Heaven
Heaven- special effects and filmmaking
This guy who lives north of me, by the Kennedy Space Center bought all this old junk! His yard was like 5 acres and it was packed with old junk from the little pieces from the apallo missions, switches on elaborate consoles, all the way to giant pieces of an early prototype of the US's Concord! He was crazy or something and commited suicide or he was murdered, I dont remember. We bought tons of stuff and I am in HEAVEN!!!
that sounds pretty cool,well except for the suicide thing. wanna sell any dashboard looking pieces?
later
Tom
US Concord?
Afraid you've been done on that one.
Concord was a uk/French project.
Have a good weekend.
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I Thank You
Ah, man, Heaven is right. Here (Va) we have a military/medical surplus place called Grande Junction that sells a lot of similar (Although not nasa) stuff. I am a sci fi nut and I always wanted to build my own techno-sets. I have been collecting small bit's and pieces of technojunk for a few years now. Mostly small pieces, but I do have some naval boards with rows of toggle and lights and all manner of cool stuff. The medical stuff, mostly still in sterile wrap, droppers, O2 tubing, bloodpressure cuff, that sorta thing.
But my fave is a hundred count of disposable bags, 18' by 26' still in wrap all of which say Bio-Hazard, contaminated materials with other writing and the bio-hazard symbol in the center. Too cool looking!
A tip I have always followed is never throw anything away that you can use in the future, headphones, portable telephones that no longer work, all are good props (And if a scene calls you to break a portable phone, who cares, it was for the trashcan before you snagged it.) A good example would be medicine bottles, when finished, if you have a scene where the cabinet is open and need bottles to show a junkie or sick/dying person, fill these with sugar pills or tic tacs or whatnot and use em. (Just don't ever use any old medicine, throw them away. The bottle is the selling point anyway.)
You lucked out, though.
By the way, does anyone know of naval or other military/government auctions open to the public? I try to catch one every now again, but they never have any usable stuff (Not within my price range)?
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SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
I know about the concord... The US developed one first but it wa too loud, so they scraped it!
Anyway I found out what happened to it. The GIGANTIC plane now can fit into the back of a dump truck, becase its in the shape of two metal slabs! That really ticks me off!
There are also Space Center Auctions....
My cousin's dad is a genious and builds rocket engines all the time and stuff so the goes to the auctions.
He bought an entire gaurd house like the ones in front of air force bases for 5$!!!
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