I got to watching Creepshow this weekend and thought of a great idea for a new prop.
The segment where they find a trunk under the stairs at a university.....
The trunk came from an Arctic expedition from 1838 and had big heavy chains on it.
Well, inside the trunk is a monster that likes to eat people.

My thought is to get a big old heavy trunk, stencil the sides with Arctic Expedition etc....put big heavy chains and locks on it and a hydraulic piston that will make the lid bang up and down like something is trying to get out.

What I need help with is the size of piston that I would need and how to power it.
Also, how to make it bang up at a random pace on Que.

Oh, and this is the cute little feller that lives in the trunk...

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The best things in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

Start here
http://www.phantasmechanics.com/air/index.html

how about this? http://www.employees.org/~joestone/H...rate_beast.htm

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jrzmac

Of course I'm not the first to think of this.
Thanks for the links.
I'll read through them tonight.

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The best things in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

Here is the one I built this year. If you want to buy it great, if you want to build one I can tell you anything you want to know.

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I used to have super powers until my therapist took them away.

That's what I based my creature crate on. Check out this thread, it may give you some good ideas.

Death studios did a creature mask of it:
http://deathstudios.com/Masks/Masks.cfm?MCID=7
if the link doesn't work go to deathstudios.com & then click on Classics
$140. but cool, with or without blood drooling from the mouth !!

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When you look in the mirror at midnight,what looks back at you.........

Heres mine