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VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
05-31-2009, 02:38 AM
Here are 2 of my newest ground breakers. Enjoy!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3580957644_41d2dd1a6d.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/3580958734_9bb5b5f542.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/3580150125_6c99b1e420.jpg
Devils Chariot
05-31-2009, 02:49 AM
ooo those are tasty looking!
CreepyCanmore
05-31-2009, 02:50 AM
Fantastic work. Paper mache I presume....

They'll look awesome in your graveyard.
spideranne
05-31-2009, 09:43 AM
Great paint job, and I love the teeth.
dave the dead
05-31-2009, 10:59 AM
very nicely crafted!
kprimm
05-31-2009, 11:04 AM
Great work, they look they are rising all right.
lowdwnrob
05-31-2009, 11:10 AM
Those look great.
GrimleeFeindish
05-31-2009, 12:01 PM
Very nice work, major kudos on the paint job. Did you use stain or paint? I like the poses too. And the teeth,,, wow, did you make those or are they a part of the skull?
Mr_Chicken
05-31-2009, 01:01 PM
Excellent! I particularly like the one with his pelvis showing.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
05-31-2009, 02:19 PM
Very nice work, major kudos on the paint job. Did you use stain or paint? I like the poses too. And the teeth,,, wow, did you make those or are they a part of the skull?

Thanks all for the kind comments. Grim I used a water based walnut stain. The teeth are made with white hot glue sticks. I tell you what, making a corpse anatomically correct with just newspaper and duct tape is a big pain in the butt.

Mr_Chicken Excellent! I particularly like the one with his pelvis showing.

I like the pelvis on that one too. Its actually my favorite part.
Otaku
05-31-2009, 02:56 PM
Excellent! Love the teeth - I also use hot glue for those. Did you use plastic skulls for the heads or mache pulls?
DeathTouch
05-31-2009, 03:25 PM
Man! Those are really good!
dubbax3
05-31-2009, 03:27 PM
WOW, well done. Big fan of the teeth as well. Any progress pics?
Sickie Ickie
05-31-2009, 05:11 PM
love how the skulls turned out!
hpropman
05-31-2009, 09:49 PM
Love them, I would hove never thought that those teeth were hot glue.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-01-2009, 01:50 AM
WOW, well done. Big fan of the teeth as well. Any progress pics?

I dont have any of those. But I do have one that i havent mached yet I can take pics of.
scourge999
06-01-2009, 02:11 AM
Wow, wow, wow. Those are sick! Amazing work.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-01-2009, 03:35 AM
Excellent! Love the teeth - I also use hot glue for those. Did you use plastic skulls for the heads or mache pulls?

They are the cheesey styrofoam ones.
Joiseygal
06-01-2009, 07:32 AM
Awesome Job! I love how the lip is split and some of the teeth are exposed on the side of his rotting flesh! Sweet!
ghost37
06-01-2009, 08:20 AM
Great detail! Awesome job.
Just Whisper
06-01-2009, 11:40 AM
What do you use for your rib forms?
Otaku
06-01-2009, 12:08 PM
They are the cheesey styrofoam ones.

I have a couple of those skulls - I know just what I'm gonna do with 'em. Again, great work!
Warrant2000
06-01-2009, 12:29 PM
Definately yummy!
Bone To Pick
06-01-2009, 01:21 PM
Great job, Voo Doo! Those'll look great outside day or night. I love the gnarly teeth, the skin-stretched-over-bone look, and the stain!
halloween71
06-01-2009, 02:41 PM
They look freshly dug up.Great work.
IMU
06-01-2009, 03:58 PM
They look awesome ... very creepy! :)
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-01-2009, 04:46 PM
What do you use for your rib forms?

I use rolled up newspaper. I will post pics of one I havent covers yet. I found that if you make the sternum actuall size, which in a human adult average length of sternum is 17 cm, you get a much better, more realistic ribcage. Like a dumby I never measure the length of the rins when I cut them to size, so I never know how long to mahe them for the next one. Rule of thumb for me is to keep the widest point of the rib cage no more that 14 inches wide. To me it looks more proportion.
jabberwocky
06-02-2009, 01:36 AM
These look great!!!!!!!!
I'd really appreciate a "how to" if your gonna do another.
Once again........ GREAT WORK!
smileyface4u23
06-02-2009, 07:45 AM
Wow - those are really impressive! Very nice work! :)
stick
06-02-2009, 02:12 PM
Love them, like all the rest have said great paint job.
The Bloodshed Brothers
06-02-2009, 02:14 PM
very sick
The Archivist
06-02-2009, 06:36 PM
Now that's gorgeous!! Light those up with some flickering candles and really make it look cool.
Phil
06-02-2009, 09:11 PM
They look perfect. Nice job with the photos as well.
GrimleeFeindish
06-02-2009, 10:34 PM
This sounds dumb, but how do you make the teeth? Do you just cut the hot glue and mold them? I assume that you use the hot glue at room temp and form the teeth like that right?
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-02-2009, 10:36 PM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3620/3590462887_c94a172fbd.jpg

Here it is before I mache it and cover it with liquid nails.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-02-2009, 10:37 PM
This sounds dumb, but how do you make the teeth? Do you just cut the hot glue and mold them? I assume that you use the hot glue at room temp and form the teeth like that right?

I have a silicone pad that I squirt the glue on too. You basically squirt it out to a bit of a tooth shape then trim to my liking.
JohnnyAppleseed
06-03-2009, 01:21 AM
Holy cow, these are very nicely crafted! Love to see a pic of the one that isn't mached yet! (then I look again and there it is!) Wanted to do something similar for the cemetary this year and was wondering how difficult it would be to construct from newspaper and duct tape vs. using a cheap blow mold skelly or one of the new barneys.

