireplace that we could build around if necessary, it was a wood/fake brick thing--the fake brick stuff broke while it was stored....so we want to rebuild it as a stone fireplace. Fibreglass is cumbersome to work with (I rebuilt a boat...

Long time no see! Computer broke at the beginning of summer and it was the end of summerbefore I had her running again (power supply blew up and took the motherboard and harddrives with it). School has kept me super busy. This year we are doing 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, our first musical...

only? I was hoping to get away paying $50 or less :)

well, I've found an "LX-800" board that looks nice, and yeah I know I could make one easily, but I don't want to :)

I am looking for a used, cheap but in ok condition board that will control atleast 8 lights (two 4 channel dimmer packs), and the only inputs I have are 0-10v analog, I believe with a 6 pin cable of some sort. I have two packs, but I am having trouble finding an old lighting board. Does anyone...

I cna make a fog machine shoot in almost any direction I wish if I use a long section of vacuum hosing I have. Infact, I have been using tubing recently to direct and cool the fog. The longer the hose, the more the fog stays on the ground. It does condense seomwhat on the inside of the hose...

Ihad a very similar thing happen to me once, the fog just stopped at a certain point...I didn't even notice it from my spot in the wings very well, but afterwards, several people were blown away by how I could control the fog. Turns out, well let me explain, it was for a "human video"...