Making a Control Pannel Prop.

[@Laurabeck329]

I really like that '60s b-movie aesthetic going on there.

[@GraceWillow]

You made this look so effortless OMG! I need to see this movie.

[@EvilTedSmith]

If any body could do this...You can. You have mad crafty skills.

[@marcusosterholm3755]

Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪. Thank you for your awesome video

[@EvilTedSmith]

Thanks for watching!

[@Serath1314]

I like to use the multicolored lights for stuff like this, also the ones that cycle through it's different phases are good as well. another great vid Ted thanks for sharing.

[@EvilTedSmith]

Thanks for watching & subscribing.

[@dfcprops3849]

Looks so amazing! And for probably really cheap... you've inspired me to go make some myself.

[@EvilTedSmith]

Yes cheap control panels.

[@Special-Delivery57]

Truly awesome man!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@EvilTedSmith]

Glad you think so!

[@oregomm]

Now I want to see your friend's movie!

[@waldemargoncalves7273]

Simplesmente sensacional!!!!!

[@EvilTedSmith]

Thank you.

[@MakeBrooklyn]

Awesome!! Can't wait to see this film!!

[@EvilTedSmith]

Yeah me too.

[@Alan_AB]

I love this. Where did you get the styrene boards from?

[@trekguy66]

Excellent job as always, Ted! (Hellfire Zombie)

[@EvilTedSmith]

Hey Hellfire.

[@BlueStarBrony]

Nice! Lol I just bought some of those of those lights from CVS!

[@paulpethers4234]

cool set piece

[@BackFromUranus]

Hi Ted! Regarding foam heating...is one of those small culinary blowtorches a viable alternative?

[@billyminefee3667]

When does the movie come out?

[@EvilTedSmith]

I think some time next year. I'll keep you posted.

[@dasaiyan4479]

Great vids

[@PrimalEdge]

totally groovy

[@sebastiantreloar6045]

Why not vac form them at the start with the sides so you don’t have to glue some on later and also make it look better from the side

[@EvilTedSmith]

That's what I wanted to do...But they were bad pulls, and the sides were no good. So I had to add the sides.

[@sebastiantreloar6045]

Evil Ted Smith I thought that might be the case. I don't have any experience with vacuum forming

[@RedFueled]

Neat!

[@matthias8122]

What would you recommend doing if you don't have access to a vacuum form?

[@KarriKoivusalo]

Okay this is a cheap shot but... then you should build one. (Seriously though, it's a trivial task)

[@nympseudonym]

You could probably make something like this out of craft foam.

[@ChristopherPayneMUA]

My first thought would be blister packaging from various products. You could cobble some of them together into a single panel and use metal strips / stickers / whatever to hide the seams.

[@Riceball01]

In addition to craft foam, as somebody suggested, you could use cardboard or glue sheets of sheet styrene, you can buy these from any decent hobby shop or order them online.

[@ChristopherPayneMUA]

Styrofoam packing materials (like you'd find cushioning a TV inside its box) also has some pretty interesting shapes.

[@shanekuchler6220]

give them away on Ebay, put a bid on it.......hmmmmmm

[@EnAimBoy]

You could also use a string of serially addressable lights and a small microcontroller as a comparative a simple way of getting all the lights blinking in different ways.... or you could actually use it show meaningful data without having to devote a single IO line for every light

[@walkmanamtc]

Agreed - with every light blinking at once, it feels like the system needs to be rebooted.

[@EvilTedSmith]

I had one day to make them...

[@walkmanamtc]

C'mon -a Raspberry Pi and a quick Python script? You know how high the bar is for you ;) KIDDING! Love the work, and it was a nice build. Love the videos and you've inspired me to do some of these projects myself. Couldn't pull that off in a day, so I guess I can give you a break :D

[@EnAimBoy]

Evil Ted Smith I wasn't criticizing just suggesting if somebody wants to and has time to take it further

[@EvilTedSmith]

OK.

[@GakkiSai]

I'm generally a fan, but those stickers look pretty bad man.

[@avidwriter2882]

It's probably a low budget movie so he went low budget here. Also for something in the background that wil probably never be up-close or fully in-focus, this will probably be great.

[@Riceball01]

There used to be something called the 10 foot rule, a prop or set piece only had to look good from 10 feet away. That's because the resolution of TV screens and to a degree film, used to be that anything from further than 10' away wouldn't show up clearly enough for any details to be clearly visible. This is why prop/set designers used to put joke text on video screens knowing that no one will be able to read them. Of course HD has changed this to more of a 5' rule but the basic idea still stands, if it's not going to be seen up close then it doesn't need to be highly detailed or that well done.