From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 03:06:14 MDT
Ideas: electrode gel; tar; glycerine on a clear PVC sheet backing; garlic
juice (sticky but flexible); liquid latex. Tar might be your best bet for
sticking that long, but I make no guarantees about safety. There are various
tree-gum based products available from theatrical supply houses, or there used
to be.
You don't describe precisely how big the things are, what the contact patch
size and location is, what the doohickeys mass, or why you need to keep them
on for 24 hrs. The last one is the toughie.
People skin will sweat, shed, contract, expand and twist. Especially under hot
light, pro makeup people are used to doing very frequent touchups, sometimes
before every _take_ if conditions are challenging enough.
Alex Ramonsky wrote:
>
> I am helping out a friend with some HGI SFX for a movie. We need to
> find the stickiest substance known to sentientkind. It needs to be able
> to stick bits of metal and plastic to human skin without causing any
> serious skin problems and they need to stay on for at least 24 hours a
> time. The 'prostheses' are very light, but we've tried medical grade
> adhesive and superglue, neither of which are sticky enough. We are
> shaving the areas first. How do you get things to stick to humans? How
> do the borg do it? And those back-of-the-hand communicators in Babylon
> 5? Or does everybody just put up with things falling off all day long?
> Sticky ideas please!
> Ramonsky
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