Greetings, one and all! Well, this week went from
uncertainty about exactly what would be accomplished this week to frantically
running over hill and dale, taking advantage of the opportunities that
presented themselves.
The week opened casually enough. We finally had the matching availability with
one of our stunties to go on a location scout. However, his availability was
either right now, or at the end of the week, so we hurried out to kick things
off.
Good thing, too. It was a beautiful little location that the pictures don’t really do justice. Now we just have to figure out how to sync up schedules for filming… Which brings us to another one of the big jobs for the week: Trying to schedule the shoots. This generation of stunties seem to have all decided to have a busy summer at the same time, but not on the same weeks, so finding that one day that everyone can be together for the big fight scene has been… interesting.
Anyway, after that we found a local source for some black plastic pallets, which have something of a history standing in as the decking for gritty, industrial starships. They were also a good price, so we arranged a meeting with the seller and, within two hours, were cramming the suburban as full of the bulky pallets as we could.
Then came the end of the week, and yet another excursion. This one to explore a discount hardware spot and a local hobby shop that I was somehow ignorant of. The former for props and set dressing, and the latter to find greebles (a term invented by George Lucas) to detail starships for our big upcoming project.
Both endeavors were fairly successful, with us finding pieces to detail walls and control panels, as well as the “seal” for the side of the datapads at the first location, and a reasonably priced WW2 armor kit with a ton of pieces at the second. And that's not even covering the false starts we had this week, or the two music sessions we had. All in all, a busy, tiring, and productive week.
Well, that’s about all for this week. Until next time!