Thread: "The Bride" Tutorial Part 3

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No wonder I have been missing you on chat...you have been very busy!

Wow,

great job and tutorial. Let me just say that there are a few places people could save money when trying to create something similar to this prop. I'm not familiar with the clay materials that you use, but I have found that to build up small areas (of say, the face), paper towels and carpet adhesive work great.

And if you can't get a hold of a body form, you can easily create body forms by the duck-taping method:
- Have a person wear some disposable clothing.
- Wrap them tightly in duct tape (2-3 rolls)
- Snip off the clothing/duct tape.
- retape the slit, pack the form tightly with crumpled newspapers. You will need to skin the form after this (to eliminate the duct tape texture). This can, again be done with carpet adhesive.

I think the previous post needs to be backed up with some pictures before making such a claim. I would caution those who have not worked with carpet latex to expect results even close to what LaurieBeast has done here.

Originally Posted by dylanwalker

Wow,

great job and tutorial. Let me just say that there are a few places people could save money when trying to create something similar to this prop. I'm not familiar with the clay materials that you use, but I have found that to build up small areas (of say, the face), paper towels and carpet adhesive work great.

And if you can't get a hold of a body form, you can easily create body forms by the duck-taping method:
- Have a person wear some disposable clothing.
- Wrap them tightly in duct tape (2-3 rolls)
- Snip off the clothing/duct tape.
- retape the slit, pack the form tightly with crumpled newspapers. You will need to skin the form after this (to eliminate the duct tape texture). This can, again be done with carpet adhesive.

Hey,

Really there's no reason to be rude. I think you might have misunderstood. I think what is shown here is amazing work and I'm not trying to belittle it in any way. I was simply trying to suggest some cheaper and more readily available materials that will get the job done.

To the point, however, I believe that amazing form can be achieved with carpet adhesive. This, by the way, is technically not the same thing as carpet latex, which I also have worked with, but is very hard to find nowadays. Its limitations are, to a large extent, those of the sculptor. I cannot attest to being so artistically capable myself, though I have personally seen great results.

e.g., while its not the finished product (perhaps I can drudge up the photo of the finalized prop, if you wish... I think you'd be surprised), I think is well on the way to showing what can be achieved:

[apparently I don't have the seniority here to post links, but a search for the terms "the scream something wicked southport" will lead directly to the photo I'm talking about]
(this is done only with paper towel and carpet adhesive).

btw, please feel free to browse all my HH photos, which can be found by searching for
"something wicked southport" on www flickr com


Actually, the big point I wanted to make was that of the duct-tape body forms. I don't know about you, but I can't afford those seamstress bodyforms for every corpse prop. They anyway need modification to look realistic (as is pointed out in this tutorial).

Sorry about the lengthy response.



Dylan

How-to's are written to describe how someone made a prop. It is not "how to make a prop as cheaply as possible".

dylanwalker - for your first post you shouldn't have hijacked another member's thread.

thanks for the great ideas! we have started simalar projects with the material from michaels and it works great! ill post the complete pics when im done as we are also taking them as we go.......

btw, the eye idea worked great! i cant believe how real they look! we tried using playdough and plaster of paris for the first set of teeth and they turned out good, ive ordered a denture cast from ebay for the second head.

That is AWESOME! Ya know the field in MySpace where you're supposed to fill in "Heroes"?? I'm changing mine to say "Lauriebeast"