TESTING BLUE FIREWORK STARS!
Added 2025-06-24 06:41:54 +0000 UTCThis is just some footage of me testing my copper oxide blue stars (70% ammonium perchlorate, 15% copper oxide, 15% red gum). I tested quite a few blue compositions tonight, and I think I'm starting to get a feel for how to film these things lol! Shimizu blue #2 was probably my favorite...it's color was more of a light sky blue, while the others were at least trying to be a deeper blue, but it lacked the reddish flame envelop that the AP/red gum/CuO mixes had, making it feel more like a full blue. Mixing barium into the AP/red gum/CuO was supposed to yield a stronger blue due to some optical trickery, but I really didn't notice a huge difference (although I am slightly red/green color blind, so maybe it's just me, haha!)
Today, I mostly finished making my stars (they're still soft and drying), and I tried testing a sugar/nitrate smoke bomb, but the results were kinda meh since I added too much wax. I did try out some bismuth trioxide crackle mix though, which was pretty awesome! Progress is slow, but we're getting there! Tomorrow (or today, if you're reading this Tuesday and not up at 2am like me) I'll be filming most of the compositions burning, and then maybe assemble my colored smoke bombs and star mines. I'll probably be uploading a bunch of colorful and firework-filled updates most days this week, and up until the final video's release, so stay tuned!
