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Recommendations
There are, to be quite honest,
two schools of thought about building scenery. The
first school, I will call the dry school. The dry
school builds things and there are a whole bunch of
aesthetic and manufacturing concerns for the dry school.
The dry school, for instance, is always looking for
something that looks like a marine bunker that is
readily available and costs, hopefully, less than a
dollar. Dry school scenery manufacturers comb
dollar stores and Home Depot and Final Mark Downs, etc.,
looking for something that can be drilled, chopped,
glued, etc.. and laid down on the table. For the
most part, I think that when people think about making
scenery at all, they think of the dry people.
But then there are the wet
manufacturers and they too have their place. I
speak of course of the mold builders and those who cast
and pour. A whole new set of problems awaits them.
Air bubbles. Durable materials and their
procurement. Ready made molds.
Chemicals--endless chemicals, and most of them toxic.
This page is dedicated to those
two types of manufacturing. This is above and
beyond a simple declaration of which tools to use or
things to watch out for. I might easilly, here,
recommend Walmart just as much as I would recommend the
tech stick version of the tongue depressor. These
are products, tactics, what have you, that I 100%
endorse.
The list is divided as follows:
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