All your photos ROCK! It's like seeing something out of a magazine or something!

 

I was just thinking the same thing. Awesome photos. I would love to see a nice tutorial on taking pics of my haunt. They never truly capture the creepyness.

 

This pic kicks donkey butt , I really dig the lighting hell of a job Spider Rider!

 

great spider , very similar to the way i built mine ( your legs look way better ! )heres some pics that might help anyone trying to build on of these

i used different angles at the body , and i also shot a screw on each side of the muffler clamps to keep each set of legs from turning

hope this helps

 

SG it does many thanks.

 

Wow! Excactly how I did it. Yours is more of a leggy super model spider. Mine is the pregnant version. Very cool.

As for photos, I light everything with cfl color bulbs in a "clamp-on" reflector painted black. You can see some attached to the spider. (This keeps all lights roughly in the same brightness range) The camera is on a tripod (a must under low light) and shoot after sunset but just before night. This gives a little color to the sky and brings out more detail that will normally go black in a night shot.

 

OK, its settled, you guys should mate your spiders and sell the brood to all of us for 1 dollar each! KGO!

 

Spider Rider, many thanks it was me who asked, now I have to see if I can build one myself.

 

np glad to help

 

Thanks for the inspiration guys! Any idea what cost of materials ended up being for the pvc you had to purchase? What diameter pvc did you use? It's hard to tell from your pics but do you know the length of your spider legs and how tall off the ground he ended up being? Really nice job both of you.

 

My spider is disassembled in the attic but I think it was around 1 1/4 dia. pvc, Schedule 40 which is the thicker wall tube. From the body to the first knuckle are glued joints. The bottom 2 sections pull out for storage. Here are 2 pics with a blucky skeleton to give an idea of size.

 

So your legs are great, but what I really want to know is how you got that fantastic body??? I tried that line at a bar once, and it didn't go so well. Hoping to have more luck here. So really, is there a how to for making the body that I missed? If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?

 

So are you checkin' out my spiders butt or Scarry Garry's? Mine is a fiberglassed beach ball with a tube through the middle. I pound some rebar into the lawn and put the tube over it. The legs are a seperate unit that I back up to the body once it's in place.
It was my first fiberglass project. I coated half of the beach ball with cloth and resin and let it harden over night. The ball would deflate by morning so when I added air it would squeeze out in a lumpy shape which was a plus that made things look more organic. I then coated the other half. I left the ball inside.

 

PVC is our friend, great work you guys, I am impressed.

 

Both spiders look great! I am really thinking about trying this. Could you give me the deminsions of the different lengths on the leg pieces?

 

Since there seems to be some interest I'll pull down stuff from the attic and shoot some assembly pics Monday and also take measuremets on my set up. I can't speak for ScarryGarry's dimensions.

 

Goodness that spider is awesome!

 

Here are some assembly pics. The measurements are almost done. The string is some jute pulled apart and hot glued on so they hang down from the legs. When there's a light breeze it adds to the creep factor. The eyes are vaseline glass marbles that glow under black light. The spider was part of a school haunt for 3 years and under blacklight inside.

the only 90 degree elbows are at these joints

 

The 4 straight legs are 5 ft. long. Two of the angled legs are 29"top and 36" bottom
the other 2 angled legs 29" top and 40" on the bottom. The angle pipe fittings are 45 degrees.
The longer angled legs are the ones that stick up near the back. The board the legs attach to is around 14" (hard to tell under the Great Stuff foam.) For different leg thicknesses I used grey foam pipe insulation covered with burlap soaked in monster mud. The middle section is a great stuff foam coating and the bottom section is bare pvc pipe.

 

This looks like some insane child's school playground toy. The one that goes round and round?

 

For 2009 a new rider for the spider, a Pumpkinrot inspired gaurdian with a skull flail.

 

OMG I love this pic! I love the spider I love the rider and I really love how you put the pumpkin head with the skeleton body!!! Simply Fabulous darling

 

Your PVC spider looks awesome had to save a pic!

 

My 2010 project list just keeps growing, and growing, and growing,, to bad my wallet dosent to the same!!!!

These spiders are great!~! hope mine looks half as good as those!!

 

i forgot to post a pic of my updated spider , thanks for inspiring me to make her legs better spider rider

 

Put the little spider down and run baby run or um...crawl quickly, mama spider is pissed. Looks good ScaryGarry.

 

Oooh, love the new rider!!! Much better than the pirate.