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Hi. So I just came across this awesome tutorial on making mummified fairies with the small and otherwise useless skeletons. This gave me an idea. I want to make several some of them will be alive and moving, some of them will be mummified. they will then be attached to fly-paper and hung on the porch by the light. However I'm not sure how do do this and keep it realistic. How many should I have alive, and how many dead? What would the be the best movements for them? I have a ton of pager motors from old cell phones that I can use. Also would you use regular fly paper? Or should I make something bigger? The fairies would be about 4-5 inches high

Here is the link to the tutorial

http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?page_id=4666

That's a cool tutorial. But in terms of making them move I wish you luck!

It shouldn't be too hard to make them move, once I figure out where to have them move. I can use small motors inside the bodies attached to a linkage and skeleton. I think I'll make the fly-paper out of two layers of regular paper glued together, and oiled to give it the translucent look. The two layers of paper would allow me to hide the wires inside.

That is a pretty neat tutorial.

Any suggestions on how many I should make? Would six be overkill?

Six total or six moving?

I love those so much. They are on my list of "to-do's" for this season! Thanks for sharing.

I think 4 would be great, have three dead and one moving as if he is the last survivor, maybe you could get a sound clip from the original fly movie where he is saying in a tiny voice "help me".

That is an interesting tutorial link, I could have used it last year when I was making a skeletal fairy of sort; actually it was supposed to be a small winged demon of some type but I ran out of time to finish it and make multiples.



The image is the unfinished version, less some corpsing.

Your idea sounds interesting but honestly I'm a little confused. At first I thought maybe you were going to detail plans for a sort of undead fairy-mobile type contraption, but if I read it right your vision is more like fairies attracted to a light but become trapped on the fly paper?

Also in that the linked tutorial the author makes reference to using the Petite Pete Skeleton from the Anatomical Chart Company. The price of $10 each not including shipping is pretty steep for one fairy. A more economical solution is to stop by the Dollar Tree and pickup skeletons for there. They have a pack of 5 or 6 skeletons. They don't articulate fully like the ones from anatomical probably do, but for $1 you can't beat it!

idea: what about buying a cheap $7 spin brush, take out the motor and attach a paper clip or something to it. Make it in a "T" shape- when the motor tries to spin, those T arms would hit the inside of the body and look like your fairy is flailing. Just an idea, or maybe a starting point....