Very cool! Could you perhaps post a "recipe", of sorts, of how you created it. Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work.
Here's a recipe of sorts....
I used:
- 6mm MDF wood for the walls, base, stage, back & stage roof. There may be a better wood as I had great difficulty in nailing (very hard & some splitting of wood) & had to use glue & tape as well.
- card (folded over on itself several times to strengthen) for the orchestra pit wall as it is more bendy
- Curtain cloth; one type for walls, orchestra wall & balcony, another for the floor, another for the curtains & yet another for the back of the stage.
- golden embroidery sewed onto the curtain material for both the front curtain & the 'pelmet' (argh, sewing that was tedious
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- the balcony was tricky. I first made a large balcony that could take Statler & Waldorf's Victorian chairs but it looked way too big in relation to everything else. I cut up a circular storage box made of thick card to make the balcony.
- Got ribbon etc from the haberdashery section in a large department store.
- I added 20 fairy tree lights to a gap I left at the top of the back so that I can light up the inside stage (I originally started soldering LEDs together but this was taking ages so I opted for the Christmas fairy lights).
I spent about a week thinking at the back of my mind about the most practical & best looking design (you know, whilst walking home etc). I reckon it's worth putting a lot of thought & planning in if you want to get the dimensions right & avoid wasted effort.
The whole thing was great fun. The quality of the Palisades figures really inspired me. And it doesn't sound like we'll see a Palisades front stage set for at least another year.
Guess I should mention that I built it only for my own personal use, never to sell etc so that I don't get done for copyright.
Later,
Si
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