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Berni

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I need to make fake milk for a production. I need to make about 2 litres of it and it needs to be poured over people. The floor is floor boards so I really don't want to use the real stuff or we'll be smelling it for weeks to come! I'm in Australia and we have a product called OOM but it smells like paint thinner and I really don't want to pour it on people Any suggestions?

 

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How about very dilute white emulsion paint? It shouldn't smell too bad and as long as the costumes are washed immediately it will come off, it shouldn't stain. Be careful about getting it in people's eyes, though.

 

Any stains that do remain can be removed by pouring a small amount of methylated spirit over them, letting it soak in for a few seconds, scrunching up the stained area, rubbing it around and against itself and giving it a run through the rinse cycle.

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I can confirm that real milk on a woodern floor stinks for some time! we did animal farm one time, with a bucket of milk that gets knocked over (kicked by one of the pigs? I forget) and for at least a week afterwards you could smell it - the cleaners managed in the end I think. Not sure how.
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Would a small amount of flour in the water work?

It would probably settle so it would need shaken (or stirred) at the beginning of the scene?

I would much rather someone poured a solution of flour over me than dilute paint!

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What about powdered milk, or soya milk? Do they stink too?

 

Other than that, how about those powder+water mix paints? Take some white and dilute it lots. Has the added advantage of easily washing out of stuff too (I would guess...!)

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  • 2 weeks later...

This is a complete shot in the dark, but something that has just occured to me...

 

When I was a young naive 18 year old I went backpacking round Eastern Europe. In Turkey we were completely bemused as huge glasses of milk were brought out for after dinner drinks.

A couple of days later we realised that it was a clear aniseedy spirit mixed with water.

 

You would only need a tiny bit, a bottle of Raki would do about a month I reckon depending on quantity. It doesn't stain (as we found out after a niavity had worn out).

 

Good luck.

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If memory serves me right, a friend of mine had some of a similar drink at Download festival last year.

It was Pernod (pronounced "perno") in water. With the right consistency, it would most definitely look like milk.

 

The only down side is the fact it's alcoholic, so wouldn't be allowed on stage, and would make whatever it comes into contact with smell of liquorice/aniseed (not a problem if you like that tho :angry:)

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Actually, that Raki, Pernod or Ouzo (it's all the same stuff really) idea is pretty good. The amounts you need are pretty small, so I don't think the alcoholic content will be a big issue. If the theatre is small, the smell of aniseed might be a problem, but it's the best suggestion I've seen so far.
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how about a bucket of water that's had lots of compressed air blow through it. When they used to work on the water main in our street(almost every week till they replaced it) the water would come out of the tap very white and it would take at least an hour for the air to settle out of it. Or another thought that has just sprung to mind how about starch solution we use to make it in chemistry for experiments it was made up by adding starch powder to a beaker of boiling water but the resulting solution was white especially if lots of powder was added and it was allowed to cool.
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