Halloween Thread

[Behr]

I've already loaded on candy corn for the season

Bless your heart.

 

[VolInNorthCack]

I've already loaded on candy corn for the season

 

[theFallGuy]

 

[GordonC]

Candy corn sucks

 

[Behr]

Pert near as bad as them gaters. Pert near.

 

[malinoisvol]

The only thang better than candy corn is them circus peanuts.

 

[82_VOL_83]

The only thang better than candy corn is them circus peanuts.

 

[the_todd]

@larjoranj

Looking to change up my decorations this year. I usually do a whole graveyard seen, but i think we wanna do a camping theme. Any ideas on how to do a firepit with a fake flame/fire ?

 

[larjoranj]

@larjoranj

Looking to change up my decorations this year. I usually do a whole graveyard seen, but i think we wanna do a camping theme. Any ideas on how to do a firepit with a fake flame/fire ?

There are some good vids on youtube for making glowing coals/ fake fires at Halloween. Use a stiff cardboard or some very thin plywood, like vinyl floor underlayment, as a base. Lay some red and/or orange Christmas light strings on the base. Cover the lights with expanding foam (Great Stuff or Loc Tite) but don't completely cover them. Leave open spaces so the light can shine through later. After the foam has dried you can put another layer of lights then another layer of foam. Once it's all dry you'll want to paint the foam with black, red and some gray to get the color of embers and coals. At night the lights will shine through the gaps and look like a smoldering fire. Pick light strings that have different modes, like twinkling or flashing, to look more like a fire. There are many of those on Amazon cheap. Different vids show different ideas. One guy puts actual sticks in the foam before it dries to look more like a fire. Another guy puts some cheap vinyl or styrofoam bones and skulls in the foam to creepy it up a little and look like a body burned in the fire.

Search for DIY Halloween Fire Pit on youtube and you'll get plenty of good vids with detailed instructions.

Making a fake fire with larger flames is more difficult. I've seen a couple vids on youtube where they used sheets with orange and red lights behind them and a fan below to blow the sheets up. Those are usually done in the window of a house and look real. They look like that room is on fire. Gonna be harder to make fake flames from up very close. Look at a few of those fire pit vids and see if that might work for you. Good luck

 

[Behr]

Bale of hay.
5 gallons of gasoline.
Match.


Won't be fake, but it'll work.

 

[the_todd]

There are some good vids on youtube for making glowing coals/ fake fires at Halloween. Use a stiff cardboard or some very thin plywood, like vinyl floor underlayment, as a base. Lay some red and/or orange Christmas light strings on the base. Cover the lights with expanding foam (Great Stuff or Loc Tite) but don't completely cover them. Leave open spaces so the light can shine through later. After the foam has dried you can put another layer of lights then another layer of foam. Once it's all dry you'll want to paint the foam with black, red and some gray to get the color of embers and coals. At night the lights will shine through the gaps and look like a smoldering fire. Pick light strings that have different modes, like twinkling or flashing, to look more like a fire. There are many of those on Amazon cheap. Different vids show different ideas. One guy puts actual sticks in the foam before it dries to look more like a fire. Another guy puts some cheap vinyl or styrofoam bones and skulls in the foam to creepy it up a little and look like a body burned in the fire.

Search for DIY Halloween Fire Pit on youtube and you'll get plenty of good vids with detailed instructions.

Making a fake fire with larger flames is more difficult. I've seen a couple vids on youtube where they used sheets with orange and red lights behind them and a fan below to blow the sheets up. Those are usually done in the window of a house and look real. They look like that room is on fire. Gonna be harder to make fake flames from up very close. Look at a few of those fire pit vids and see if that might work for you. Good luck

Thank you!

 

[larjoranj]

I'm working on my new zombie. My kids got me this mask with a baseball embedded in the skull so I'm making him a baseball player.



The mask has 1 normal eye and 1 socket where the eyeball is gone. I'm adding a bloody eyeball sticking out of that socket. I think it looks creepier. The pants are old. The jersey I had made on Amazon. I normally get the clothes at a local thrift store for a couple bucks but I splurged. I think the jersey is cool.



I'll add arms and get some pics up soon. I've got a Lucille bat from the Walking Dead I'll have him holding in 1 hand. I may leave him armless on 1 side. Or maybe have a skeleton arm on 1 side. Of course there will be lots of blood splatters before I display him in the yard.

 

[larjoranj]

I put the arms on today. He's holding the "Lucille" bat that Negan used in Walking Dead, with the barbed wire wrapped around the end. I took an arm from a plastic skeleton and used it for his left arm. Maybe the flesh has mostly rotted off that arm. I might "corpse" that arm later by adding a little more rotten flesh. I didn't use real cleats so I'll probably paint the adidas logo on these shoes. No kids will notice but I'll like it better. I'll scuff up the uniform. Add some dirt and blood stains.

 

[Tin Man]

In the early 80s, I lived in a neighborhood that induced me to hand out little bags of peanuts and little boxes of raisins.

 

[GordonC]

In the early 80s, I lived in a neighborhood that induced me to hand out little bags of peanuts and little boxes of raisins.

dey musta had a problem with barred owls in that neighborhood....peanuts and raisins kill the little fookers graveyard dead
peanuts and raisins also will kill pussums
you got fooled....again

 

[the_todd]

@larjoranj - as i stated in an earlier post, im changing my decorations up this year. I have a posable skeleton that i want to stand by a grill to look like he’s cooking. Any suggestions on how to keep him standing up/posed?

 

[theFallGuy]

In the early 80s, I lived in a neighborhood that induced me to hand out little bags of peanuts and little boxes of raisins.