Thread: Cemetary Caretaker

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How Cool! I 'll try making this with my son

Another great prop that makes me wish I had a warehouse to store our Halloween stuff ... and a much bigger yard

You did a really great job on this!

I haven't been online here for a bit (we just moved still settling in) but thank you all for the compliments.

I agree he needs better lighting. This year I will work on that using the great suggestions..should be interesting at the new house.

This thread deserves bumped up as it is an excellent build, and highly informative How-to.

I love this prop, on first sight you'd think this was a real person in a mask. My Husband just saw it and he's not a Halloween fan like me and even he said it's amazing. He said people would pay for a prop like that...I would!

If only the UK would grasp the Halloween fever like in the States, we'd have more stuff to work with. We have to try and work out what we can use to replicate the ingenious propbuilders from the other side of the pond.

Originally Posted by DamoTheRed

If only the UK would grasp the Halloween fever like in the States, we'd have more stuff to work with. We have to try and work out what we can use to replicate the ingenious propbuilders from the other side of the pond.

The few decent props I've seen here are so expensive in comparison to the U.S too.

That is a very cool prop! Awesome job, you have inspired me!

Originally Posted by Mizerella

The body is PVC
Iused a heat gun to curve it and give him movement.

I forgot to take pictures but his body is built up. Shaped Chicken wire stuffed it with crumpled news paper for his torso. I used old pool noodles to build up the arms and legs and lots of layers news paper and old fasioned paper mache until he is thick and hard as a rock.

then I attached the head and built up the neck with crumbled news paper covered with a couple layers of mache then building up with celluclay



I also made him some ears out of foil and clay over them. This is when his face started getting details using paper clay.



When done I sealed the whole thing with drylock several times.

This is awesome! Do you have pics or description of the base of the prop to have him standing and supporting the weight of the structure? This always seems to be where we hit a snag...the prop always tends to be heavier than what we planned so it winds up toppling over and then have to scramble to try to think of some way to support it without ripping the whole thing apart!

Wow, that is fantastic!