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More or less this section is just some unstructured thoughts, ideas or plans of upcoming Halloween projects. Anything that involves an actual project build will include a link to the project section for complete build details.

Published Date Published on Dec 12, 2012
Written by Dave
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Pirates of North Court could make a return!

Starting to get some ideas together for new props and seriously considering putting out our display for 2013. The shipwreck we used the last 3 years has been "retired" so a new and improved one would have to be constructed.

I won't promise any detailed how-to's for these new projects but I'm thinking it may be time for more videos on the builds. There are a ton of great home haunters on YouTube that vlog a great deal of there props, projects and experiences being a home haunter. I have a channel (click here) that I upload my videos to but I also put them here as well. You are welcome to subscribe to my channel but don't expect regular updates or any "amazing" prop builds, just typical halloween stuff but with my own flair.

That is it for this update, stay tuned to see what's up next!

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Published Date Published on Jun 06, 2012
Written by Dave
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A Posable Skeleton?

One of my ideas is to corpse my plastic skeletons with plastic using Allen's method:

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Published Date Published on Jun 06, 2012
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Groundbreaker

A friend of mine was kind enough to offer to make a leather dog collar for our dog Rio. Since this was a "practice" piece, she didn't want to charge us for it. I suggested a trade, a hand-made prop for the collar. I was told I couldn't spend more than $15 in materials for it since that was what her expense would be.

I used a few pieces from a bag of styrofoam bones, some scraps of PVC pipe, trash bags, cheese cloth and some white glue. I had to buy a fitting piece for my PVC pipe and a little bit of glue. I think it was about $1.50 - $1.75 out of pocket.

Since it was a surprise, I didn't really take pictures of it but here is a video of it done in my backyard. I added the snake in since she really doesn't like snakes! It took about 2 1/2 days of actual work but spread out over about a week.

Note: no sounds or movements are part of the prop, its just for the video.

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