Thread: A few pictures from previous projects

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I dont know if I posted this in the right section or not.... so please move it if you need to.

Hey everyone, I am new obviously. Anyway, I just wanted you all to check out some of the projects I worked on in 2007 when I was a lot younger and had less cash to make things look better but take a look anyway. I moved so I had to sell, donate or throw away all of my halloween projects and I was so sad about that. My girlfriend wants me to make a few things for her place now so I am getting back into it and starting off with one of my previous projects for CHEAP, a corpse.


Pictures! Unfortunately I couldnt find all of them from all my projects and I took pictures at the end of the night when the props were tormented by little kids.

Corpse ($20 plastic skeleton, Elmer's wood glue $3 , tissues $.97 for 200 sheet box, cheap CAN dark wood stainer $5-6)

http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/photos/20886452
http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/photos/20886276

Skeleton head on a cross or skeleton-head scarecrow (cheap plastic skull, burlap bag for free from grocery store (potato bag), black spray paint and then some basic acrylic paints (white, gray, dark green), head was hot glued to the burlap sack in the sockets of the face and the back and top of the head and then was hot glued to the cross, wood glue or something probably would have worked better for burlap to cross, just a inexpensive crappy rope spray painted and the lumber for the cross was from the trash or lumberyard and spray painted.)

http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/...a=0&i=20886832
http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/...a=0&i=20885991

Head on a stick (after the night was over and all the kids touched it, kinda fell apart). The head had glow sticks in its eyes, stuffed with news paper and taped in the back to stay together, then head was stuck on a dow rod (sp?). REALLY cheap and really simple to make.

http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/photos/20886105

Ghost (was half taken down)
Ghost was made from a lamp, Styrofoam mannequin head attached to top of lamp, black light bulb, fan behind it to make it more realistic, and it also had coat hanger/wire arms/hands attached to the lamp neck, to make it appear the ghost was coming toward you in a haunting way)
White thin see-through sheet a few bucks, blight light bulb - like a dollar or something, moveable flexible fan already had, wire coat hanger, mannequin head was like $5 i think at a halloween store from one of there wigs displays.

http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/...a=0&i=20887350

Mummy (literally put together in a day, and you can actually tell by looking at it)
Refrigerator cardboard box cut into a human rounded off shape, cant remember how much fabric it was but it was a very heavy material (next time it will be lighter and thinner strips of material also), the whole inside of the mummy is news paper balls with duck tape. Next time I would use something more durable that holds a human body form better, and I would also if cardboard was used again, reinforce the back of the mummy (on the inside of it) with PVC pipes probably to make it stand up more. The mummy also had a cheap mask from like CVS for $5 and then a cheap hand for the same or less. Hot glue the strands together on the back and you got yourself a less than 1 day mummy thrown together. Also kids were running up to it and taking pictures and touching it all the time so that kinda did a wear-and-tear over the few hours of trick-or-treating.

http://www.myspace.com/drumzplaya13/...a=0&i=20885712

Hope you all enjoyed looking at the pictures and what I used to make them

I will be posting soon about some help with a fog machine turning into a fogger but Ill search the forum first and see if I can find my answer.

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iMindLess

great pics! love the corpse!!

and welcome to the forum!!!

very nice corpse

Thanks! I somewhat pride myself on the corpse, probably because it took me the longest and the others were, somewhat thrown together. I am right now working on the same exact corpse as we speak for this year again since I sold my last one at a garage sale, FOR $5!!! I was so sad cause the hard work I put into it. It went to good use though for a halloween party for a bunch of preteen kids.

I do plan on either this year or next to step it up a notch and make one out of a skeleton which is not soft plastic and make it more realistic.

Thanks again for the comments

Those are nice looking props. I really like the corpse!

$20 plastic skeleton from one of those halloween stores, cheap tissues, Elmer's wood glue and then some dark wood stain and you would be able to do it yourself. It cost me less than $30 to make it, IMO its so worth it!

I am currently working on another one right now, I started with a foot and the calf today to see how it drys and I will go from there.

I guess I could do a tutorial on it...?

Welcome!!!!
Nice job on the props.