Pumpkin King Build
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The actual total build of this was done over the course of two Halloweens. I made the pumpkin king and post the first year, then the base the second. I gathered all the parts of this build together in this video to show everything that went into it. Once again I've skimmed over some parts because I have other videos that show the details involved. This guy is one of my favorite props!
This is not the exact Pumpkin I used, but is a great size and shape to use for this project... amzn.to/2othqvl
This is the skeleton I took the torso from to make this. It can be found cheaper from local retailers around Halloween time, especially in clearance sales... amzn.to/2q3pHX2
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HOW TO MAKE THE NOODLE ROOTS ON THE BASE - • How to Make Noodle Roots
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his tutorial is for personal use only. If you want to make this prop for your own haunt, that is fine. No recreation is allowed for resale or production without written consent.
Music - Sam Haynes/Mischief Night
Dude! Fantastic! I know what I want to build for next year!
Sweet! A lot of techniques went into this. If our pumpkin king doesn't go up this year you can bet we'll be trying some of this in January to start our 2020 haunt! Thanks!
Liquid latex and shop towels ah ha! Always wondered how you did that. Been making props inspired by yours and have been using “monster mud”, chicken wire and burlap for most.
My latest project was the “Twisted Sisters”. Two skeletons with long hair and branch fingers. Wish I could post pics 😜
Join the Facebook group "Haunter's Hangout" and post em there!
Oak Lane Cemetery will do!
Wow Greg! You are extremely talented! These builds go far beyond ingenuity and technical expertise - you have a real artistic gift and eye for detail. So inspirational! Well done!
Thanks. I'm far more of an artist than any kind of technical genius to be sure!
WOW!!! Creepy awesome!
I see what you mean that latex layer really adds a lot to the build. Makes it really awesome good work.
Thanks. This prop has been out for the month of October for three years now and the only issues I've had was a bit of paint fading and some damage at the flexible joints from the stretching of the material causing some tearing. The shop towel corpsing is not flexible enough for stretching when posing. I went back and repaired the tears last year with a thick coat of straight latex and it seemed to fix the issue.
There are not enough words to describe how awesome this prop is. Color me inspired! Big time. You are on fire this year.
Thanks! This guy is actually a couple of years old. I've gotten so many requests for video tutorials that I'm converting some of the photo album tutorials over to video. Some of my builds like this one were completed or improved over the course of two or three seasons so this also helps to bring those projects together into one tutorial instead of several photo albums.
I knew I had seen him before!
Well, that is one excellent tutorial. Thanks again for sharing.
You should be proud!
you definitely got the corpsing technique down. great paint job and the whole thing is awesome!
That’s awesome! you could tell you like what you do! Very creepy!
Absolutely "EPIC"! 👍👻
All of your builds are absolutely fantastic. Where in the heck do you store all this awesome stuff.
Cool! Love his hands!
Thanks so very much for the fantastic tutorial!! Has given me inspiration to try something similar for next year!!!
Amazing work!!
This is awesome. All your videos are. Well done
Thank you
Great work man well done
Wow that is amazing! Keep up the great work!
Thank you
Amazing work! 💀💀💀
AWESOME!!
Fantastic work !!! Love it !! HFL!!
You have some mad skills. :)
:) Thanks!
Wow!!!
How did u secure the arms to the torso? Awesome build by the way
Thick zip ties through washers placed inside the shoulder sockets. The zip ties loop through holes drilled in the arm pipes. The washers are too big to pass through the shoulder socket holes. Makes it nice and floppy/flexible for posing on the posts and I can fold the arms across his chest when I take it all apart for storage.
If you don't mind me asking, what brand of shop towels did you use?
Thank you and awesome job!
This project was a while back, but I THINK it was Brawny. It's been a while. I know they had a very light texture on one side and none on the other and I had to pay attention to which side I faced out because of that. I remember they were the super heavy duty ones too, I think these... amzn.to/3a2NACV Any heavy duty non-textured white towel should work. I've even used paper towels or toilet tissue in a pinch, or for extra wrinkle texture, but the thinner the towel, the less sturdy the end product will be.
Niiiiiice....! 😅👍👍👍
This is a masterpiece, well done indeed! How much liquid latex did it take to complete? When you spread on the liquid latex ,is there much manipulating it into shape?
If memory serves I went through 2 tubs of the mold maker latex from Michael's. When I did my shop towel skinning I did it with roughly 4"-6" patches. I coated one side with latex, then positioned it where I wanted with the wet side down. Then I coated the top side heavily and completely and used the brush to slide it around a little for final positioning. Tear all the edges of each patch of towel so there are no straight lines. It will show when you apply the stain if there are any straight edges.
By shop towels, do you mean the fabric sort?
No. I mean the thick paper towel type. Usually they are blue, but sometimes you can find white ones. Just be sure there is no embossed pattern on them or it will show on the finished corpsing.
@@OakLaneCemetery thank you kindly!
And toilet or tissue paper works great for top covering areas and creating fine wrinkles. You just apply some to an area of wet latex, coat it with more latex, then use a brush to push it around and create the wrinkles.
@@OakLaneCemetery thank you for taking so much time to explain
How do you paint your plastic corpsing, just acrylics?
