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Blood Packets
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The best thing to use is plastic wrap. Saran Wrap and all the others are the same plastic. It can be fused together easily, and will not withstand much pressure before bursting. This method is kind of like making a Seal-A-Meal package.
To seal the plastic wrap, cut a piece and fold over. Use aluminium foil folded in half. Slip the plastic wrap edges that you need to fuse into the aluminium. Heat it with a regular clothing iron on high. Don't let the iron touch the plastic directly, just use it to heat the foil. Let it set for about 10 seconds after you remove the iron. The plastic will be fused together. After you have the pouch closed on three sides, put in the amount of blood you need. You will need to use a small block of wood to seal the last edge without spilling it. Let the pouch with blood sit on the counter, and put the open side in the foil on top of a wooden block, then heat with the iron. You will have a blood pack made to the size you want, and it will burst easier than a condom. It will also be pretty flat, and easier to hide under clothing than a condom with a couple feet of tape on it.
Blood
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Corn Syrup Blood
This is the recipe that pretty much everyone uses, and there's a lot of variations so feel free to experiment.
16 oz. Golden syrup (Alternatively just mix sugar and water and reduce on the stove until it becomes syrupy)
1 oz. red food colouring
1 oz. washing detergent
1 oz. water
Add a drop of blue food colouring to create a more realistic colour. Remove the washing up liquid if you want to make edible blood. Adding condensed milk makes it less transparent and more like real blood.
The blood is extremely sticky and can stain skin and clothes so makes sure its washed off quickly. Use a stain remover on clothes.
Cardiff Red
Because of the food colouring used in a lot of blood recipes they tend to stain easily and can sometime look more purple than red. Here's a more natural alternative that's closer to a Spaghetti Western style arterial red. It also washes out of clothes easily and can be eaten reasonably safely (although why you'd want to eat it is beyond me).
Take a teaspoon or two of Arrowroot (a white powder used in baking that you can easily find in health food shops) and add to water heated on the stove. Stir continuously until the mixture becomes gloopy. Add a small amount of red children's non-toxic powder paint and stir in. The mixture should now be bright red. Add a tiny amount of brown powder paint or coffee concentrate (make this by adding a small amount of water to coffee granules) to darken the blood as required. Store in a bottle or jam jar and thin by adding water to make the blood the required consistency as and when you need it. For bullet hits you need to thin the blood quite a bit to allow it to spray out.
Lo-Cost Blood
Add a few drops of red food colouring to the cheapest washing up liquid you can find. Add a drop of blue colouring or some coffee concentrate to create a more realistic colour. Produces a runny blood that has a slight tendency to foam. Great for those bucket of blood effects on the cheap. Washes off reasonably well but tastes foul if you accidently get it in your mouth.
MB2 Blood
Flour Base
1/2 to 2 level teaspoons of plain flour per cup (250ml). Mix flour into water completely (no lumps) before heating. Bring to boil then simmer for 1/2 hour. Stir frequently.
Cool before adding food colour. Stir in any surface scum. Makes a good base for stage blood. Slightly slimy. Fairly low surface tension. Soaks and spreads well.
One cup batch of MB2:
1 oz (29ml) Red food colouring
1/8 teaspoon (.6ml) Green food colouring
Add flour base described above to a total of one cup (250ml).
There is no sugar and very little food in the MB2 formula so it's probably less attractive to insects. Shelf life is fairly short (days) at room temp. Does not go rank but ferments a bit and looses viscosity.
This formula will temporarily stain skin. Seems to wash out of cotton cloths OK.
Cherry Red
Mix 1 cup water and 1 tablespoon flour. Bring to a boil and let boil for 3 min. Then let simmer on low for 15 min. Remove from heat and let stand around 5 min then mix in one 0.13 oz. package of black cherry (powder) kool aid mix. You will see the results right away. When I priced one packet of kool aid to the food colouring it was about a quarter of the price.
It is a little thick but a good colour. Another cool part is if you do get some in your mouth or have to drink it as for a vampire movie, it tastes pretty good to.
Black and White blood
Alfred Hitchcock famously used Bosco chocolate syrup in Psycho. Any opaque chocolate syrup will do. Tastes great as well!
Jelly Blood
Microwave 3-4 bottles of glycerine then add one cube of strawberry jelly and mix until dissolved. Then add small amount of gelatine (1/5 of a packet) and then add red food colouring to desired effect. Keep stirring until mixed well. It is slightly runny but great for that reservoir dogs look in back seat of the car. All ingredients are easily found in supermarkets.
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| I still swear by the Grimass Stage blood, its a nice red, flows nice, congeals a little after a while, isnt sticky and even washes out pretty well... Must admit though id be willing to give these recipes a go, the sticky ones though would put me off...
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I suppose it depends on quantity you need and budget to be honest. In LRP it’s probably most important to think about wash-ability than anything else.
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Im told the ones with a washing up liquid base tend to be the best for washing out.
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But taste horrid. I remember doing a simple NPC role where I was to cough up a good quantity of blood and dramatically cark it. It was dark… The plan was to chug a mouthful of fake blood as I heard the PCs come running to see what was up (and quickly hide the chugging receptacle)
All went according to plan until I realised I had a good quantity of washing up liquid in my mouth and I coughed up fake blood rather further than I expected.
Scared the bejesus out of the players though.
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The moral being not to drink washing up liquid...
I am usually quite happy with Stage Blood which leaves a bit of a pink stain most times on clothes and porous surfaces, but cleans up pretty well on the whole. To be honest, I tend to end up using cheap "vampire blood" dispensers that go on discount just after halloween because they are cheap and such a convenient size... A little goes a long way with blood, and doesn't drip on the site so much.
One chap I know (a chemist) has managed to make a blood with a washing up liquid base that looks spot on and is virtually self-cleaning, as well as not staining fabric (porous surfaces such as brick or mortar are still doomed...). No idea what he mixes with it though.
The syrup based bloods I really can't be dealing with. They are horrible, sticky, have a tendency to separate and look awful for the most part. I'd probably refuse to be covered with syrup (in most circumstances), whereas being covered with stage blood is a lot less unpleasant.
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Alastair (10/4/2006)
One chap I know (a chemist).Would that be me by chance Al ? To be honest the Blood I make ( and get tipped on me fairly regularly by various refs here and there ) is actually a completely different starting point to most fake bloods. The thing I have always found with them is that they look great in bottles and in small quasntities but look rubbish when they have dried and are sticky and have gone a sort of pink colour ( the result of the kind of dye they use ). To get round this I use a pigment rather than a dye, which is not water soluble and so is much easier to wash out of clothes and skin. It also means that you can use a mostly water based system which isn't even half as sticky as the other bloods you can buy. The colour itself is a bit tricky to get right and it looks the same in the bottle as it does on the skin ( so is no good for some effects if you want a massively realistic bowl of blood for example, which has a much darker colour than the stuff pumping out of a jugular ), but it does look fine for most "being bludgeoned with a rock" type effects, or being smeared on windows by zombies............. Rich.
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| Actually forgot to add that as I don't use anything like washign up liquid either it is completely edible and is quite easily coughed up ( and has been more than once !! ). R.
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