Wesley Scoggins
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Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Prop Landmines
A common prop from War movies landmines have been a part of a lot of tense and dramatic moments on many many war films. Now, i'm going to show you how to make a type of landmine today that you can fit into your film.
First, I started with a styrofoam ball that I purchased at my local hobby and craft store.
Then I cut it in two...
Then roughly marked where the pressure pins were going to be pushed into the foam.
I then pushed wooden dowels into the foam, and glued them into place.
I then got a nut jar with a rubbery plastic top, and cut a hole in it.
Then pushed this can into the hole.
Then I hot glued the foam sections onto the top of the can.
I then painted it with a primer coat of dark silver paint.
I then painted it with a layer of Olive-Drab paint to make it look closer to military equipment. It would also be pretty easy to stencil a serial number or something on it to make it look more "official". Just do some distressing on it to reveal some of the silver paint underneath it, and you could even speckle it with some brown and red paint to give it an older rusted look.
But just bury it (if you're going to pull it up and defuse it or throw it around or something, make the entire thing) but to just have them spread on the ground, just make the top "mushroom" part and stick them into the ground.
When your character steps on it, just get a metal click noise (which you can either get off the free sound project, or record yourself by lightly hitting two metallic objects together) and add that in, then use something like the "Disappearing" trick where you just turn the camera off, then turn it back on, and toss in some debris flying in the air from detonation films, and it becomes pretty easy to make a really easy Exploding Landmine effect.
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