Thread: Show your best prop!!!

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Originally Posted by DaveintheGrave

It's hard to pick my favorite, but I guess this is the best prop I've made.

My Crawling Skeleton:

Hey Daveinthegrave, I was wondering what you had used for the skeleton to crawl ????????????? I likes!

also interested

Originally Posted by aSmarterU

halloweendarkangel -

Uruk-Hai - I love carving foam too, very nice. I know I saw somewhere that you had progress pics during your construction, I just don't recall where it was.

Thanks everyone! As Big Nick pointed out it was made out of foam insulation boards carved to look like wood. I used the tutorial by SpookyBlue as a guide. The metal straps are also foam with styrofoam balls cut in half for the bolts. Here are some in-progress pics. I have more pics and a step-by-step description on my website.

Uruk- Hai, are you talking about my crypt I was buliding, Im corn-fuzed about the "Quote" that posted with your post.

Wow! You guys all did such an amazing job with all your props. Hope you don't mind but I saved a bunch of pics for future reference.

As soon as I sell and am settled in my new home, I will definetly look into making some of those!!

Thanks for all the compliments on the Crawling Skeleton, everybody!
HalloweenDarkAngel, DaddyWoofdawg and Big Nick: I DID have a turorial for the skeleton. It was listed on both the MonsterList and HauntProject, but this past October AOL totally shut down their AOL Hometown site (which my tutorial was on). I guess I could re-post it here on the forum in the tutorial section. The bad thing is the main part needed to build it hasn't been available for some time now. It's a dual-shafted 18 RPM DC Motor that I originally got from SurplusCenter.com, so it's about impossible to build it like I did.
I thought eventually I would see if I could build a less complicated one, maybe using two single shaft motors. Just haven't gotten to that project yet. LOL
Anyway, here's a pic of the motor assembly and the swivel bolts that allow the arms to rotate:





Theres more pics of the assembly on this Photobucket page:
Crawling Skeleton pictures by DaveNTracy - Photobucket

Fell free to contact me if you have any questions!

Originally Posted by hallorenescene

the tombstones were cool the way they looked like they were sinking into the ground.

Hallorenescene: Those are just tombstones from the Dollar store. I took a saw and cut the bottoms off at an angle, then glued PVC pipe to the back of them. I think it makes your cemetary more realistic if you mix in a few of these with the straight-up tombstones.
Thanks for the compliment!!

Originally Posted by Mistress of the Abyss

Wow! You guys all did such an amazing job with all your props. Hope you don't mind but I saved a bunch of pics for future reference.

As soon as I sell and am settled in my new home, I will definetly look into making some of those!!

Well ... there is ONE more but I can't show it yet!

Here is my pnuematic ground breaker.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xc_QH0Tw88]YouTube - Pneumatic Ground Breaker Prop[/ame]

casa fear i love it's movement. Any picture's of the way you made it work?