The First Prop you ever made.
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PHArchivist
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Thank you! It was corrugated plastic plumbing tube stretched and pinned over a wooden dowel. Oh and there's some sprinkler parts in there too!
burningman
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mine would be a set of Freddy glove from the first Nightmare movie using the tutorial included at the begining of the film
After making a wooden Solo blaster and a light saber out of a broom handle in my early teens, the first "real" prop was this blaster using a Boba Debt kit with a revised scope mount that I got later. I sold it here on the RPF a while back, but wish I had held on to it.
Zombie_61
Master Member
The first props I ever built were a communicator and Type 2 phaser from Star Trek TOS, made from heavy poster board using dimensions from Franz Josephs Starfleet Technical Manual published in 1975. Unfortunately, I have no photos of either.
This is the first (and only) prop I built that I have a photo of:
Except for the replica emitter, clamp, bubbles, and pommel, it's made from items purchased at Lowe's.
This is the first (and only) prop I built that I have a photo of:
Except for the replica emitter, clamp, bubbles, and pommel, it's made from items purchased at Lowe's.
I was always a SciFi fan... as a child I remember making a Luger Parabelliun water gun into a Flash Gorden type ray gun by gluing some knobs on to it...
And using a cars paper air filter as a space suit helmet ring, with no helmet...
I still think those Lugers make great feeling ray guns...
And I did see that Commander Cody did too as that is what they used in the show.
Rich
And using a cars paper air filter as a space suit helmet ring, with no helmet...
I still think those Lugers make great feeling ray guns...
And I did see that Commander Cody did too as that is what they used in the show.
Rich
t_bone9600
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Here's my first prop. After seeing the hairdryer part on POSW I remembered that there was on of them in the back of a closet at my parents so I laid claim to it and started building.
Contec
Master Member
My "first" prop was a hoverboard from BTTF 2, It was bad....really bad. Just a piece of wood.:rolleyes
Here is a Lightsaber i made in 1998 i think. Made from household paper roll.
It have lost a few details like the edmitter and some grips
This one i made a few days later, This is more detailed.
Here is the first startrek prop i made
At the time i thougth it looked good, but now i know better....
So at a later time i went back and used layered plastic to cut out a new one:
I only had that picture of the knife for reference.
Old one
New one
/Conny
Here is a Lightsaber i made in 1998 i think. Made from household paper roll.
It have lost a few details like the edmitter and some grips
This one i made a few days later, This is more detailed.
Here is the first startrek prop i made
At the time i thougth it looked good, but now i know better....
So at a later time i went back and used layered plastic to cut out a new one:
I only had that picture of the knife for reference.
Old one
New one
/Conny
00MrNotWrong00
Sr Member
This is that awesome book I was talking about in an earlier post. If you are even remotely interested in prop production you should pick this one up.
sebmodio
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My first hardware lightsaber
http://propaholics.wolfchasers.com/uploader/users/Beesa-Pesal/DSC05203.jpg
http://propaholics.wolfchasers.com/uploader/users/Beesa-Pesal/DSC05203.jpg
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a freddy glove made with plastic card and a riggers glove...must be about 18 years ago at least.
i didnt know it at the time but it what i would get into several years later. the next thing i think was a bjork "all is full of love" robot head. or r2-d2 dome, i cant remember it was so many pounds £££ ago:cry
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i didnt know it at the time but it what i would get into several years later. the next thing i think was a bjork "all is full of love" robot head. or r2-d2 dome, i cant remember it was so many pounds £££ ago:cry
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This was my first prop. It is a 100% real Graflex. It was made back in the day when we all used 6 rubber grips and put the chrome tape on the clamp. I plan to replace the incorrect d-ring, remove the tape, get a real bubble strip, and attach 7 real T-track grips.
MooCriket
Master Member
My "first" prop was a hoverboard from BTTF 2, It was bad....really bad. Just a piece of wood.:rolleyes
Here is a Lightsaber i made in 1998 i think. Made from household paper roll.
It have lost a few details like the edmitter and some grips
This one i made a few days later, This is more detailed.
Here is the first startrek prop i made
At the time i thougth it looked good, but now i know better....
