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I'm on this plastic corpsing kick. A thought just occurred to me for a different way to build a fairly lightweight giant spider.
Why not make your giant spider thorax (butt) out of chicken wire and Great Stuff with a corpsing technique like I did on my spider legs?
Once you form the chicken wire orb/sphere/whatever shape then heat gun a single or double layer of .7 mil plastic to it. After that, spray your layer of Great Stuff on it. Let that cure a few hours, and then corpse it again with the plastic drop cloth. You'll get some really funky bumpy textures and it should be exceptionally light. Best of all, automatically water proof. That plastic will let you get all kinds of creative with stains and/or painting techniques.
If you burn through the plastic, so what? Now you've got a decaying skin spider.
The only draw back is that the outside paint will need touch up every year as it'll flake right off the plastic.
Anyway, it's an idea for people wanting a lightweight big old spider. I'm for sure going this direction next time rather than a 12-15 day form building/paper mache construction. You could knock one of these out, minus legs and cephalothorax, in a day.
Why not make your giant spider thorax (butt) out of chicken wire and Great Stuff with a corpsing technique like I did on my spider legs?
Once you form the chicken wire orb/sphere/whatever shape then heat gun a single or double layer of .7 mil plastic to it. After that, spray your layer of Great Stuff on it. Let that cure a few hours, and then corpse it again with the plastic drop cloth. You'll get some really funky bumpy textures and it should be exceptionally light. Best of all, automatically water proof. That plastic will let you get all kinds of creative with stains and/or painting techniques.
If you burn through the plastic, so what? Now you've got a decaying skin spider.
The only draw back is that the outside paint will need touch up every year as it'll flake right off the plastic.
Anyway, it's an idea for people wanting a lightweight big old spider. I'm for sure going this direction next time rather than a 12-15 day form building/paper mache construction. You could knock one of these out, minus legs and cephalothorax, in a day.