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Halloween Haunt Cam Schedule

October 23rd, 2010 by John Wolfe

Just a quick update about the Halloween Webcam setup. Since I’m now working on the Angel of Death’s wings and cloak, I’ve stopped showing the feed from the workshop. However, two webcams will definitely be broadcasting from the haunt on Halloween night. Both cams will be running by 5:30 pm (mountain time), and depending on how quickly the haunt setup goes, I may try turning the cemetery cam on even earlier in the afternoon to broadcast some Halloween music while we’re setting up.

Either the chat moderator, SOS~LvR or I will be sure to provide Halloween day updates in the chat box regarding the cam’s start time. So, if you plan on being home on Halloween night, please stop by for a chat and some live Halloween video from the Season of Shadows yard haunt. Or, if your mobile device has the capability of displaying the feed’s embedded players, consider taking us with you wherever you go on Halloween.

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The Halloween Arms Race

October 8th, 2010 by John Wolfe

I built and attached both arms to the Angel of Death in the last two nights. I was a little concerned about adding arms because this part of the project was another one of those unknowns. I’ve never actually built arms that are somewhat outstretched on a very large prop before. I’ve built lightweight newspaper and paper mache arms, reaching out on my small groundbreakers but never anything of this size. It’s always a concern because there’s so much weight for the hardware to support, but thankfully everything’s doing great and staying in place.

I used dowels for the upper and lower arms, then I attached bucky skeleton hands and wrists, after doing some modifications to their radius and ulna bones. The hands and wrists will be mached and the entire arm structure will be padded (to break up the straight lines of the dowels) prior to attaching the cloak or shroud.

For a while now, I’ve been toying with building an entire, upright zombie corpse that appears to be walking through the cemetery of my haunt. This experience of working on the Angel of Death has given me some additional ideas for pulling that off next year. I’ve already got a name in mind for the prop, too: “Skinwalker.”

In many Native American traditions and tales, a skinwalker is typically a person or entity who shapeshifts into an animal or creature, but I thought it sounded cool. And since this will be my first rotten-skin, walking zombie, I thought the name was fitting.

So, I guess my 2011 prep will be The Year of the Skinwalker.

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