Thread: From Flamingos To Skelimingos

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That's an interesting approach Deadna. Hadn't thought of approaching it in that fashion. I pictured spray painting them black first like Mr. Gris did. I guess i would do two tempates -- a neck/head one and a body one where the bones were cut out and I'd trace them and hand paint the bones after taking the template off. I have some matte black Krylon spray paint for plastics that I plan on using. Hadn't thought about the kind of "white" yet other than maybe GID. Geez I haven't really painted anything like this since helping my brother paint his Godzilla plastic model!

BTW, NIL8r's blacklight comment was intriguing too. Don't they make LED blacklight mini spots that could be set up on fluorescent-type Skelimingos pretty easily in one's landscaping?

Deadna I like your approach as well thats great thinking. I am looking for glow in the dark white paint that I am going to brush on and see how that turns out. I will update this with a photo when completed.

Those look great!

WOW! Very creative.

I do not know that I would use them, butt...they sure gave me a laugh. And it is a really cool spin on an old yard standby.

Originally Posted by Ghost of Spookie

That's an interesting approach Deadna. Hadn't thought of approaching it in that fashion. I pictured spray painting them black first like Mr. Gris did. I guess i would do two tempates -- a neck/head one and a body one where the bones were cut out and I'd trace them and hand paint the bones after taking the template off. I have some matte black Krylon spray paint for plastics that I plan on using. Hadn't thought about the kind of "white" yet other than maybe GID. Geez I haven't really painted anything like this since helping my brother paint his Godzilla plastic model!

BTW, NIL8r's blacklight comment was intriguing too. Don't they make LED blacklight mini spots that could be set up on fluorescent-type Skelimingos pretty easily in one's landscaping?

Thanks,I wasn't sure I was being clear on my directions. I figured it would be easier to cut out shapes with sissors than trying to get good cuts with an exacto knife on contact paper and get it to stick well on the bird. The smaller bones shapes did well at sticking to it.