Quick & Easy Armature

**nightrideproductions** · 07-27-2010,12:03 PM

This is a way I came up with to make quick, cheap and easy armatures for props that appear to be coming out of the ground (Zombies, etc.).

Materials/Tools:
(you can use wadded-up newspaper instead of a wig head; tomato cages are available here)

First, turn the tomato cage upside-down, so that the largest circle is on the ground. Then, bend the 2 wires opposite eachother into the shape of arms. Remember to make shoulders, too:

Bend the third wire straight down, then up 90° at the middle of the top circle Cut the wire to an appropriate length so the wig head will slide all the way down:

Place the wig head onto the center wire (there are holes in the center of the necks:

Put newspaper around the shoulders to add padding:

Put a mask onto the wig head, and add a shirt. Bend the wires for the arms, and add hands if you want (You should also add newspaper around the arms, but I didn't for the picture):

And that's all there is to it. Use the tent stakes to hold it into the ground, and you're done.

**lollypopholly** · 07-27-2010,05:19 PM

not bad, not bad at all

**Jmurdock** · 07-27-2010,05:39 PM

Genius! I love a prop you can build with things you already have!

**alucard** · 07-27-2010,06:56 PM

What a great idea! Thanks for taking the time to show this. I know I will definitely use this process. It probably won't be so rough on my grass as the usual piece of plywood for a base.