giant spiders & noodles

[waldiddy]

Just had a thought about making a giant paper mache spider & using those foam swimming noodles for the legs. I wonder if that would work ... guess you'd need a massive spider for the body to be proportioned correctly next to the legs.

[sharpobject]

That's going to be one gynormous spider !! Maybe you can use one of those huge exercise balls (with a little air out of it) for the body.

[Monk]

yeah, it would be pretty darn big.

[The_Caretaker]

here is some help in the form of a spider calculator: http://zombietronix.com/calculator_spider1.php

[Bone Dancer]

I have seen plastic play balls at Kmart and Walmart that were fairly cheap and large.

[waldiddy]

That link is really cool!

[spideranne]

I made one with pool noodles and a chicken wire body and then covered it in monster mud. I wouldn't recommend the monster mud on the pool noodles, it doesn't stick real well and has cracked quite a bit, paper mache might be the better way to go. You'll also want to make some joints in the legs, the pool noodles won't stay bent in place. I tried PVC and that worked pretty good. I wish I had used that calculator thought, I was just winging it.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k136/spideranne/2007%20Halloween/Monster%20Mud%20Spider/MMSpider004.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k136/spideranne/2007%20Halloween/Monster%20Mud%20Spider/Spider010.jpg