The cheapest I found was at Douglas and Sturgess...$19.50 gallon...but they added $5. handling and $18.50 to ship it! My best price with shipping is Alpine Imports...$44.79 total.
You may not want an entire gallon though...I don't know the prices for quarts.
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With most fluids relating to Visual effects a quart is generally the price of 1/3 of a gallon. For example, at my local iparty they had a gallon for 30 bucks and a court for 13. I have seen the samme deals on web fluid, bubble fluid, and latex.
I had a really tough time glueing the suckers together. Their joints just wouldn't adhere with the glue gun all the time and it took me all day trying! And I still never got the legs and hip joints to join. That being said, I decided to have my Army of Darkness coming out of graves. Maybe have thier tombstones marked as soldiers from a designated war hundreds of years ago. With that in mind, I will not have to have a full skeleton showing for the exception of one who will be just about completely out of his grave. What do you think? Will that work? Oh and one last thing..when corpsing a skeleton, what color do you paint the eye sockets..black? Yeah, I guess that would be the color of choice seeing as there isn't suppose to be anything there.
Problems may come and problems may go..but HAUNTING is forever in the soul!
If I were creating an Army of Darkness from blowform skeletons, I'd use 1/2" PVC running through the bones so that you have an internal skeleton frame inside the blowform pieces. This would make them last for years, keep moveable joints, and allow you to stretch him out a little bit to get about 6" in extra height.
I suppose you would use 1 - 2 PVC sections of 10'. That would only cost you about $2.50 for each skeleton to do this.
Well, would I just cut the ends of the bones off to slip the bones through? And how would I..1) Keep them the bones on the PVC Pipe...2) Ummmm...Look, I guess what I'm trying to say is that, should I make a regular PVC pipe frame? Also, wouldn't it look rather weird on the shoulders and hips? What would I put there? I'm confused.
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Yes, you would cut a 1/2" hole in the ends of the bones. I would use small drywall screws to secure the bones to the PVC. Because the blowform plastic is thin, just predrill your screw holes.
There is a page out on the internet about doing something similar to this. Let me see if I can find it. The shoulders and hips would look fine because they would sit inside the pelvis and upper torso/ribcage. Plus the papertowel corpsing would cover up the seems between the PVC and the blowform pieces.
I have two blowform skeletons that I'll be corpsing this way but it won't be until August when I start that.
I think I understand. That would so much better than trying to approach it the I did yesterday. I guess I wasted a full day for nothing. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks
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This site might help you with the whole issue of PVC and skeletons. As for the corpse eyes, there are many ways to do it. You could have black eye sockets, you could put in fake eyes, you could put in LEDS, or you could soak cotton balls in glue and put them into the sockets for a creepy effect (see here).
You two are my inspiration..LOL. Thank you so much for all your help! I'm marching my carcas down to the hardware store right now and get what I need. Suddenly, I don't feel so hopeless on this project.
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