This weekend was kinda stop and start, hit and miss. The forecast was for temps nearing 100F, but it turned out to be about 88F with nice breezes. This had kept enthusiasm down for working in the garage. People also had to work over the weekend. I also forgot to bring a lot of stuff and had to go to the hardware store. Twice.
On Sunday Zac, Tricia, and I got out to the garage and worked on a few things. We started making new LED spots based on Haunt the Yards’s how-to but scaled them up using thin walled 1″ pvc pipes and angles. This allows us to store the battery inside of the spot instead of having one loose outside of the spot, where it could easily get wet, dirty, or kicked. Tricia learned how to solder this weekend (she says it just like welding but way less dangerous) and really got into wiring up the spotlights. Zac worked on some clown corpse heads to go in his game booth that he built last week. I cast some jaws from my new jaw mold to go on Zac’s clown head craniums. The detail is very good, but the user freindly-ness could be better. The mold’s design was adapted from a design meant to do solid resin casts of a jaw, and not the rather brittle and lightweight foam castings. With care it makes very nice, very affordable jaw bones.
Looking good. Glad to see the new site up and runinning. Looks like you guys are moving along rather nicely. Looking forward to your creations!
BTW – we use a heavier 15# expanding foam for the jaw and deliecate accents molds (breaks less) and the standard 8# for the skulls – I think you can order sample kits from Smooth On if you want to give it a try.
Cheers!