Your'e A Good Man Charlie Brown Set Model

This is a set model I made for college, the dog house is over sized and the piano is under sized, the proportions look very strange, but this is intentional! :)

Loch Ness Monster Sock Puppet

I am now attending the RCS prodcution juniors and this was the homework for this week. Puppet making Homework, now that's my kind of homework! 

My sister had some wellie socks that were too small for her, these were absolutely perfect for the idea I had in mind so I grabbed them!

I then cut a mouth hole in the heel. I turned the puppet inside out and stuck my mouth plate in with hot glue. (there is red felt on the other side of the mouthplate which you can't see) 

I then rolled up the end of the sock which gave me the nose of the puppet, yay! This I also hot glued.

I made a stuffing pillow and hot glued this to the inside of the puppet head, this gave the head some shape.I then made brows for the felt eyes to b glued to. I also made a tartan hat (fabric sourced from a picnic mat, shhhh, don't tell anyone!)

And bam! We now have a loch ness monster sock puppet!

Guitar Amplifier

Prop makers have to be knowledgeable in many areas, I chose this project as I felt that I needed to improve my carpentry skills.

I'd heard that dove tails were quite challenging (especially to woodworking newbies) so I decided to jump in at the deep end and use dove tails to attach the box together. Different types of wood change the tone of sound coming from the amp, If you don't want the material to effect the sound, choose MDF as it is tonally dead. This would have been my choice, but I needed to carve out dovetails, so MDF was definitely not an option. I decided to use plywood as this behaves more like real wood, it's also very cheap and looks whole lot nicer than MDF!

I found lots of resources that helped me figure out how I was going to cut the dovetails, I found this tutorial very useful:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJn72yRcuM&list=PLb05GHmjNNyB41FSa5gojRdPcOHQTV-1H&index=1

Now for some pictures!

I started out by making 1:1 scale pictures of the amp in Photoshop. I printed out the plans on A3 paper.

I made a 25° marking and cutting gauge to ensure that all angles would be the same. 

After all angles were cut I used a coping saw to cut out most of the unwanted material. I then used a chisel to take away the material closer to the line.

Ta-da! Here are the pins:

Here are the tails:

After the dovetails were cut I glued all the pieces together. The next step was the front panel, I needed to cut a hole for the speaker to go through, I also wanted it inset so the rim of the speaker would sit flush with the wood. I made a jig for my router so it could cut perfect circles (The jig was less than kosher so I'll save you the picture)

I cut the hole in the back panel with my jig saw. I bought some batons and glued them to the inside of the amp, I then glued the front panel to the batons. The back cover couldn't be stuck down permanently so I used two corner brackets and screwed one side into the baton and the other into the back panel. When the back cover needs to come off, you can just unscrew the screw from the baton. 

The Finished Amp!

80s Food Stuffs!

I've had an absolutely incredible time making props for a show called Shirley Valentine. The show is set in the 80s so I used Photoshop to re-create all the old labels. Most of the image references I could find were of a terrible quality so I had to start from scratch with most of them.

Sugar label and product:   (click to enlarge)

Cornflakes label and product:

Fairy Liquid Label and product:

Mother's Pride label and product:

Walkers Crisps label (forgot to take picture of product!)

Blue Nun Labels and Product

Sun tan lotion label and product:

PGtips Label and product:

Tin labels and products:

Vogue Magazine Cover:

Plane ticket:

Smash tin and label:

Crisp 'n Dry label and product:

 BUN Vanilla Ice cream label and product: