Mystic Moon:
Hey thank you, too kind. I mostly stick to organic materials for effect...I'm a big, big. big pumpkinrot fan and believe he is far and away the best of our generation. However I also have a very busy work schedule as many of us do, kids things, just had a homecoming thing for our youngest son, yay...so the paper mache method that he uses isn't really in my best interests, so I am a plastic and heat gun monster, anyway...
So the framing, the armatures on most of my things are either heavy vines that I get from the cemetery that Night of the living dead was filmed at, or PVC pipe with sticks and vines, glued, tied, taped over top. I'll start with a nice limb for a spine, then build off of that. It does usually take me a couple hours to put one...such as either this scarecrow, RED...(remember everyone deployed) or one of my older props, together. The bunny was just a spine/shoulder/waist that I'd tied together last year and some vine ribs that took about a half hour to place. No magic, no quick tips, just place and tie, place and tie, etc. The vines, when initially cut, are pretty bendable, hence the reasoning behind them.