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As long as the bodies will be dressed, bagged, or in some way covered, you can make carpet dummies. Find some discarded, used carpeting (or get some from a carpet seller or installer), lay it out up-side-down, and trace someone with their legs almost together and their arms almost at their sides. Cut the traced piece out with a carpet or utility knife, then use it as a pattern to cut more. Make 2 smaller ones by cutting an inch or so inside the lines, then an even smaller one by cutting 2" inside the lines. Stack several full-sized pieces together (the actual quantity will depend on the thickness of each piece) then add a "small" and "smaller" piece to each side (to give it roundness). You might want to cut out a couple more localized pieces (head, bust, torso, butt, etc) to add appropriate bulk, depending on the desired gender and build of the dummy. Duct tape it all together (or wrap with wire). If you want the knees to "bend", cut through and remove small sections from MOST of the layers at the knee area. Carpet dummies are heavy enough that when someone bumps into one, it feels like it could really be a person. And they are very rugged - ever try to tear a piece of carpet with your bare hands?

The above instructions will emulate a stiff (rigor) corpse. A fresher corpse (swinging arms & legs) can be made by detaching the arms & legs and re-attaching them with rope, bolts, heavy wire or chain, etc.

Originally Posted by LV Scott T

As long as the bodies will be dressed, bagged, or in some way covered, you can make carpet dummies. Find some discarded, used carpeting (or get some from a carpet seller or installer), lay it out up-side-down, and trace someone with their legs almost together and their arms almost at their sides. Cut the traced piece out with a carpet or utility knife, then use it as a pattern to cut more. Make 2 smaller ones by cutting an inch or so inside the lines, then an even smaller one by cutting 2" inside the lines. Stack several full-sized pieces together (the actual quantity will depend on the thickness of each piece) then add a "small" and "smaller" piece to each side (to give it roundness). You might want to cut out a couple more localized pieces (head, bust, torso, butt, etc) to add appropriate bulk, depending on the desired gender and build of the dummy. Duct tape it all together (or wrap with wire). If you want the knees to "bend", cut through and remove small sections from MOST of the layers at the knee area. Carpet dummies are heavy enough that when someone bumps into one, it feels like it could really be a person. And they are very rugged - ever try to tear a piece of carpet with your bare hands?

The above instructions will emulate a stiff (rigor) corpse. A fresher corpse (swinging arms & legs) can be made by detaching the arms & legs and re-attaching them with rope, bolts, heavy wire or chain, etc.

I'd love to see a picture of that.

Originally Posted by Dragonomine

I'd love to see a picture of that.

The last one I made was for a hangman about 11 years ago, I don't believe we took pictures of him, and he is now long gone. I stopped doing hangmen, and haven't done a meat locker since then either, so I haven't made any new ones. Sorry.

I really like that idea Scott!!

HMMMM

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party city and frightcatalog sell inflateable body forms for about 15 bucks, they would be easy to hang and light enough for people to push through. You just have to blow them up, and dress them up, and they are ready to go. Also easy to store.

The inflatable forms are great for situations where you don't need a lot of detail. But they get expensive when you need a lot of them. For filling clothes, chicken wire works well, or even cardboard. Those methods are a lot cheaper, when you need a lot of them. But what can you do when you need detai? Like for a nude or partially clothed body? Or a female body in a dress? One of my biggest gripes with haunts is that the "victims" are always male, and or are whereing long pants and flannel. I want to strive for a higher level of realism in mine, but the latex bodies are too expensive, and real ones don't keep long enough. Any one have experience making nude bodies?

There is a body double technique using duct tape or brown paper parcel tape that might be good enough with a bit of mache work added.

Try here:

Paper-Tape Dress Form - Threads

Clone Yourself A Fitting Assistant - Threads

have a look at the other links as well.

Also if you can find yourself a model, you could try the traditional casting techniques to make a mold then use great stuff or whatever for the forms - carve and modify as required.

Youtube have a number of vids:

YouTube - body casting, the torso (Yes, she is over 18!)

I'd like to try it with a pregnant form - the possibilities would be excellent!

I'd like to try it with a pregnant form - the possibilities would be excellent!

Here ya go ... a tutorial vid of just that :


YouTube - the pregnant belly cast

I'd love to do something like a horned baby's face pushing through the skin on the pregnant body form.

Or maybe a serpent

Got to try this in a few years when the party is for adults!

Budget Bodies - HauntForum.com

how about this?