Thread: Warm weather = prop making - Finally!

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Summer-ish weather is finally here! Here are a couple of the props I have been working on:

My hubby finished 6 can lanterns so far and we'll have a lot more by Halloween because I am using the Hunt's spaghetti sauce cans because they are cheap ($0.87/ea), I love spaghetti, and they are white on the inside so the light is brighter - sweet! By the way, all of the lights I use to simulate canlelight are LED flicker tealights. They have 8-packs at BigLots for 6 bucks and they come with 8 replacement batteries!!
With Lights on:

With lights off:

Video below


2 Actual lanterns we purchased from BigLots ($6/ea). They came with citronella candles but I replaced them w/ flicker LED lights:


My Blucky jumper is almost finished. I still have to spray him with black light paint and paint the PVC rod black.


Video below.

Too bad I have to RE-attach his arms!

Crappy spider skull thing into a usable skele-ghoul prop:

Bent the spider legs into a human frame and began paper mache':

Same paper mache' but dried, added great stuf hands and guts and tried out some red paint on the guts to see the effect on the great stuff:

Now to remove the jaw with hot knife to extend it to add to creepy factor:


add the wire and attach:


I still need to do more paper mache', seal it and paint it before it's finished.

aaaand those last 2 pumpkins were carved!

and I also did the first coat of silver paint on the hard hats. Now I just have to age them:

Sorry so many pics but I was busy this weekend!

Looks like you've been busy.
I need to start working on stuff.
Life has been getting in the way of prop making....

Love those pumpkins!The idea with the hunts cans is clever I would have never thought of that.
I really need to go to big lots.

lol,, weve been working props since March..

Someone is off to a great start! I need to get back into prop mode. Everything looks great. BTW Happy summer to you too.

Nice props! It's never too early to start building.

Yer makin' headway there on some fine props.

Warm and dry weather? I'm still waiting for that...