Thread: Mummy Attack

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Last minute prop and my little nod to the Abbott and Costello films. I made crates of various sized using cardboard boxes and trimmed them with pink foam so it looked like boarded up crates. then cut out two holes made a pink foam arm coming out and sculpded a mummy face and put that througha whole in a crate to look like it was busting out. made a dummy up as an archaeologist sculpted a face ( dont like ) put some spiders around so it looked like they escaped I think it came out ok. wish I had more time to age the mummy wrappings.

p.s. the carboard boxes didnt take to kindly to the rain.

try "natural look concrete sealer" for the boxes. Dries clear with minimal sheen and works pretty well for any porous surface. Usually runs about $20 for a 1 gallon bottle at HD, right now Lowes has it for about $2 more.

other than that, really cool prop...and a neat homage to A&C.

dK

You could age the mummy wrappings by putting some concentrated tea (maybe even mixed with strong coffee) in a spray bottle and giving it a spritz.

What an awesome job for a "last minute prop"!

I love your work jollygorilla! I've seen on a couple of your posts that you carve alot of pink foam. I've wanted to do some carvings out of it myself. So far I've only ever carved tombstones, nothing like a larger, odd shaped prop like your spider victim or the arm of the mummy attack prop. My question posed to you is how you go about building up the layers necessary to begin carving? What adhesives would you use to glue the pieces together? Does this adhesive cause any trouble for you once you begin shaping the prop and you have to cut/sand down through the adhesive? The reason I ask this is that when I began making tombstones, I bonded two sheets together using a foamboard adhesive. A few days later I went to cut out the shapes of my stones and I noticed that the adhesive was gumming up on the blade of my jigsaw. Also had the same problem with my rotory tools' spiral bit. I would love to try my hand at doing some true carving, but if I could get some reliable pointers from other talented carvers beforehand, it'll probally save me some troubles down the road. Thanks in advance-CycloneJack

looks great.

I have used elmers glue and hot glue gun in the past. this year I'm trying liquid nails. I only layer enough to look good actually i use too little of layers. I use sharp exacto type knifes they been working pretty good so far. Heres a 3 layer hulk done in pink board bigger then life size.

photo makes it look very flat sorry i couldnt find a better one