Mache Skeleton
September 28th, 2009 by John Wolfe
I found a fantastic tutorial for creating a paper mache skeleton on Halloween Forum this morning. The photo definitely doesn’t do the prop justice, but it’s the only finished image I could find. The skeleton, built by forum member Unorthodox, is comprised primarily of cardboard (for the bones), conduit or a stick (for the spine), foam (for vertebrae), clay (for fingers and toes) and paper mache.
All joints are fully articulated in this skeleton through a combination of wire and swivels — pretty awesome to have a pose-able corpse made from mache. Usually, when I think of mache corpses, I think of static, stationary props.
Though we’re getting down to the wire and this is a pretty sizeable project, anyone looking for a do-it-yourself skeleton by Halloween could pull it off during the month of October. Naturally, you could just buy a plastic, blow mold “blucky” at the store, but where’s the fun in that. Not to mention, this prop looks a lot sweeter than those plastic skeletons.
To see more of Unorthodox’s cool creations, checkout his site: An Unorthodox Halloween.
