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I use pine BP for all my stars. Gives nice tails I think. Haven't experimented too much with different spark producing charcoals, since I am happy with my pine... Have 6 more shells coming up for new years eve, including one red smoke shell. The effect will be drooping weeping willow red smoke stars. Need to get that shell really high up, since the stars have such long burntime.

BTW, I think that the difference between D1 glitter and FISH glitter is really well illustarted here. Whereas D1 glitter is very golden, the FISH glitter is more silvery(than the D1, but not silver glitter).

Found some old pictures of a small display I made some time ago. Hope it is okay that I post all the pics and vids here, even though there are like 2 mines inbetween the shells.

Some 3" RAP(Rapid Assembly Plastic) spherical shells. They are pasted over with one layer of kraft, to get a better and more symmetrical break. I use a 2g 70/30 flash bag and BP coated puffed rice for burst.

3 3" shells

D1 glitter shells:

#1

#2

FISH glitter shell:

FISH

Trying out a 3" granite falling leaves mine:

Granite falling leaves mine

I think this is a 3" canister TT shell, tight spiked, as you can see by the (low) break:

TT

A bit bad filming of an extremely fast 3" chrysantemum 6 RAP shell:

Chrysantemum 6

There are some more videos/pictures of stuff there too, feel free to download it. Some of them are nice. The clicking sound in the background of the vids are a camera taking pics, btw.

Tell me what you think!

The smoke grenade I got from the military. It was a HC smoke grenade. I believe the composition was HCE/Flake Al/ZnO based. I probably weighed around a pound or so.

The coloured smokes I will be making more of. I have tried, but had some problems with yellow(Quinoline yellow based) and blue(indigo based?). They will not burn consistently when formed into stars. I can tell you getting good coloured smoke shells REALLY is a challenge. I will try some more though.

These are the dyes I have:

Rhodamine B
Para Red
Quinoline Yellow
Auramine O
Either indigo pure or Phthalo blue


So I have some different possibilities.

Also, I will be firing another smoke grenade from the military this christmas, my last one. It is signal red smoke;) Look forward to it!

Sure thing! As long as noone takes my work and says its their own, its all good!

There will be more videos from me during the christmas vacation, so I hope you have room for some more!

Probably more different coloured smoke movies and some pure pyro.

Checked eBay... Anyone know anything about welders gloves? Of course the gloves we need have to be able to work with, not extremely stiff.

These carbtex gloves seem very nice:

http://cgi.ebay.com/...1QQcmdZViewItem