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A guy at the prop house told me the secret to fake ice cubes is glycerin and water, not resin.
He showed me a jar of them he made for a bar scene, saying 'resin yellows under the lights in two hours, but this mix stays clear for the whole shoot', and now I won't use anything else for close-up drink shots.
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piper1751mo ago
Seriously? Glycerin is a huge pain to clean up. That sticky mess will ruin a glass prop faster than resin yellows. I'd rather swap out resin cubes a few times.
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ninas701mo ago
Okay but the one time I tried glycerin it somehow got on my keyboard and my space bar was sticky for a month. Felt like I was typing through syrup, maybe I'm just a mess magnet.
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