Smoke/Fog in Display boards...

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**Mahu**

For my newest army, I want an extremely impressive display board for if I take them to Adepticon or something along those lines. So I plan on LEDs and sounds to run rampant, but I figured there has to be a way to distribute smoke or fog to key areas in the board. So far I am thinking of running a sealed container with pipes throught the board, and just having dry ice in water, then sealing the container. Anybody know if the fog generated by that combination has enough pressure to force the fog through the pipes or hose? Any body have a better way? Thanks

**killerdou**

well there are some machines availeble @ **** (you know the importent 4 letter sell/buy site) <CENSER, stuf buy to place good pretty a its you tell have just i>that do the same job(i've seen them @ some parties) those spit out the fog about 2 meters in a straigt line, no idea what they cost though(you know how to work with electronics do you else i'd be glad to help you)

**Hobbes**

Ever seen a diffuser, you basically place it in water and plug it in and it creates mist! Can be found nearly anywhere for somewahere around $60 US

Good Luck!

**Hellfury**

I think your dry ice idea is by far the safest for your board and models.

using water is not good for the models or especially the board. You'll be pluckingoff wet models to play with, leading to the surreal sight of you blow drying your marines hair before every match after their strictly platonic, yet highly arousing all male steam bath ( I know it isnt really steam, but ultrasonically agitated water to form vapor, but still, the sight is too weird). While the fog machine uses chemicals that will eventually build up and ruin your good paint jobs.

Dry ice simply releases carbon dioxide that is in the form of a solid back into a gas, which from what I understand, wont harm your models. In fact, it may be good for them. Thatll be one of the few times you paint job wont be slowly oxidizing...

**Mahu**

Posted By Hellfury on 04/09/2006 8:44 PM
I think your dry ice idea is by far the safest for your board and models.

using water is not good for the models or especially the board. You'll be pluckingoff wet models to play with, leading to the surreal sight of you blow drying your marines hair before every match after their strictly platonic, yet highly arousing all male steam bath ( I know it isnt really steam, but ultrasonically agitated water to form vapor, but still, the sight is too weird). While the fog machine uses chemicals that will eventually build up and ruin your good paint jobs.

Dry ice simply releases carbon dioxide that is in the form of a solid back into a gas, which from what I understand, wont harm your models. In fact, it may be good for them. Thatll be one of the few times you paint job wont be slowly oxidizing...

That is what I was thinking, and I saw a sinilar method used at Adepticon. An Eldar army just had the CO2 flowing all around and had lights all over. What I am wondering is if you can feed that through pipes?

**Rygoth**

To answer your question, yes it should feed through the pipes if all is sealed well. An alternative would be whatever material it is they use for large scale model trains to make it look like they are actually smoking.

**FlatlanderBoss2.0**

The guys at Adepticon with the smoke was team "Craftworld Vern II: The Wrath of Vern".

It was made by their teammate, Mike Clark, who is a plumber and pipe-fitter.

The smoke was created with simple dry ice is a water suspension that only had one hole of escape...right under a plasmaball at the back of their bases display level...which was plexiglass with hundreds of fiber-optic lights underneath the plexiglass...so when viewd through the fog you don't see the tips of the fiber-optics, but moreso a glow if colors to represent planetary systems.

They tied with my team for Best Team Theme and Presentation (which we won) and had their armies all had matching bases, they would have walked away with our prize easily enough.

It's pretty obvious that those dedicated freaks helped Bloid raise the display-base bar. If you want to have smoke and lights, you'd better have good ones