Teaser #4

Should have worn a costume last year teenage Trick r Treaters. The mask might have protected your face. This year, you can be the mask.



Let me tell you a little story about a man named "Ed"....

Teaser #3

1 piece of my most ambitious prop of the year.

Build Season Week 9

Halloween is now 8 days away!!

This weekend we were putting the finishing touches on a lot of props. teeth for one guy, feet for another, repairing props from last year that were damaged in storage.

We got cauldron creep out and put him together.





I finished the wiring on firebringer which makes no sense from the pictures but runs of two separate tealight led flicker circuits.






I paper mached the last of my corpses, which took 6 hours! Man what a pain.





I built a stand for this very heavy bucky skeleton and a table.



Next week will have some building but will be most setting up and testing the black light tunnels and the volcano. I am scrambling to finish my projects at home and maintain my relationship, as this is the time of year when my GF hates me for making such a huge mess and ignoring her. Mostly it is the mess though.

Teaser #2

Teaser

It's coming. See a bit more at my other blog.

Build Season Week 8

Another busy weekend, so busy in fact there are only a few pictures in comparison to how much got done. I did two 14 hour days to get as much done as I could. I am so tired and sore, and if I didn't have to earn a living I'd be back tonight.

We finished the Tower of Death:


And we finished the volcano:




I started the mache on my Sconce corpses:




Zac made a corpse for our man eating vines to attack:


Lava Creep got a head:




Other things that got done but not photographed:

scared corpse got mached
firebringer is mache ready
lantern corpse is mache ready
reed scarecrows made
carver creep got a stand and primed
candles got finished and painted
skulls cast
and probably some stuff I forgot!

I am so tired today. Think I might go sleep in my car for lunch.

Build Season Week 7

Patty and I put in three whole days of work this weekend with everyone else doing full days on Saturday and Sunday. We got a lot of stuff done. Except for me, almost everybody's projects are done or almost done. Now everyone just has to pitch in to get everything done. I mean they have to help me finish my projects. Yay halloween?

Patty and Tricia weather some voodoo dolls:


Zac and Tricia prime and paint a giant cheetoh:


I adjusted the eyes on volcano to be more scary:


Zac, Tricia and Patty weather the wood on the tower of death:


Kendra touches up the paint of volcano:


and she made us a bunch of hands:


I built the frames for the tarp covered black light area:


Zac starts one more corpse:


I worked on my Sconce Corpses:






and Cappy took a nap: