and didn't want to spend any money,
so I went out to my workshop to see what i could find.
I came across this.
since I had 2 already I decided to use this.
Now what to make. I looked around and found
some PVC and a few other items......
I can build a spider!!
So off I went. I started by trimming this down a bit,
removed bottom layer and sanded it smooth.
I then gave it a good coat of monster mud.
let that dry, sanded that,
then Gave it 2 coats of black paint
with a sanding between coats.
I started out with a block of foam I had,
but after shaping it I didn't like it.
So I tossed it and started hunting for
something else and I came across this.
A very sad looking foam pumpkin I salvaged.
I was going to clean it up and repaint it but
hey it'll still look great as a spiders head! LOL
I peeled off the orange skin,
then trimmed off all but 2 of the ridges/bumps.
Then gave it a good sanding and
repeated the steps I did to the body.
I needed to cut it up into sections
so I could have an even 8 legs
I used 3/4" and 1/2" pvc.
I took 4 pieces( 3/4"), drilled 2 holes in each ran
a section of dowel through, then glued it all together.
I first of course grabbed my heat gun and bent
the ends of each section up in to the desired direction.
The little gray pieces are to help
me attach the 3/4" sections together.
The tips of the 1/2" sections have been ground
down a little to insert into the ends of the 3/4" sections.
Any point where 3/4" meets 1/2" I sanded
down so there was no odd looking connections.
those disposable foam paint brushes.
I heated up the ends of the pvc put in dowel,
squeezed the pvc together,
when it cooled I glued dowel in place and ground down
the tip and smoothed out the pvc to match.
the head and have started bending
the next joint in the legs.
Also test fitting the body.
and testing the fit of the body again.
To get her to stand off the ground,
I put her on a bucket to make the last joint.
heating each section until it slowly fell to the floor.
As you can see from the burn
marks it took a bit of coaxing! LOL
I took a piece of foam and sanded it round,
I had some teeth from a necklace
and inserted one into each tip.
Then painted them black.
I ran a piece of wire into the back of the pincher
then drill a hole in each of the dowels in
the frame inserted wire and glued it there.
of copper colored ornaments
which I cut the eyes out of trimmed
them a little then glued onto face.
For the mouth I took 2 sets
of those plastic vampire teeth,
cut them into sections and glued
them together then glued to face.
Painted the inside red adding
a splash of purple mixed in.
hotglue and gorilla glue.
After painting everything black,
I painted the joints purple.
The design on her body I have sorta looks like flames
running down the middle and
then spots on the rest of her body.
Although you can't really tell from the pics,
I toned down the spots with a dusting of black paint,
then I dusted her with a very light coat of purple.
To me it looks kinda cool she has
a light purple hew during the day,
then at night almost totally black.
From tip to tip she is 5ft wide
and her height is 22 inches.
