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How to Make Fake Blood and a Wire-Pull Squib

Published by Matthew Jeppsen June 18th, 2007 in Effects, News, Production, Tutorials

ProLost has posted a video tutorial on making wire pull blood squibs indie-style. Simple, cheap, and very effective. There is also a thread on the Rebel’s Guide forum with a detailed realistic blood recipe.

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1 chris Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

first get a strong cardboard surface cut one about the size of an index card, and tape it under your shrit on your body or where ever you want to get shot,then buy one of those cheap firecrackers (the best time to buy those is around july in practicly any store) then tape the fire cracker on to the piece of card board on your body,so when the cracker goes off it wont burn your body, now for the blood packet, get one of those small,small ziploc bags then fill it with red dye (1.00 a box at grocery stores) close the bag then tape it on top of the firecacker and card board. now all you have to do is light it . oh and make sure that the fire cracker fuse pokes out of the shirt ‘just make a litte hole and poke it out then light it because my frind lit it under his shrit and the little sparks burnt him .+ the hole makes a better impression of a gunshot wound w/ the little “bullethole” cut on your shirt. then when its out of the hole light it and BANG! you have your self a bloody gun shot wound.
2 Mike Feb 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm

We make them a little differently, first, we take a small piece of aluminum sheet cut it to size and form it to the part of the body where it is needed. then we take a firecracker and pull out the fuse. then we insert an electric match into the fire cracker and tape it to the metal. Then, we use small plastic or wax paper bags and fill them with blood and tape it over the fire cracker, and attach the electric match to the remote igniter and tape the squib and blood pack to the part of the body. For multiple squibs, you can wire them in series or use multiple igniters. A squib does not necessarily require a blood pack, they look great without blood for bulletproof vests, in structures or vehicles, etc. also, it is important to remember that squibs are inherently not safe, there are many other alternatives using compressed air, non explosive squibs, i’ve even seen some convincing effects using paintballs compressed air can be used in conjunction with squibs to create some real cool effects.
3 Beau Feb 4th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

can you put up a shopping list of where i can get everything needed for the second method