Deuceofspades
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Hi again Billy,
Did you have a chance to watch the "behind the scene" clip? It shows glimpses of us building the set. I have more footage so maybe I could just render the whole thing and upload it here. You guys could see how we built it.
THE JAIL SET
I designed the look of the set, my friend Jerry, who is a real handyman/hotrodder, designed the technical end of it. How the wood would be put together to interlock once nailed. Jerry used to work for Nasa (no, I'm not kidding) LOL so I guess if he can design satellites, wood sets are right up his alley LOL. HIm, Tim (my lead man) and I built it together over a week-end. It took 2 days.
Set size = 10 feet across X 6 feet deep.
Size was made to fit my garage but also I wanted the cell to be small, so we didn't build the set as big as we could have (maybe that was a mistake).
At the time we never anticipated using the same wood for a second set.
Cost of supplies = approximately $275
Jail set shape was:
THE HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM SET
We took the jail cell, flipped the walls around and covered the back side also with wood pannels (aka" skins") and painted them off white. We removed some of the extra walls to make it more "flat"
waiting room conversion of same wood panels was:
Note: the grey line was one additional plywood panel . The yellow line was a glass wall. We built a "glass" wall very 50's looking for the hospital, because that is what I "saw" in my head when I created the scene. Jerry volunteered to purchase the blocks because he needed them for a remodeling project for his house anyways. They were costly ($400 or so for the 4 feet by 6 feet wall section) ) so we didn't buy too many blocks. They are made of acrylics and are like lego. You can clip the blocks together and then undo them
. I must way the glass wall TOTALLY MADE THE SCENE. I will post screngrabs in a moment.We converted the set over a day and a half (one full saturday and one evening to do final adjustments), and it was just Jerry and I this time, since Tim is now wrapped.
Cost of converting jail set into hospital cell = $50 paint and misc hardware + $400 glass blocks.
As I said I "borrowed" the glass block and now Jerry will take them and build his windows at his house with them LOL. But they are now "famous" LOL.
Screengrabs of both sets in a moment:
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