So at a later time i went back and used layered plastic to cut out a new one:
I only had that picture of the knife for reference.
Old one
/Conny
:lolLove what you did! I don't think I'll ever look at an empty tp roll the same way:thumbsup Now that's talent
thumbsup I wish I had the imagination you posess to see things that way.
I must appologise for the poor quality pictures you are about to see. They are captured from 22 year old VHS tapes.
Well, the first 'real' prop I made was a Graflex Luke ANH saber in 2002.
But, the first 'prop' I recall making was a Freddy Krueger glove for a movie I made in 1986. Sadly that movie no longer exists...
But its sequel made in 1987 does still exist! The claw is painted cardboard over an old glove painted gray.
And this was the upgraded glove for the third movie in the trilogy, made in 1988. This one had metal blades:
Here and there during these movies you can catch a glimpse of some other stuff I made around that time.
Paper mache Visitor mask:
Zoomed Visitor mask:
On top of the cupboards in this shot of Freddy from Part 2 are an Imperial Shuttle and "V" landing craft made from card. And I think that's a "V" fighter behind the landing craft:
And on top of the same cupboards in Part 3 is a Scout Walker made from cardboard painted silver. That's actually a blue transformer type robot called a 'Megabot' (another movie I was working on which was never completed) propping up the scout walker:
Oh, this was the new improved Freddy costume I made for Part 3!
And I built dummies for certain shots:
On reflection, we probably shouldn't have just left this dummy burning in the grassy fields behind our house when we'd finished! It looked pretty grusome the next day cos all that was left was the burnt out shape but the feet/shoes were still intact!
Well, the first 'real' prop I made was a Graflex Luke ANH saber in 2002.
But, the first 'prop' I recall making was a Freddy Krueger glove for a movie I made in 1986. Sadly that movie no longer exists...
But its sequel made in 1987 does still exist! The claw is painted cardboard over an old glove painted gray.
And this was the upgraded glove for the third movie in the trilogy, made in 1988. This one had metal blades:
Here and there during these movies you can catch a glimpse of some other stuff I made around that time.
Paper mache Visitor mask:
Zoomed Visitor mask:
On top of the cupboards in this shot of Freddy from Part 2 are an Imperial Shuttle and "V" landing craft made from card. And I think that's a "V" fighter behind the landing craft:
And on top of the same cupboards in Part 3 is a Scout Walker made from cardboard painted silver. That's actually a blue transformer type robot called a 'Megabot' (another movie I was working on which was never completed) propping up the scout walker:
Oh, this was the new improved Freddy costume I made for Part 3!
And I built dummies for certain shots:
On reflection, we probably shouldn't have just left this dummy burning in the grassy fields behind our house when we'd finished! It looked pretty grusome the next day cos all that was left was the burnt out shape but the feet/shoes were still intact!
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Laffo
Sr Member
All the first prop pics lost to water damage but here's the 1999 Vader, and his pals, all homemade, for our band Grand Moff Tarkin:
http://www.geocities.com/dex1138/swmusic_gmt.html
The first Stormtrooper was made out of Bathmats and Milk Jugs because Mike Glover had screwed us. Sure they aren't that correct, but we had to play an hour of Punk Rock in them. All the sets and guns are made from Gatorade bottles and we had a functioning Sarlaac and an Exploding Death Star. Tons of Pyro, this was before Great White. Had some great shows with GWAR and The Misfits.
I think the most fun to make were the Dancing Girls costumes:
The Death Star Stewardesses where my favorite.
Laffo.
http://www.geocities.com/dex1138/swmusic_gmt.html
The first Stormtrooper was made out of Bathmats and Milk Jugs because Mike Glover had screwed us. Sure they aren't that correct, but we had to play an hour of Punk Rock in them. All the sets and guns are made from Gatorade bottles and we had a functioning Sarlaac and an Exploding Death Star. Tons of Pyro, this was before Great White. Had some great shows with GWAR and The Misfits.
I think the most fun to make were the Dancing Girls costumes:
The Death Star Stewardesses where my favorite.
Laffo.
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PHArchivist
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:lol
Or
Not too sure, really...
Clearly she's been to the "School of Slave Leia Posing"
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