How-To: Replica Evil Dead 2 chainsaw arm
Nick Valenza shows how he builds realistic replicas of Ash’s “groovy” prosthesis using parts from real chainsaws.
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Zombie crossing road sign
The sign build is by Hector Turner, the original zombie family art by LiveJournaler Image Girl. [via Haunt Project]
How To: Fake Fire Baskets
Construct these awesome simulated fire baskets from mostly dollar-store parts.
How-To: Compressed air system for haunt props
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
Incredibly creepy photoreactive animatronic, um, thing
and has seven servos and several vacuum-formed pops. The rest is “plywood, paper clips, and popsicle sticks.” [Thanks, Matt!]
Great online haunt resource
If you’re still looking for ideas for this (or next) year’s Halloween display, check out HauntProject.com. They’ve done a great job of assembling cool Halloween projects from all over the web and have nearly 1,000 indexed and categorized as of this writing. Shown here are three of my faves so far. Above, a sweet crashed flying saucer prop by Scott Rossi. Below, a motorized monster-in-a-box by Bob and Cindy Stewart.
How-To: Papier-mâché gargoyle
Or is it “carton-pierre?” Anyway, it wins. “Ghostess” Deanna did a great job documenting the process of building “Goliath,” who is based on the eponymous character from Disney’s Gargoyles cartoon. Hard to believe he started out as glue, craft paper, and PVC pipe.
