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    "Big River" giant catfish

    I need ideas. It needs to be pretty large, 5 or 6', and it is "gutted" so props fall out of it.This is my first time working on this show. How have you seen it done/made? Any ideas would be great! Thanks!
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    Simulating flying in an airplane

    I'm designing Sky Girls by Jenny Laird and there are many scenes where the girls are flying in airplanes. My design is a single unit set to look like an Avenger Field barracks. To help communicate the flying scenes, we so far have a cyc behind the stage walls for the lighting designer to play...
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    Character renovates a set between scenes

    I'm scene designing a show this summer (I Ought to be in Pictures by Neil Simon) and need to come up with a solution for the part when the daughter redecorates her father's home. This includes the fact that she re-paints the walls. The space we're in is very small, so rotating walls is not an...
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    Vacuforming

    Thank you both for the help--I only asked about plexi because I knew I could find sheets of it at a local craft store. Could something like this be vacuformed?: Grafix 12''x12'' .020 Plastic Sheets - 25PK/Clear & paper at Joann.comThe shop at my university just recently got a new vacuform...
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    Vacuforming

    I was wondering if plexiglass works in a vacuform? Specifically, small sheets of plexiglass bought from a craft store like Hobby Lobby.I need sheets of plastic to be used in a vacuform (or do sheets of anything else work?), PREFERABLY something I don't have to order. Something that I can buy...
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    Ten Little Soldier Boys (Props!)

    You have a good point, however these are the demands of the director. She wants them to be seen from the audience.
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    Ten Little Soldier Boys (Props!)

    I'm doing Props for a production of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" and I need help coming up with some solutions for these ten little soldier boy figurines. I need 10 and maybe some extras, and they will be recognizably British. They also need to be about a foot tall.Any ideas...
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