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Quote: Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl I did a fire ring for my witch's cauldron. I formed a ring with white stones that we had extra from our flower bed border (any stones would work - but these showed up well in the dark). Used about three pieces of split wood from our wood pile. One string of flicker lights (...

Frankie's girl campfire looks very real. I may have to do that to improve mine. I had bought 6 strings of flicker lights and attached each light ( they have clips ) to a ring of twigs. Looked pretty good. Wasn't a raging fire but gave a good enough effect:

The way to get a real looking fire with the flicker lights is to make sure the actual bulbs aren't visible, the reflected light on the wood pile and resulting glow and flicker is what makes it look real. The minute you have a bulb showing, it's pretty obvious. It took me longer to arrange the bulbs than it did to set up the fire ring, but it was worth the fussing. .

Quote: Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl The way to get a real looking fire with the flicker lights is to make sure the actual bulbs aren't visible, the reflected light on the wood pile and resulting glow and flicker is what makes it look real. The minute you have a bulb showing, it's pretty obvious. It took me longer to ...

Yes, do tell!!! I had to re-read the post to make sure I read it correctly!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lynn So what gave it the red glow ? Or did it just turn out that way ? Looks really good ! The red is from the flicker lights - the filaments are red/orange and do the jumpy flicker effect. These sort of look like the bulbs in the strands you can buy around Halloween: http://...

Duh!!!! LOL ... the candle flame bulbs ... I use them in my lanterns!

I'm messing with a circular fan with silk fabric zip tied to the outer perimiter of the round wire fan housing. Preliminary tests look real good. When I put a light in it I'll post s vid. It's rather large and when done people could theroetically walk all the way around it and still have it look like flames. Even close up the flames look good as the fan is very powerful and the fabric whips like...

I'm trying to find a way to make a fake fire, but for the top of my columns...about 5 inches big though. Here's a nice tutorial I found on a full size campfire: flame box

Quote: Originally Posted by CMGhost I'm trying to find a way to make a fake fire, but for the top of my columns...about 5 inches big though. Here's a nice tutorial I found on a full size campfire: flame box Scary terry has a nice how to he did with flaming buckys. I'm sure the idea can be converted to ...