The magic flute....lets get bricking!

Finally it was on to the dreaded opera, The magic flute, with all its bricks (roughly calculated that's around 16, 401 bricks....) Seeing the pile of flats sitting in workshop did make me feel a little bit sick. And when Gary told us there had been some drawings missing during our samples and that each brick wasn't just a random size but actually the designer wanted each brick to be an exact height and width, we had to get our calculators out and spent quite a bit of time trying to work out what size to make each brick.

After an hour or so of calculations and mistakes we finally managed to figure out how we were to tackle this situation and, armed with a roll of masking tape, we all got sticking!
The first flat took a whole afternoon, actually it took from 10.30 until 5 to mark up, tape and idendine! But we did learn a lot from it.

When the second flat arrived I think there was a drop in motivation as we all realised that we had to do it all again. When the 3rd flat arrived...well...lets just say the i-pod was cranked up!

They are looking great though now we've got them all idendined and painted and up on the paint frame (luckily with only one accident and that was just Simon not concentrating on where he was hammering and hammered his hand....silly man!)

We started applying the size and managed to gold leaf a small section before Gary found some more plans which showed areas that would be hidden so didnt need to be made gold....

So the rest will be tomorrows task....before we head to the Lyceum for our mock interview!

Sons of Ulster

Last week was a funny old week. There wasn't much motivation going about and the days seemed to drag. It was pretty quite whilst we were waiting for the magic flute walls to be made.


Saz, Rosé and I were put in charge of the floor for the Tron show which we were pretty much left to our own devices as Emma's model left a lot to the imagination. It was to look like muddy WWII trenches. It was a good experience though, having to figure out what textures to use and how to give it depth and a muddy feel. After we got the hang of it and found out what worked I think it looked great.

After Emma okay'd it we packed it up and piled it in the corner ready for our next challenge.

Back to scenic.

So im now back in scenic after about 13 weeks off. I did feel a bit out of practise and it took me a couple of days to get back on my feet and the ways of scenic. but now im back I love it again. We've worked on the floor for the magic flute which looked pretty fabby. It was supposed to look like a 1950s linoleum and honestly i think we did a great job. Painting in the black squares got a bit tedious after a while but we stuck at it and made the time pass....somehow.
I think we were all pretty glad to get it up and piled in the corner. Just hope the designer likes it when she comes to see it!