Gadgets Blog of Doom: 2014

1/22/14 - A fire in our neighbors unit calls for 60 fire fighters from 15 departments. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/01/fire_forces_evacuation_heavily.html Our unit is flooded with water, and the smoke and soot is impossible to see thru.

It is decided, that the best course of action for Forsaken, our insurance, and the building, is for us to tear down and move everything that wasn't garbage to Factory of Terror.

4/9/14 Matt, Chris and I palletized the que lines and took down the rope lights. Folded up all the tables and school tables.

4/10 Matt and I took down speakers

4/11 Mike Hach took down most of the que line fence. I helped finish. Took rest of speakers and audio boards down.

4/12 I took down wiring from greenhouse to bathroom. Matt took out tap cons

4/13 mike worked on a bunch Matt striped scenes from greenhouse to kitchen Corey and I took down wiring to cages.

4/16 took down Dock fence , loaded trailer 2

4/17 Matt dropped props, mike continued wiring removal on district, Steve fielder and I dropped walls and stacked them. Finished loading trailer 2 and it was swapped out.

4/18 chris and Matt drop half of manor and facade

4-19 chris and Matt drop the rest of manor

4/20 Matt loaded scenes in Gaylord's. Him and I took down paneling and parts or thunderdome

4/21 chris and I took bolts and supporting pieces out of thunderdome

4/21 thunderdome

4/23 Matt and I worked on thunderdome

4/24 Matt and I finished taking down thunderdome

4/25 mike Dan and chris finished taking down quarantine

4/26 destroyed everything. 3 flatbreads (24 stacks of 24 walls, butcher case, 100 cagemaze panels) 4 semi trailers filled most of district down, church down, manor facade down, part of dri strict facade down, lost of sweeping and cleaning. Pete wills, Marilyn, Matt, Corey, Diana, john and his 3 guys, Adam mike chris Dan

4/27 mike Diana me Andy, Steve Fielder Corey chunk Marilyn tore down tree, tore down sewer, loaded 2 more trailers with church courtyard, hospital sewer two and sewer

4/28 Matt and I took down sludge factory vortex and steam pipes

4/29 Matt and I loaded mechanics thru toy store into trailers. Mike and chris took down district facade. Matt and I came back and loaded warehouse, steam pipes, animations

4/30 Matt Steve and i loaded all the factory set props into a trailer. I got propane for forklifts.

5/1 John and his two guys, Steve, Matt, mike and I took down factory and vortex, packed two trailers. Mike and chris took down theater. Diana packed Gaylord's.

5/2 one of johns guys, mike, Steve, Matt, and I loaded trailers 13 and 14. Diana, her dad, mindy and her husband, frank and actors filled a 40 yard dumpster and swept and cleaned everything

5/3 mike and I loaded the last trailer. Took pizza warmer and coke cooler to chris shop. Two loads to Evilusions. I took down the main electrical panels and fire panels. I loaded the compressor into the trailer.

5/4 mike took down heat detectors. I lost my phone in the dumpster but found it.

5/5 scott came to pick up the scissor lift but the building was chained shut.

I never went back to the building after that. That was the end of Forsaken.

Chris and I have only done a few molds in fiberglass. This is the first proper one, done on a WED clay sculpture.

After sculpting, Chris added a mold wall using .02" x 4" aluminum sheeting. I sheared it into strips and he inserted it into the clay. We wanted to try molding both halves at once to save time, instead of using a clay mold wall, fiberglassing one side, waiting for it to cure, then molding the other half.

We sprayed three coats of PVA on each side. Then went over the aluminum with some sonite wax to he safe.

While the PVA was drying, I ripped off a bunch of sections of 38-1/2" 7-1/2oz fiberglass mat. This particular mat can only be used with polyester fiberglass resins. We prefer the mat over cloth for conformability to the sculpture.