Never doubt in the darkness what you knew to be true in the light.
Saturday, 30 December 2006
Welcome to Theater Helper. This site is dedicated to providing advice and instruction in some of the areas of tech theater in which I feel more advice and instruction are needed. It was born when I was building a model one day and thinking back to the early days when the same tasks took me much longer to perform. So many times I have done something only to realize later that there was a faster and easier way to do the same thing. I am hoping the knowledge I share on this site will save others from some of my more frustrating experiences.
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Saturday, 30 December 2006
Model pieces are tiny, but sometimes to make them look perfect you just want to smooth out a corner, round over and edge or get rid of a rough spot.
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Saturday, 30 December 2006
Tacky glue comes in a few different brands, but is essentially Elmer’s school glue that hasn’t been watered down as much.If you have school glue, you can also leave it out in a puddle for a little while and it will get close to working as tacky glue does.
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Saturday, 30 December 2006
Some people use them for sewing, but I use them for models.I use both the kind with the balls on the ends and the kind with just the little silver nub.Sometimes I use pins when I’m making stair railings. Sometimes I use them to hold together scenery temporarily while I think it over.
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Saturday, 30 December 2006
Matte board is a great model building material. It is, essentially, an extra thick posterboard that comes in a variety of thicknesses and colors.
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Saturday, 30 December 2006
Masonite is essential industrial strength pulp (dust) and glue mixed and pressed together. It is really heavy, but has a nice, hard, durable surface. It responds to humidity by growing and shrinking slightly, but that affects large scale uses more than it does model building uses.
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Saturday, 30 December 2006
I love foam core when I’m roughing in a model, because it is so fast and easy to work with.I don’t like it as much in the finished product because it damages easily and making the edges look finished is a pain.If you are using hand tools, and don’t have a band saw at your disposal, this will be one of your main model building materials because it has thickness and can be easily cut with a matte or exact-o knife.
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