Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Hazardous Material Canister
This week I am going to cover a staple of the Mad Scientists lab, the Hazardous Material Canister. It can hold just about any horrible perversion of nature and science that a Mad Scientist can imagine, from horrible mutagens, to radioactive goos, and even the occasional horrible radioactive mutagenic goo. And i'm going to show you how to make your own to have in your laboratory without getting some kind of exotic cancer or turning into a swamp creature.
I started out with this squeeze water-bottle I found at the local dollar store, I tore off the foam around the center, and tore the straw piece inside of the bottle out, and tore off the flip up mouth piece on top of it. I also gave the lid a nice coat of silver paint. You could easily go with Bronze or Gold if you want to go with a more classical look, or if your evil scientist happens to live in the Victorian era.
I got a soda can, and cut off the bottom.
And then I went at the edges of it with some scissors to even it out some more, before I took it outside and hit it with a layer of silver spraypaint as well.
I stuck it on the bottom of the bottle, so it has a nice closed in look, makes it look more like a canister instead of just a bottle.
Now comes the radioactive goo. I mixed a little Irish Spring soap, some green acrylic paint, some hair gel, and some white school glue together, and shook them up in this glass bottle I had laying around. Just whatever goopy material I could find on hand. You could easily find recipes for better looking, or slimier looking slimes all over the internet. Also, you don't have to make it green, just green slime seemed the right choice for me, you can do whatever color you want.
And there you go, you have a can of potentially horrifically destructive radioactive goo in a can for your evil laboratory. If you want it to have a faint glow, you could easily suspend a glow stick in the mixture, or put a mini-clip light in the bottom of the canister, to give a faint glow to the liquid. Or even put some lights behind the liquid when it's set up in your lab. More translucent liquids are easier to make glow, so keep that in mind when looking for goop recipes to fill the canister with.
You can find all sorts of Hazardous chemical or radioactive symbols to slap on your canister in a simple image search on-line, so just so some searches for something that fits your purposes the best, or even see if you can find some black and yellow warning tape.
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Sweet nice build!
cool
Thanks for the comment on "the victorian Era" scientists, I will definately use this for TSCS!
Great tutorial, Wesley!
Maybe you can fill it with a mixture of goo and glow-in-the-dark goo for a nice glowing effect.
great tutorial
nice work
like always
Reminds me of the TGRI mutagen containers from the Ninja Turtles. Love it!
That is way cool!! i liked that alot i think im going to make a movie now
Now this is something I can use.
Warning: Not suitable for children under the age of anything.
i gots to do that! its so sweet!
You could use Mt Dew as the slime, it's nasty enough to be radioactive mutanegenic goo
Cool! Good job Wess. I can think of a use for this already! And just hink, if you had not made this tutorial I would never have known that a canister of radio active goo was missing from the background of the "genius" secret lb!!!!
If you get a little LED w/ a battery, and then get a perspex-y ring to stop it getting gooey, it will glow eerily.
This is really cool! I agree, an LED light would be a great idea!
So many cool effects, so little time!
thats really good and to make it even cooler you could maybe stick a glo-stick in there
It looks awesome
I was wondering, since you have been doing a lot of Biohazard stuff lately, can you do a biohazzard suit????? Please do one if you can.
just out of curiosity, what did the water bottle look like before you took the foam off? can you remember if it had a specific name, or was it just a generic bottle?
It was just a generic water bottle. The top and the foam was seafoam green, they also had pink, blue, and yellow versions. It was just a generic no name brand that I found for a dollar at the local Dollar General.
ok, thanks.
Only one problem I see with the build, Wes, and that's purely a local (Michigan) thing... pop cans carry a 10 cent deposit in the state, so most of us turn them in for the cash rather than cut them up for props.
Oh, well, there's always Ohio... (sixty miles away, and no deposit/no return)
Cheers!
i used a glowstick in my slime, but it wasn't bright enough so i used two tiny taplights on each end.