Halloween Decorating "How To"

[MoreGore]

Already started my first project for 2013!!

I've had this jello mold for a few years now and new exactly what I wanted to do with it but kept dragging my feet!


I'm going to use it to make some skulls for my fence columns.....


I'll hollow out some of the back so I can glue a block of wood to it and then screw them to the sides of the columns; This will be decorative of course but also function as further stability to keep my 1/4" pieces of foam from blowing apart.

Here are my first 5 attempts; #1-I used the back/lid that comes with the mold and it didn't let enough air in to cure.  After that I discarded the back/lid and they started turning out a lot better but I kept releasing them from the mold to early leaving a bubble every time around the brow area.


CLOSE UPS~
attempt #1 & 2; I'll still use the "messed up" ones since these are supposed to be aged/weathered anyways!


#3 & 4


#5


and #7...I know I skipped 6!  This one was the very last of the Great Stuff, and my wife started to release it from the mold a little early (she was tired of this thing sitting in the kitchen for the past few weeks) so it had some of the earlier air bubble issues!


This is a really easy project and the skulls could be used for a variety of purposes/decorations; I'll trim up some of the back off of these so they lay flatter, paint them white and them age/weather them before attaching them to my columns!  Now I just need some more Great Stuff and I'll only have about 20 more to go!

Also I do not use any kind of releasing agent, once the foam is cured (at least 24 hours) I just carefully pull it out of the mold!

I'm also thinking about buying the Walking Dead zombie jello mold and trying it with that!

9"x5"

If nothing else they'd be cool little busts to paint!

That is way awesome! 

[zombiehorror]

No tutorial that I see of on these but they seem like a fairly easy project; burlap material and monster mud (latex paint, mixed with drywall mud) I think would do the trick!

They look pretty cool like this............


But when lite up they are just awesome looking spooks!




http://shellhawksnest.blogspot.com/2010/03/ghosts-of-rhyolite-revisited.html

[Hepcat]

Oh yeah! Those would look great come the big day!

[charp13]

ZH- I love these things!  I bet if I look on Pinterest, I can find out the specifics on them! I have found so many new ideas for H2K14!
I really like making life size characters like these guys. And I'm getting more confident each year      

[aura of foreboding]

Those are amazing.  The white goes well with the desert background.  I'd like to see black robes in a forest setting.

[MoreGore]

No tutorial that I see of on these but they seem like a fairly easy project; burlap material and monster mud (latex paint, mixed with drywall mud) I think would do the trick!

They look pretty cool like this............


But when lite up they are just awesome looking spooks!




http://shellhawksnest.blogspot.com/2010/03/ghosts-of-rhyolite-revisited.html

one coolest Halloween prop ideas I have seen! gonna check out that blog thanks for posting

[zombiehorror]

one coolest Halloween prop ideas I have seen! gonna check out that blog thanks for posting

I think these are actually sculptures so there isn't really a how to on them, I just think one could achieve the same effect with minimal effort.

[aura of foreboding]

Yup.  I knew that I had seen them before.  Those are the Ghosts of Rhyolite.  I think they used to have exterior lighting, which was far more eerie than the interior bulbs.  It's all about shadows, after all.