I usually base coat latex corpsing with flat black house paint, then paint with acrylics or exterior house paint. (I buy the little sample bottles of different colors) For plastic corpsing I'm moving towards base coating with a mix of 1 part carpet adhesive, 1 part latex, and 1 part black house paint. Seems to stick much better to plastic than just paint alone. I top coat everything with spar varnish or clear spray, depending on the finish I want.
@@OakLaneCemetery hmmm, I think we have a different name for latex paint here in the UK
The latex I refer to in the 1/1/1 base coat mix is liquid latex, not latex paint. 1 part carpet adhesive, 1 part liquid latex, and one part black house paint. Over here I can get liquid latex in black instead of it's natural color so that really helps out.
@@OakLaneCemetery oh! Thanks you! I will hunt for black latex!
This is where I get mine... www.monstermakers.com/rd-407-mask-making-latex/
This is really incredible! Thank you for posting! I would like to do something similar. How did you attach the pumpkins stably to the spine?
Had to make a couple of tries before I figured out a way to get it secure. I inserted and glued a short piece of pvc pipe into the top of the spine. You want to have enough pipe sticking out from the top of the spine so about 1/2" is sticking up inside pumpkin when it's on. Once the pipe is trimmed to the right length mark a spot on the front of it that is right against the INSIDE bottom of the pumpkin. Drill a hole all the way through the pipe at that mark, front to back. The hole needs to be big enough for a pin of some sort to slip through. (I used a piece of an old ink pen) Set your pumpkin back over the pipe, then use long pliers or something similar to put the pin through the holes in the pipe via the pumpkins mouth. You want about an inch of pin to be sticking out on each side. This will keep the pumpkin from easily coming off the pipe. Now just go crazy with Gorilla glue all over the pipe, pin, and neck hole. Once the glue sets the head will not move so be sure it's positioned how you want before the glue sets. Not the most elegant solution, but it's held for three years now.
Oak Lane Cemetery awesome! Thank you for the detailed response! Can’t wait to start working on it! Also, after the corpsing, paint and layer of wood stain is it pretty waterproof or is there something else you do for waterproofing?
Oak Lane Cemetery do you feel that you get the same effect on the skeleton with plastic corpsing as you do with the latex? Thank you for all your help and input! It’s very much appreciated!
Probably not since I got a more smooth, skin like look by using the latex and shop towels. Plastic corpsing always gets wrinkly and twisted like beef jerky. It depends on what look you are going for.
@@OakLaneCemetery would LOVE to see a detailed video of your corpsing technique as I believe your finished pieces are some of the best on the internet. You definitely crush it man 🤘💀
What size funkin did you use for the head?
Not sure. Way bigger than the round ones Michael's sells. I found it at Joanne's on clearance.
Simply awesome
Quick question regarding using cotton and latex corpsing method versus stretch wrap. Does the stretch wrap method look as good as the latex and cotton method?
As good, but different. If you are a detail oriented person who wants things to be "just so" then latex corpsing is for you. If you need to crank out a bunch of corpsed weatherproof objects without spending a fortune go with plastic.
Totally agree that this is faster and looks very much the same without the time spent on cotton balls. Thanks again, I did this method on a skeleton but never thought of it on a pumpkin.
Did you corpse real pumpkins? If so how long will they last?
No, they are just the foam pumpkins you see in all the stores around Halloween. Some I carved myself and some were already carved. I do however have 2 real uncarved mini pumpkins left over from Halloween on my front porch still. lol All this freezing weather this month will probably turn them to mush once they thaw.
Was the base enough to keep the entire prop upright? Or did you have to post it into the ground or use ropes to secure it down? Id like to tackle this project myself
The base is just decorative and gives no support at all. The post is supported by a piece of thick rebar I drove into a pilot hole in the bottom of the post. The rebar goes about a foot into the post and sticks out about 2 feet. The spot it goes in our display is normally occupied by a bird bath, which sets on a 15" x 15" concrete paver. The paver is settled into the ground pretty good so I used a masonry bit to drill a hole in the center, then drove a piece of conduit about 3ft into the ground. The rebar on the post fits snugly inside this conduit so all I have to do every year is move the birdbath, clear the hole of any debris, set the base in place, then drop the pole into the base so the rebar goes in the conduit. In the past when it was in another spot I just drove some conduit into the ground, then slipped the rebar in. Held ok, but was a lot more wiggly than it is with the concrete block to stabilize it.
Great, thanks for the reply. It was windy this year and the added info will help for sure. Thanks
Where it is now it has held up through several storms with 40mph+ wind gusts. If I do get worried about it all I have to do is lift it out of the ground and lay it down. Had to do that a few years ago when Hurricane Sandy blew through.
Yeah Sandy made a mess of things here as well. I have some ideas going. Thanks for the advice. Happy Haunting, and Happy Thanksgiving.
How does this hold up in the rain?
Been out in the weather for the entire month of october for two years now. Other than some minor damage to the elbows and wrists from repeated bending he looks just as good as when I first made him. Probably just a matter of time before time and the elements start to deteriorate the latex corpsing, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Oak Lane Cemetery that's awesome!
Is it ok that i build your pumpkin king
Sure is! I put these things out for fellow haunters to build for themselves. As long as nobody is doing any selling of my designs I have no issues. Holler if you have any questions on the build.
This is amazing!
Absolutely great videos. Glad that you are including your son, good father and son time.
Trying to talk him into narrating a tour of the haunt with me this year during set up. My other, oldest son is an actor in our haunt.
Freakin awesomeness
Outstanding!