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That looks epic Biggie! Liking the blair witch figure neckless too.
Yeah was going to get black sheets, have been looking around the net trying to find ways of ageing cloth. Baring sandpaper, theres doesnt seem to be much besides painting it... Im on the look out for other materials too not to mention a black see-through cloth...

Thanks for the picture, inspirational, and dont worry, sure its ages until halloween yet!

Originally Posted by grimmy

That looks epic Biggie! Liking the blair witch figure neckless too.
Yeah was going to get black sheets, have been looking around the net trying to find ways of ageing cloth. Baring sandpaper, theres doesnt seem to be much besides painting it... Im on the look out for other materials too not to mention a black see-through cloth...

Thanks for the picture, inspirational, and dont worry, sure its ages until halloween yet!

Creepy Cloth, its the brand cheese cloth you need to order online. The stuff is awesome, pre died and looks great. Also for the see through fabric, go to a walmart or kmart and buy a mesquito net from camping. Then dye it black and you have your see through mesh, then use creepy cloth to mask it.

The animatronics on that Reaper is sofa king awesome! Nope no pics yet.. I'm still in the PA area but will be back in VA this thursday so hopefully I'll have some posted friday... My head is still stationary but I've got my tripod mount prefabricated for the costume.

Biggie is right. Definately layer cheese cloth and thule over. I used some grey spray paint to shade my black robe as well..

How far along are you?

Grey spray yeah?? sounds good and easy-ish to do. I was thinking about spraying on some very dilute bleach as well to fade it, do you reckon it'd work or would it just ruin it???

I've finished my main rig and the base of one of my hands. Started paper mache-ing it yesterday, got 2 fingers done and it took AGES!

Hoping to get the tripod today so once I have that I'll have the main body finished once I configure the skull to my head movement.

I'm going to get the bedsheets today too. Since I havnt got a sowing machine I was thinking about cutting the sheets out and then sticking the various pieces together, do you think it would work or would it come apart??

I was thinking too about, after ive fitted the sheets to the frame,soaking the sheets in some sort of weak flour water solution to harden it up a bit so that it would be more rigid so the cleases would stay put as opposed to flowing.
(id make the creases on the frame when the cloth was still wet, so it would dry in place.

I'll definately keep an eye out for the creepy cloth, looks perfect!!

Looking forward to the pictures!!!

Any ideas on attaching the scythe to the frame???

Yeah I'm a crappy sewer so I had to find an alternate way of hemming the sheets. The thing about these stalkabouts its all about trial and error. I like the idea about the creases. It would definately add more detail to a plain robe. I used the spray paint to add depth but a combo of the two would look great.

I bought my creepy cloth at party city for like 3 bucks a sheet.I also bought these door hanger creepy cloth that was white with red at the end of the tattered tips. I spray painted the white with shades of black and they look pretty killer.

As far as the scythe I would attach it to one of the hands and connect the bottom part of the scythe to the side of your costume to act as a pivot point.

Glad to hear your stoked about your progress. I want to make another already and I havent even scared the kiddies with the one I have!

I was casually thinking about attaching an office chair wheel to the bottom of the scythe, and then attaching the scythe twice to the main frame to make it sturdy,
so I can position it leaning over the shoulder.
But thats all AFTER i do the rest of the things which is taking alot more time than I thought, but I suppose thats always the case.
I realised last night that my main frame was far too big in the shoulders so I sleaked it down a bit last night and did the shoulder joints.
Im torn now between making the costume imposing, and scary due to the shear size of the thing, or making it smaller but more realistic, making it scarier in that sense.

Haha well I'm looking forward to scaring the bigger 'kids' with this one!

I'm finally back in VA so I was able to photograph my stalkabout. It will look alot creepier in the dark because the eyes glow on and off... I bought the Insane Pain mask online as well as the deluxe size werewolf hands. All of the accents like the creepy cloth, the blood stained door drapes and the plastic chain with meat hooks I purchased at Party City for hella cheep. I will be entering it in a couple of costume contests...