Thread: Need a little advice

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Last year, I made a prop for the first time ... a spider victim

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...202009/361.jpg

Got a few compliments on the big guy and I decided that i'd try it again this year. I made three things. A cemetery fence from old wood skids that were given to me by my dad's company was the first one I did.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...202010/007.jpg

Then the second prop that I made was a sign because I didn't want to pay 30 dollars for an itty bitty one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...202010/014.jpg

The third is a spider egg to go with the spider victim, but I haven't taken a photo of it just yet.

So by now you're probably wondering what in the hell I'm asking.

The first involves the fence, is there anything else I should put on the outside of it?

The second is involving the sign. Other than wondering if I should put more bugs on it, the question with that is, I've put glow in the dark paint in the letters but I haven't seen it glow, so should I have put a primer on it first to have avoided the paint sinking in?

1st. Cemetery looks great! bout all you could do is add webs or maybe moss in different sections but really its up to your own personal feeling. Make it your own! You could try weathering the wood slats with a wet brush technique with watered down blacks, grays, and greens.

2. I imagine a white primer base would be better for the glow in the dark to show through. Make sure it gets a lot of light during the day also.

I have a bunch of moss left over from doing patch up work on the tombstones, last year was really windy and messed them up bad, so that could work. Spray adhesive some of the moss on various slats perhaps?

As well, I bought a web caster gun to web up the side of the house where normally I sit to do the candy hand out for the ToT`s, would that hold on wood?

As for the sign, we put it up in the garden so hopefully it gets some sun tomorrow and I can see if it shines properly tomorrow night, but I may go see about some primer at lunch tomorrow just in case.

Even the best glow in the dark paint won't continue to glow without a UV source. I'd try a CFL blacklight in a cheap worklight deflector. It looks like you can probably mount one under the garage eave.

oh webcasting sticks to everything well :P

I actually like the simpleness of the fence, maybe add a few cobwebs? Im stealing your idea for the sign, I love it!

Originally Posted by Glyphen

oh webcasting sticks to everything well :P

How good is it coming off of bricks, trees and light fixtures?

Reason I ask, my father is telling me I better practice on the fence and the pole before I attempt to web up everything else LOL

Originally Posted by kittyvibe

I actually like the simpleness of the fence, maybe add a few cobwebs? Im stealing your idea for the sign, I love it!

I`ll pass the compliment on to the constructor of my fence, aka my father. I had said to him that I wanted a rickety cemetery fence, that was what he had come up with

By all means, please do steal it.

When like I said I saw the sign in the store, I wasn`t about to pay 30 for a tiny version, then I saw it a similar sign made by someone in their halloween haunt photos online, I was oooh fate and adapted it into my sign

for us it just fell away after a couple of days. We didn't do it too thick though. We actually had no clean up since it is so light and thin it just blew away. I'd be hesitant to web up any light fixtures, or at least the bulb areas for fear of a fire. Be sure to use a rather large compressor. Say 30 gallonish. Smaller ones seemed to over heat after just a little bit of webbing. It's very air intensive :P

Originally Posted by Glyphen

for us it just fell away after a couple of days. We didn't do it too thick though. We actually had no clean up since it is so light and thin it just blew away. I'd be hesitant to web up any light fixtures, or at least the bulb areas for fear of a fire. Be sure to use a rather large compressor. Say 30 gallonish. Smaller ones seemed to over heat after just a little bit of webbing. It's very air intensive :P

Normally when I used the fake web in a bag, I just usually put the webbing on the bottom of the light and down the garage wall.

I`m not sure how big my dad`s compressor capacity is, but it is fairly huge, he`s had it going at 150 PSI a few weeks ago when he was putting up baseboards, so hopefully that`s an okay compressor to use, I hope.