Thread: Vince the Vandal

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I've been lurking in the shadows here for a while now, and have been posting here and there. So some of you know that I had some vandalism and theft in my display last year. While the police were not able to recover the missing props or catch the kids resposable they were able to tell me that I wasn't alone in this. So this year I've come up with a prop I've named Vince the Vandal, Vince is loosly based on Pumpkinrot's ground breakers, except he's going to be a half corps hanging from shackels with his guts hanging down, he's meant as a warning to the next vandal that comes into my yard this is where you'll end up. This is my first post in this section so please be kind.

I started with the materials:
News paper
tiolette paper and paper towels
carpet latex
painter's tape
and a foam skull
Oh! Yeah I almost forgot some eyes!

Pics:



so this is the skull I'm using, but Vince died a painful death so I cut the lower jaw off and re glued it in a sceaming(open mouthed) pose.
then I started the body



Got my materials



and started to make ribs and a spine



This is the body mostly put together as you can see, you have to have some very basic knowledge of what goes where.
Now to add the eyes



Woops! Added them to the wrong dummy, that's me!
Let's try that again and I'll add the head while I'm at it.



As you can see I've tried out a piece of "skin" but I'm not quite ready to go all the way on this yet, I've still got to add the arms, back to the news paper.



That's better, now I'll fatten out the joints a bit with more news paper.



I may have to add more to this latter, but it's a good start.
Now to start skinning him, for this I'll use the paper towels as a base, and skin toilette paper over it to smooth it out a bit (I don't care for the pattern of the paper towels showing through the latex).



Well that's as far as I've gotten so far I'll post some more as I go, I would appreciate any suggestions you all might have as to how I can make this as graphic as possible.

Your doing a fine job on Vince. Can't wait to see him finished.

I am liking your humor in your tutorial ! At first reading your story I thought I was in the Scary Scene Contest section ! You have a good story going on for that. If you hurry up and finish Vince, and set up your halloween display by August 14 (/) including a teenage vandel that has been subdued by good old Vince here, I would say you might be a contender. LOL !

Seriously tho. I like what your doing and your photo's are easy to follow.
I suggest taking the picture of the dummy with the eyes ( yes that would be you I am talking about) and post it up in the Member's photo section. They will get a kick out of that up there.

Keep up the good work!

Thank you both,
I don't think Vince will be finished before the 14th, but I certainly am trying. cylonfrogqueen, I may just do that with that photo of the dum(m(e)), I never even thought of that.

I've done some more work "fleshing" out Vince's face:



added some eye-lids and lips and cheeks



There is one question that I'm having trouble with to nose or not to nose? That is the question! I believe that I'm on the "scent" of a difficult question to answer, any suggestions?

Hmm... Looks like a cross between E.T. and the mummy, I'll have to do some more work I guess.

HOLLY "HELL"!! That looks soooo amazing...

Wow! It's looking good! I'm excited to watch the progress.

Thanks, I hope to have some more pics tonight or tomorrow the latest. I've startes on the fleshing out of the arms and started to further cover his body...What's left of it that is. He-he

So this is what Vince looks like now:



As you can see I've finished fleshing out his ribs and his arms, on his arms, though he needed some more 'body,' (desicated muscle) Since the morgue kind of frowns on you walking in and just cutting some off of random bodies, I chose to make them out of wadded up tiolette tissue (Un-used) wrapped in Paper towels (also un-used). These were fairly easy to attach, because the latex was still damp, so fairly sticky, you can get a look at how this worked out in these next two images:





Now I decided to go with no nose so his face is just about finished, just a few more details to add to the face.





The next couple of things I have to do are the hands, and the guts, oh! I almost forgot, I've also got to make some shackels for him to be chained up with. For those I'm going to use a couple of small cranberry sauce cans with maybe some sculpy adornments to make them look really nasty.
mmmmmmm....sculpy
Then for the chain, I'll try to find some plastic chains at the hardware store. So that's where Vince is now, Hopefully I'll have a new set of photos in a couple of days.

This is looking good! You have done great job so far, Will look to seeing the progress and the finished item

I think you are doing a great job. You make it seem sooo easy.Your inspiring me ... dam it!