Thread: need help with grim reaper prop

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I had a pretty cool MM grim reaper last year but he was about 7 ft tall and the pvc was severely bending from the weight of the MM and he fell a couple times. So now I am going to rebuild him for this year. This time around I was thinking of making his head turn side to side. I have an oscillating fan I can use to do this, but my question is more really how would I make the entire head move with it still being MM and chicken wire? If you MM it and then kinda wrinkle up the cloth to soften up the mm, do you think that would work? But then the chicken wire won't move. hmmm Any other ideas?

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That had better be one heckuva powerful oscillating fan! Seems like a lot of weight to wag back and forth. Hmm. The gears in those things are typically plastic and don't hold up too well.

As for making the head move back and forth, you could maybe do a seam, but that might look dumb. If you make it oscillate while the mud is drying, it may take a long time to dry but it would theorhetically allow it to move after the mud dries.

Maybe a seam in the chicken wire, making the head independent and allowing it to oscillate when MM is still wet....I kinda like that.

I would cut the MM and chicken wire and make 2 pieces.(head/torso) Fix any damage to torso.Mount fan to body.Leave a small gap between 2 hunks(say 1 inch) once the head moves smoothly cover the gap with a strip of black fabric attached to head.It should slide around torso good enough.