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One of the neatest props that I,ve seen. How did you make the stem thats coming out of the top of his head?

hi moosecat and thanks!

The stem pics are in part 4 (the torso) and is attached with only clear tape here and there to keep it in place until the paper mache is applied. Once the paper mache is applied and dried it's nice and solid. It also touched the arm and is paper mache'd there for extra support so the stem doesn't move back and forth.

I would add a green light to the head and pump some fog in there. But thats just me

Whats the best reciepe for paper mache and glue? I.ve never used it. Thx

Hi moosecat,

I use 1 part elmers white glue and 2 parts water but I'll be trying stolloween's recipe next year. I got to see Resurrected's paper mache ground breaker a couple weeks ago (which is awesome btw) and he used stoloween's recipe. It dried much harder than my recipe and needed less layers.

his recipe is:
"My paste recipe is six cups of flour + one cup of liquid starch + one cup of white glue. Using a mixer blend these ingredient with enough warm tap water until you have the consistency of a very thin pancake batter."

and here's stoloween's recipe web page:
stolloween paper mache recipe

have fun!

Thanks for the tip I appreciate it.

nice prop, may I suggest putting red or green spot lighting?

Good advice on the lights tamster, lighting is always a challenge for me. We've been mostly using those landscaping ground lights for the last few years along side a couple of bigger flood lights. I think the picture on the right was taken with a blue flood light.

Halloween is right around the corner (YAY!) and I wanted to share a couple of other paper mache projects that used almost the same technique as this one. The groundbreaker is the same concept except instead of a chicken wire head it was a plastic skull from Target and a heat gun is used to warm up the pvp arms and get them to bend into a more natural shape. A quick spray of water after getting the hot pvc into shape will quickly set the bone in place. Super cheap on all of them, under $20 if I remember correctly.

Also, I saw a show on the Discovery channel about how they make paper mache statues and saw that they were using a thick brown paper for their statues and only used two layers. Anyone ever use a heavier guage craft paper instead of newspaper and can you get good details out of it? I'd love to hear any ideas about making the paper mache step go faster too!

Originally Posted by FirstSpartan

Good advice on the lights tamster, lighting is always a challenge for me. We've been mostly using those landscaping ground lights for the last few years along side a couple of bigger flood lights. I think the picture on the right was taken with a blue flood light.

Halloween is right around the corner (YAY!) and I wanted to share a couple of other paper mache projects that used almost the same technique as this one. The groundbreaker is the same concept except instead of a chicken wire head it was a plastic skull from Target and a heat gun is used to warm up the pvp arms and get them to bend into a more natural shape. A quick spray of water after getting the hot pvc into shape will quickly set the bone in place. Super cheap on all of them, under $20 if I remember correctly.

Also, I saw a show on the Discovery channel about how they make paper mache statues and saw that they were using a thick brown paper for their statues and only used two layers. Anyone ever use a heavier guage craft paper instead of newspaper and can you get good details out of it? I'd love to hear any ideas about making the paper mache step go faster too!

love what you did, it's excellent it really sets the mood, as far as using craft paper, I never used but have with magazine paper. I don't think there is any way to go faster. LOL I actually do many layers, paper, then paper towel to get really veiny look. I graduated to monster mud, oh joy that is !!! but I am halfway finishing my 10ft er shall I say now 11 1/2 ft reaper. I will be posting it when I am at the time of sealing the sucker!!! My advice is take your time, the results are worth it.