Thursday, October 7, 2010

Locomotive theme for Toy Parade


Forgot to add: rear wheels would be 27" fronts from re-Cycles, and second small wheels would be 20".


8 comments:

  1. Add hula hoops to simulate the boiler tank.
    Can we run an electric kettle to supply steam to the stack?
    The rest looks great!

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  2. How about bubbles instead of steam? ;)

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  3. we could use a bicycle wheel ringed with lights on the front to give the shape of a boiler, with straight lines of lights leading back top and sides to give the boiler depth.

    As far as the kettle goes, they take a huge amount of power... I wonder if a mister would work? Or even burn something in a controlled fashion... That could be lit from underneath to highlight it. Oh, hey, just saw the bubbles idea, that's even better!

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  4. As for colours, blue for the locomotive, with white headlight and red rear marker lights, green for the passenger car, and red for the caboose.

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  5. Here's some
    doodles for the rest...

    holy crap... this lighting design needs 152' of blue, 123' of green and 63' of red for a total of 340' of Electro-Luminescent wire (that is $1.25/foot)

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  6. Can you get a bulk discount? (Or more importantly, do they have that much in stock?!?)

    - RG>

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  7. Here is the progress so far from the work party we had at Re-cycles on Saturday November 13th.

    Nick has access to a smoke machine. I've asked him to find out how much power it takes.

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  8. Hello Northern friends! Nothing helpful to post, just a big thank you for doing more cool stuff with your bikes!

    Cheers,

    Kevin

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