Thread: Fake Fire

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Just wondering how people are making fake fire with lighting, fans, w.e your using lets see some pics or hear ideas. Im looking for some ideas for my chop shop oven.

There was a thread on here where he made his house look like it was on fire and explained how he did it:
My house caught on fire.
Hopefully this helps!

Im looking to do something that looks more of a firepit because I have a clothes hanger that i made to spin and I want to roast body parts as it spins over an open flame. But that is very cool and I think Ill do it for one of my windows in my haunted town since I painted a building that now looks like it caught fire.

Theres a great tutorial called "glowing hot coals". Search for it in the tutorial section. Theres been many incarnations of the original prop and maybe something there in that thread will help inspire your prop. I built a campfire version of the glowing hot coal for my stirring witch. Check out my albums if you want to see it.

Hey, Cyclone Jack (I love Zombie's song Living Dead Girl!)

I used strings of C-7 flicker bulbs from Michaels, as well as a flaming cauldron (silk & fan) for the roasting pit at out party last Saturday. The lights were just interwoven throughout the firewood:



Eric

Thanks for your help all looks amazing, Im actually got a build in my scene where it looks burnt since i messed up on the paint job so im just gonna make it look like its on fire anyways. I like the glowing hot coals and the flickering bulb idea im heading to Michaels now.

Glowing coals effect

Cheap & easy.

A prop I am working on for next year. I have a blower from an old inflatable that I will attach to one end of a 6 or 8 inch drainage pipe. The other end is sealed off. I have a small fog machine that will fit into the pipe, just in front of the blower so that the air will blow around and past it. Drill many holes in the pipe down the length of it. When the fog is on and the blower is running it will be forced through the holes. If the proportions are correct I will have low density and high velocity fog. Then place a strip of yellow or orange LED's down the length of the pipe just behind the holes and out of sight from the viewers. When the fog passed through the light it will look like fire. The color will change to red as the flame gets longer. Check out this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bMpLOV0BhY

Fright props sells a unit that will simulate fire, candles and a flickering light effect.

I can imagine a combination of glowing coals and a fan/fabric flame would be the goal here.

How about this.... go get three or four large computer chassis fans. Make some fabric flames attached over these fans. Put them into a Great Stuff fire base. This lets you surround the firepit with glowing coals, and have the flickering flame throughout.