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07 Jun 2012 4:28 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill

  • Changed title from "15mm Firefly Mudders' Shantytown "Jaynestown), Easy-Peasy?" to "15mm Firefly Mudders' Shantytown "Jaynestown", Easy-Peasy?"

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Cacique Caribe07 Jun 2012 4:15 p.m. PST

After all, the shacks/huts are tiny and seem half-buried into the side of the dirt roads anyway, right?

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Seen:

00:00-00:22
03:31-03:58
05:16-05:45

Also seen here, at 05:44-05:57:

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Or are they all supposed to be just small topside entrances to big underground rooms like the bar seen here, 01:50-02:15?

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I know it would have been too much for the show's budget but, if a settlement's biggest asset is mud, you'd expect the houses to be made of the stuff, right?

Dan

Cacique Caribe07 Jun 2012 4:40 p.m. PST

For "mudders" I would have expected something like a mud dome hut or something:

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Would that be cool to make for 15mm, but with some corrugated sheets and a few metal bits here and there, just to make it more SF-ish?

Dan

Mardaddy07 Jun 2012 5:26 p.m. PST

Nah, if you recall, the "mud" was actually very unique and valuable; when kilned it was harder than, well, whatever they said in the episode.

I would have thought that makes it too valuable to use as slave/worker quarters…

IWillNeverGrowUpGames07 Jun 2012 6:03 p.m. PST

Like Mardaddy said, the mud was far too valuable to make slave laborers homes from. It was used on space craft!

From the looks of what is seen in the show I don't think those could possibly be topside entrances. They seem far too low to the ground, almost more akin to Tents or lean-to's than anything else. And from the chairs and other paraphenalia hanging around outside many of them I'm further led to believe that it's likely they're tent-type structures.

Privateer4hire07 Jun 2012 6:41 p.m. PST

The homes are actually dug out. Mudders live beneath ground where the mud has already been extracted. Has a psychological impact to be forced to live beneath ground and lessens casualties from heat injury. Don't keep folks happy but they are alive for another shift.

pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP08 Jun 2012 3:13 a.m. PST

He robbed from the rich
And he gave to the poor
Stood up to the man
And gave him what for
Our love for him now
Ain't hard to explain
The hero of Canton
The man they call Jayne.

Rasie a glass to the Hero of Canton!

pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP08 Jun 2012 3:15 a.m. PST

For fulkl auditory enjoyment:

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Cacique Caribe08 Jun 2012 9:14 a.m. PST

I've gotta get one of those hats!!!

Dan

Lfseeney08 Jun 2012 6:46 p.m. PST

Well was setting up for It Came From Beyond the Still,
And Adam Baldwin sat down and we talked about the game, what work he was up to, and life.
Really cool guy, did not pester him for pic or signing anything as this was a rest time for him.
My wife did get his signature later when he had his formal signing.

He said the huts were lumber, plywood, and roughed up sheeting.
And the water on the set was really nasty stuff.

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