[Frameworks] Explosives for space pirates film

[Steven]

So, if you are doing anything more "explosive" than Flash paper. Find 
someone who knows what they are doing and have done this before.Failing 
to respect your media, any media leads to mistakes, and with anything 
that burns or explodes. . .

Sure sure I'm being overly cautious but people who load black powder are 
not blowing up models, they are different applications.

How do you want to blow it up, slowly in sections, one big bang? 
Fire/Flame - not in space, probably would ruin your effect anyway.

How many models can you blow up?
Perhaps instead you want to buy some explosions and do it in electronic 
post?

Remember the over-cranking calculation when working with models, which i 
can't remember right now, but I'm sure Scott Dorsey will. I think it is 
1/4 scale model = 4x over-cranking.

I once shot some balloons being shredded for an artist, we shot 5,000 
fps (Redlake HyCam 16mm), because the artest really wanted to see his 
sculpture shredding. We found a pyro guy, who had access to everything 
we needed, big open field, and the knowledge. He chose to use what he 
called dust, which was very very fine shot in shotgun shells (who knew 
such things existed?) He built a rig to fire ten shotgun shells at once, 
test fired it to aim a few times, first time it kicked so much, we added 
more sand bags to hold it down. Then I asked the pyro guy why his head 
was bleeding, he said that one of the pipes he had wlded to the rig to 
use as the gun barrels had broken free of the weld, flown twenty feet 
through the air backward and took a piece of his hairline. A check of 
the rig showed another weld had broken, so we were down to 8 
pipes/barrels. The rig didn't fire on the first roll of film - one power 
outlet on the quad box was broken - wasted 400 feet in about 5 seconds. 
But the next shot everything worked, although I doubt the rig would ever 
fire again. This was with a guy who had been doing pyro effects for a 
while, and that was what he was focussing on and studying. Just some 
food for thought.

On 9/8/13 6:35 PM, ben.weinstein at mindspring.com wrote:
> Hey,
> I'm making a space pirates stop motion film and I was wondering if 
> anyone knew where I could acquire black powder to blow up model space 
> ships with.  I know you can buy it in cans somewhere but I cant find a 
> place in New York that sells any explosives. Do I have to go to the 
> south or something?  Any info is much appreciated.  Thanx.

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