Thread: my stalk-around

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i am going to start on my stalk around soon. and don't know where to start. does anyone have any pictures of the frame? or how the head moves?

thanks in advance

-eric

Built it 22 years ago, still have it. Plywood cut out to go round over my shoulders, then padded so the edge of the plywood doesn't dig into my shoulders.
The manufactured , professional stalker has an axle from the goon's head straight down to hook up to your own head, maybe a little beanie cap and a chin strap? I was just told this I have never seen one.
The heads are now syncronized!
Flat black painted 1/4 steel rods attached to the goon's wrists make arm movement happen, camoflauged by their dark color against a dark backround as seen at night.
I even made crude lifts to make me a foot higher using threaded steel rods holding two 2 by4's apart with some rubber attached on the ground side for a little traction and sheet metal straps over top of my actual work boots , bolted with 1/4 inch nuts and bolts as tight as I could make it, it was a long hike from my house to the parade and back.
I had to practise walking in these first.
Some of my costumes are more torture devices for the person wearing them.

search for stalkaround or stalkabout,good info there.

here's the frame for the one i made



here it is bulked up with plastic grocery bag, newspaper, and duct tape.



and finished



the head only moves left and right. a pvc pipe went through the cross in the shoulders and fit into a slot in a bike helmit strapped to my head. i made an s type shape out of 90 degree elbows between the neck and the head. this made a stop before the cross and gave the head a sweeping motion rather than just turning on an axis.

batfly. nice kittie... i like him.. i like your frame too.. the only thing the i would change is the head movement... i want the head movement to be up,down,left,right and tilt..

I used the pivot from a camera tripod on mine to get head movement.

If i could only pull my head out of my butt for a min I could show you how the real ones are built. i have a friend that owns a real one " that means shes got more money then sense" She let me take pics of the one she owns and i copied it . the tripod one would save a lot of problems, mine I was able to use a universal joint mounted at the base of the head, what you need to do is make the connections at the front of the helmet and make sure you have a good balance point for it to work, to hard to explain I will get some pics to you, just send me an e-mail and ill send you some. there are some pis of mine on my page. my avitar is also me in it.
Rottin corps

pretty sweet, is it heavy?

heres a pic of the step i used, its like wearing a back pack

batfly - that is awesome and inspiring.