Rocky Horror Show - 2006

• The Gates
• "The Slab"
• The Slab Cover
• Windows
• Platforms and Floor
  
• Back Wall
• Transit Crystals
  
<>Sonic Transducer (axed)
<>Fridge Door (axed)

• Medusa
  

The Gates

Gates set closed	Gates set open
Gateposts are actually two pieces, for reasons to be revealed shortly	Close-up of gates set with crosses, as church gate
Close-up of rear of gate, showing crosses afixed with double-sided velcro	Close-up of gates set with what will be a "keep out" sign, as castle gate
The finished "KEEP OUT!" sign.	Gates are painted and finished! Woo!

"The Slab"

the basic slab parts	Slab as car.  (Actual car sides, made of fiberglass over foam, to come)
Slab as lab table. (The slab)	Close-up of "the contraptions."  These clever 2x4s fit between small blocks of plywood to brace the various configurations together. Very solid, yet they slide right in and out.
Close-up of  "contraptions" in car mode.	Close-up of "contraptions" in slab mode.
Slab as bed	Slab as bed, along with separated gateposts, to form a very convincing 4-poster bed!

The Slab Cover

Slab with "head" part of cover.	Slab with both cover pieces in place.
"Head" part of cover, painted and scrimmed. A layer or two of "pet-resisting window screen," as it turns out, makes a pretty good stand-in for much more expensive scrim.  When lit from outside, it's nearly opaque...	"Head" part of cover, painted and scrimmed. ...and when lit from inside, you can see through it! (Yes, there is a reason for this, but I don't want to give it away quite yet.)
The rest of the cover gets its coat of paint.	The entire cover is covered in makeshift scrim.
The cover gets some color.	Various accoutrements  for the slab's controls.
The slab cover, all put together.	close-up of slab controls.  Tap-lights, a gerbil wheel, and an as-seen-on-tv food chopper.

Car

The car sides are taking shape.  They're still a little flat, I'd like them rounder, but I'm very nearly out of time.  They may stay as they are.	Together, not yet painted.  There are basically curtain rods holding the foam to the carts.  (I'll get a close-up of this here one of these days.) It was prone to breakage, and I ended up using a metric buttload of hot glue to keep these things together.  Fortunately, it never broke during a performance.
Painted a baby blue, masked, with grille and headlights.	Nice headlights!

Windows

The "short" window, at about 4'2".  PVC pipe bent and cemented under extreme tension. Nearly smacked myself in the face a handful of times.	The "short" window, laying on the ground with another 1'6" section on the bottom, to see how a taller window might look. (The taller window won out. So now, I make 5 more.)
If I can dig up a light that's capable of throwing a gobo pattern, I'd like to project this on the back wall during interior scenes, to sort of mask the painted outdoor scene.	The gobo pattern, which I'll have to cut myself.
And then there were six!  They still need painted.	...and, my mind visits the gutter.  I blame it on the fumes from the PVC cement.
Windows painted and hung.

Platforms and floor

Band's platform, showing painted floor detail and movable staircase.	The stack o' lumber.  Doesn't look like much yet.
One set of legs takes shape.  Five more to go! Woo!	Platforms start taking shape.
One of three finished platforms, waiting to be moved into place.  And a home-made ladder.	One tetanus shot later, (put a screwdriver bit through my thumbnail. Hurt/bled like a MOTHER!) the platforms have been moved into place!
Angle view of the platforms. They've changed a little bit from the original drawing -- more angled, less curved, and the steps are different, too, and worth a close-up look...	...This was a set of steps we had at the shop, which, by dumb luck, has the same rise and run as the steps now built into the platform. The step attached to the platform will be set as a mantle in some scenes, the space underneath, a fireplace.
Two coats of purple...	First coat of teal almost done...
First coat of teal, done! (By far THE MOST TEDIOUS paint job I've ever undertaken.)	Second coat of teal, and spatter applied --  The spatter's partly to break up the solid colors a bit, but also to help hide any scuffs and scrapes to the floor during rehearsals and performances. (A coat or two of clear poly ought to help that, too.)
Close up of splatter. Jackson Pollock I'm not.	Platforms assembled, with railings and whatnot.
Platforms painted, mostly masked.  Stairs painted.	Platforms are done!  The silver pieces are actually reversible tarp.  And they're actually reversible! (That's John, our music director with the stand-up bass.) And you can almost make out our strip- err... fireman's pole to stage right.
Stage set for "The Floorshow."

Back Wall

Back wall detail.	Back wall with gobo windows. (Same as above.)
Back wall starts to take shape.  My craft-store projector was money well spent way back when -- projector and a Sharpie marker made quick work of this outline.  (I do have a line or two wrong, but I'll fix 'em.	And then there were trees.
More paint on the back wall.	Still more paint on the back wall.
Just a teeny weeny little bit more painting to do, and the back wall will finally be done!	Finished gobo projected onto the back wall. (The other lights you see are on the front porch of the theatre -- the door's open.)

Transit Crystals

One constructed, the other nearing completion. Waiting for the pickle jar to dry.  No, the black isn't where they caught fire, that's just from where I spray-painted the light fixtures black.	Them transit crystals lit up like it was Christmas! Still need painted.
Transit crystals all painted a lovely shade of black.

Sonic Transducer

Transducer "control panel" -- Tap-lights, plywood, and a red silcone muffin pan.

The last-minute craptastic Sonic Transducer.  Neither I nor the director were all that pleased with it, so we cut it, and used instead the mylar columns I used in Leader of the Pack.

Fridge Door

Medusa

Medusa!

Medusa in action.