Thread: Stalkabout scarecrow

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This was my first attempt at a stalkabout having researched all I could on this and other sites. I am not artistic and nor do I have an engineering background but I do have a love for Halloween!!
I have attached a few pics for your review while these words will have to suffice for assembly unless you ask for me detail.
I purchased a WW2 Backpack, Scarecrow mask, oversized monster hands and a styrofoam head. These are the core components of my project.
I dismantled an old soccer moms chair to get some aluminum pipe and I welded this to the existing backpack frame. This would give me my height, I placed a flat metal plate between the extended vertical poles along with 2 inverted hooks to give it a lean forwards over where my head would be.
Once welding was complete I added a set of football pads to the top of the frame to add shape and bulk to the shoulder area.
Arms and neck were formed from UPVC pipe.
The full face mask was filled with filling foam to bulk it out and give it shape. To facilitate movement the styrofoam head formed the core of the mask filling and I used this to glue it to a plastic plate as a solid base to connect the neck to. The neck was formed of UPVC pipe connected to an inverted sink drainage pipe where I could use the plug flange to fix it to the plate on the base of the head!!
Hands were foam filled with a single UPVC pipe inserted into each with a T piece added for easier arm control. The upper arms were connected to the top metal plate beneath the shoulder pads.
Feet are simply 2 pieces of chair foam hollowed out to take a shoe then wrapped in cloth, sprayed with glue and covered in much to give a fresh from the earth look.

My thanks go to everyone who has ever tried to create one of these and then taken the time to post details on the web. I am just following in your footsteps in an effort to keep the population of halloween stalkabouts growing. If you have questions, concerns or criticisms I am happy to respond to all!!

That's awesome! Do you have a video of it in action?

Fantastic job! The mask reminds me of Sam from Trick'r'Treat! I love the chain as a belt too. I just snagged a giant hanging monster from walgreens for 14 bucks (it is normally 30 something!) and am planning on making it my big project for this year, transforming it from decoration into stalkabout. i hope it turns out half as good as yours!

I do not have much very good video footage of it in action but I will see what I can do.
Thanks for the comments they are appreciated. I hope it shows everyone what is possible and I'm sure yours will be way better than mine. The chain belt gives the body appropriate scale which is what I was after. Too many of these stalkabouts are not to scale with heads too small for giant bodies. My aim was to avoid that.

Trouble is I need to work on the scare factor of mine... LED eyes and maybe a voice distorted for next year..!!