Thread: New 09 props and Octfest parade float

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Ewww gruesome!! So do the floats win prizes? IF so, you are a shoe in!

MsM

I love the float. Awesome job. I was hoping to do something like that this year, but too many time restrictions, didn't have enough time. I hope by next year, we'll be able to do something like that. I love the prop, what's it made out of?

4x4 post up the middle. Thats covered with chicken wire and then newsprint taped on. On that we wired on landscape fabric ( the monster mud was too heavy for the newsprint.) On the fabric we slathered on the monstermud (drywall mud with brown paint). On top of that we put another layer of the fabric and we left it really loose. That gave the tree a look of bark.. Worked out really well for the texture of the trunk. Then we put on more mud on the 'high" spots. Then we left many places without the mud on it. That gave the tree the black color underneath. So there was very little painting involved ! The hands and feet are just chicken wire, landscape fabrid and MM. ( And pieces of foam for the toe nails)
The face is around 7 layers of pink foam glued together and carved. the eyes are 2 red bouncy balls from walmart.
We got this float done in 2 weeks. Once we figured out the landscape fabric idea... it went really well.

The prop and float are terrific! That unborn on the ceiling is so gonna freak the ToTs out. LOL!