By the way, what are the hands constructed of?
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-03-2009, 12:44 PM
Holy cow, these are very nicely crafted! Love to see a pic of the one that isn't mached yet! (then I look again and there it is!) Wanted to do something similar for the cemetary this year and was wondering how difficult it would be to construct from newspaper and duct tape vs. using a cheap blow mold skelly or one of the new barneys.

By the way, what are the hands constructed of?


I am sure it would be easier to use a blow mold skeleton. But I am sure it is much cheaper to use newspaper. One thing I did forget to mention is that I used pvc pipe for the spine. I would heat it up with a heat gun to bend it. The hands are made with hot glue sticks. I use the small ones for thge bones and large ones for the knuckles. On my next one I will take play by play pics. For the most part I use the spookyblue method. http://spookyblue.com/halloween/groundbreaker/groundbreaker1.htm Only thing I really do different is that I do a final skinning with liquid nails.
RoxyBlue
06-03-2009, 01:44 PM
How did I miss this thread?!?! These guys are so well and realistically done. Beautiful work, VooDoo.
dubbax3
06-03-2009, 03:43 PM
Thanks for the skinless pics.
Devils Chariot
06-04-2009, 12:27 PM
Hey congrats, you made it on pumpkinrot's blog. (http://pumpkinrot.blogspot.com/2009/06/better-to-eat-you-with.html)
Silent Requiem
06-04-2009, 12:35 PM
very nice!^^
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-04-2009, 08:42 PM
Hey congrats, you made it on pumpkinrot's blog. (http://pumpkinrot.blogspot.com/2009/06/better-to-eat-you-with.html)

Werd! Its a compliment coming from him.
The Archivist
06-04-2009, 09:25 PM
Do you have a how-to on these beautiful works of art?
MorbidMariah
06-04-2009, 09:38 PM
WOW. These are just beautiful. There's not much I can say that hasn't been said already, but I just had to let you know you have one more admirer! :) I've GOT to try the glue hands and teeth...
HalloweenZombie
06-04-2009, 09:47 PM
Spectacular!
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-05-2009, 03:06 AM
Do you have a how-to on these beautiful works of art?

The method I use is the http://spookyblue.com/halloween/groundbreaker/groundbreaker1.htm method. The only thing I really do different is do a final skinning with liquid nails. Another thing that helps is to have pictures of skeletons for reference and measurements of the sternum. Average human adult sternum is 17 cm. It helps get everything in proportion.


Thanks all for the kind words.
Lauriebeast
06-05-2009, 09:38 AM
Wow, these guys are totally awesome! You did one helluva job on them...really great work.
beelce
06-05-2009, 10:12 AM
Excellent indeed!!! ....Love all the teeth, and the pulled back lips
GrimleeFeindish
06-05-2009, 04:47 PM
What do you do with the liquid nails?
DarkLore
06-05-2009, 07:13 PM
Very nice. Thanks for the extra pics. Great texture.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-06-2009, 12:36 AM
What do you do with the liquid nails?

I squirt it on the corpse and spread it all over.
Dr Morbius
06-06-2009, 03:58 AM
I squirt it on the corpse and spread it all over.
"...and with that, VDVSH was escorted by armed guard to the prison for the criminally insane."...lol!

Love the GBs! Awesomely terror-ific!
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-06-2009, 10:27 PM
Thanks all. Ok for those that want to see. Here is what it looks like after I apply the liquid nails and before stain. I didnt finish up the hands do to the fact that I ran out of liquid nails.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3402/3601675493_746c54ed64_o.jpg
DarkLore
06-07-2009, 01:12 AM
I've never heard of anyone covering with liquid nails. He's got a really great texture to him....kind of like a burn victim.

What exactly are those hands? They look like hot glue sticks with some kind of additional hot glue joints.
Devils Chariot
06-07-2009, 01:20 AM
well i have had a tube of liquid nails for two years, just waiting to get around tho one of these. Maybe it was on the haunt project list (that one with like 1500 projects)
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-07-2009, 02:44 AM
I've never heard of anyone covering with liquid nails. He's got a really great texture to him....kind of like a burn victim.

What exactly are those hands? They look like hot glue sticks with some kind of additional hot glue joints.

Thats exactly what they are.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-19-2009, 01:40 AM
ok the newest one is done.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3640729486_5bcbf8b085.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/3639918185_dde87cc347.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3640729102_cebcc0e41f.jpg
Devils Chariot
06-19-2009, 02:00 AM
I got to see this one in person, its better than pics can tell. SIMI!
fritz42_male
06-19-2009, 11:33 PM
monstercloset.com have a great dvd on corpse construction using these techniques and I can really recommend it. It's very professional and very amusing as well as being very instructive.
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
06-20-2009, 12:03 AM
On sale for 14.95. Great DVD. Another good one to get is from ghost ride productions.
Marrow
07-26-2011, 11:38 PM
Oh my god! I love all your incredible groundbreakers! The teeth on them are truly spectacular!

I've seen the spookyblue tutorial, so I understand the basics of hot glue teeth, but would you mind sharing with us how you make them look so real? I've never seen any like them before...
curley
07-27-2011, 12:29 AM
Paint looks awesome man!!
VooDoo Von Shrunkenhead
07-27-2011, 07:19 PM
Oh my god! I love all your incredible groundbreakers! The teeth on them are truly spectacular!

I've seen the spookyblue tutorial, so I understand the basics of hot glue teeth, but would you mind sharing with us how you make them look so real? I've never seen any like them before...

You need to get yourself some white glue stix. Squirt it out on a silicone pad into a basic tooth shape and trim from there.