Shenandoah shows summary

This blog is a display for my projects. I make models of carnival rides out of knex and pipe cleaners and a few other items. They rack (tear down) like the real rides. If you are viewing this site for the first time let me give you a tour. Below are posts. If your new you might of missed some, so scroll threw and back to see other projects. To the right, is a tab that says pages. Click that and it will take you to a list of pages, including carnival terminology, and youtube, as well as a few others. Enjoy and comment. P.S. if you comment, don't ask me for, or leave any personal info. I ask that you address me as Shenandoah shows, or idog0698. Thank you.
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Khaotic freak out on the mulligan wheel.

 So if you remember, I mentioned I was building the Khaos. Well I did, and I didnt like it. So I re theamed it to be the freak out. Its kinda the same thing. Well I am here to show you it and an article on that very ride. Captions are under each picture.
Tada. that's the new freak out.
 A close up of the sign.
 And color changing lights.
 Oh I also re built and painted the ,mulligan wheel. It still has some issues that need fixing and some lights, and then I will post an article about it. Now the freak out article begins.




 The freak out up.
 Here are the seats. They are removed,
 and racked on the platform.
 All for seats removed and racked.
 Now the spacers are disconnected,
 removed,
 and racked on either side of the trailer. 2 on the right 2 on the left.
 Theres the carriage without seats or spacers.
 Thats a silver platform. More for decoration than anything.
 Those are folded down.
 Now the plug on the right is disconnected,
 turning off the right tower.
 Now see the sign?
 well those are moved straight out.
 Now thw winch is attached to the main carriage,
 and the cable is tightened.
 Now the right tower is disconnected,
 And is raised straight up.
 Now the carriage is winched in towards the tower. Sorry the pics sideways.
 Now the sweeps are disconnected,
 and folded down.
 Its current state.
 Now the left tower is lowered and secured,
 and then the right. The braces rack on the trailer.
 Now you see the platform?
 Well those raise up, one on the front and one on the back.
 They are secured with a rod.
 Now the brace feet.
 They are removed and racked on the trailer.
 The side braces are removed,
 And racked on the trailer.
 Now the wind braces are disconnected,
 and fold in.
 The ride is now racked.
Without lights.
The real ride.
Racked.
I have recently lit my fire ball and as I said re built my mulligan wheel so stay tuned for pics.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Revertigo

Not only have I built the khaos, But I am also re building my vertigo. That ride didn't even live long enough to be shown here. It got broken, and it wasn't in me to rebuild it at the time. But now it has a better structure and is now painted. I have also rebuilt and painted my skydiver trailer. So I have a ton of stuff to post so stay tuned. Also I have updated the units page to include my recent builds.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

New Khaos coming soon

An all new ride is on the way to Shenandoah shows. I just hope I can handle the challenge. Coming soon is the spectacular ride, the Khaos. Whys its spelled with a K i don't know. A spectacular ride is one of 4 genres of rides. Kiddie, family, thrill a spectacular. A kiddie ride is rides for small kids from like 3-8. (dragon wagon, hampton umbrella rides, etc) Family rides are rides that cater to small kids and adults. (eli ferris wheels, slides, swings, carousels, scramblers, tilt a whirl, etc) Thrill rides are often fast paced and tall. (Super loops, round up, paratroopers, spiders/ octopuses, hi rollers, etc) And spectacular rides are GIGANTIC rides. They are often described as amusement park type rides, that you wouldn't think could tear down and be moved. (Giant wheels, Vertigo's, super shot drop towers, sea ray (swinging boat rides), wave swingers, rock star /typhoon /rainbows, skydivers (rare to see those), gravitrons/ star ship/ alien abduction, etc) And the Khaos is a spectacular ride I believe. I don't have many spectacular rides. They are usually rather hard to make. But the ones I do have are, the super shot, the sky diver, and hopefully the Khaos. Ill post pics when and if I can build it. But I will leave you with this.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Latest and last updates.

For 1 I have a new video out of the scrambler being torn down. Click the pages tab and then click videos to go to you tube. So this shall be 1 of my last updates posts of the season. As I mentioned before I re did the cluster lights on the scrambler. Well this is how I did it.
1st I removed the old paper ones. Then I built the knex frames. The pic you see is the ride with the new outer cluster lights after being painted. This is before the decor went into them, To the left you will see new paper cut outs.
These are the frames for the X pannels, or I call them that because they have an x on them, and the top cluster lights. I took the paper cutouts and glued them to the knex to make them solid. I also used pipe cleaners and 3 small knex to decorate the outer cluster lights.

 Everything's on but the top cluster lights. I show This because for a wile the scrambler its based on didn't have top cluster lights.


 Everything's attached.
 An up close of the outer lights.
 The X pannels and the upper cluster lights.
The x panels are now connected, making them flush.

      and they stay connected when it folds.
 The back of the X panels and cluster ;oghts.
 Folded.
 And lowered.
 LIGHTS YAY!

racked.

The real scrambler.
This is what I meant by it didn't have the top cluster lights. They just hadn't been put back on. 

Racked.


            Also I Painted the wayout swings base.

 And I Rebuilt the chair swings to have 16 sweeps instead of just 8.
Showing all the sweeps,

 Racked.
 With lights.
I also built the tubs of fun. Its racked there, but Ill post a pic later. I recently re did the decking on the silver streak, painted my round up, and I plan to paint the wayout swings again. So keep a look out for that. Just because the season coming to an end doesn't mean Im done.