abner135
04-11-2010, 09:14 PM
Broken Tombstone
Item
Wood 1x4x36 scrape $0.04 per foot 0.50 Scrape
Plywood: ½ $0.20 per square foot 0.50 Scrape
1" thick insulation foam $3.97 2X4 sheet X 1 $1.97 Home Deport
Drywall Screws 1 $2.97 Lb. 0.10 on hand
Motor $2.99 $2.99 Surplus Center
9VDC 1A walwart used $5. All Electronics Store 1.50 Use at Bargain Center
Nut & bolts 10 24 / 1 .97 for 7 0.26 Wal-Mart
Glue .1.00 0.10 1.00 dollar store
Skel head 1.00-dollar store 1.00 1.00-dollar store
Hands (Latex gloves) 10 for 1.00 $0.10 0.10 1.00 dollar store
Light clip Bargain store 1.00 1.00 dollar store
Newspaper Free
Wire (coat hanger) 10 for 1.00 .10 1.00 dollar store
Hinged .95 Wall-Mat .97 Wal-Mart
Cams Scrape metal 1.00 On hand
Shirt Factory to you 2.00 2.00
Spay paint White 1.00 0.25 Wal-Mart
PVC ½ 6 99 for 10 0.05 Home Deport
Tape 1.00 0.05 1.00 dollar store
Bread bag Free
Water Free
Dirt Free
Total $14.44
From the 1x4x36 cut two by 7 Ύ inches, Screw the two pieces of the together and
Cut then at an angle from 4 to 2, Cut a piece 9 by 2and 9 x 4
Cut a piece 1 by ½ by 4
From a piece of scrape plywood cut an 8 by 8
Now assemble box with the pieces your have cut
Cut two pieces of metal ½ X 1 & Ύ for motor cam and one by 3 for the connecting rod
Place motor on side of box and secure it with three screws. Screw the metal ½ X 1 X Ύ cam to motor. Attached the 3 connecting rod to the end for cam (adjust motor so that the cam dose not hit bottom or side)
Place plywood on top of table, then place box on top, square the box and mark center.
Then screw your 1 by 1 hinge to plywood. Get your 1by ½ by 4 piece of wood and alien with the motor follower and secured in place Move cam and connecting rod and find best movement and attached connecting rod to 1 by ½ by 4 pieces.
Get your 1" thick insulation foam and make your tombstone. Paint and attached to of plywood.
Then cut the shape you want to make it looked like the tombstone cracked and fell.
Make body from 3 bread bags and shape to make chest and arm, cut hole for PVC pipe for head
Use your 1" thick insulation foam make hands and cut finger off and rolled then in newspaper and cut V at joints and placed in latex gloves and put a wire in each finger, (For molding hand to tombstone).
Place body form in a shirt (for shirt I wetted the shirt and buried in a clay soil) and attach hands and head, Placed a light inside of head and run your prop and adjust to your liking.
Item
Wood 1x4x36 scrape $0.04 per foot 0.50 Scrape
Plywood: ½ $0.20 per square foot 0.50 Scrape
1" thick insulation foam $3.97 2X4 sheet X 1 $1.97 Home Deport
Drywall Screws 1 $2.97 Lb. 0.10 on hand
Motor $2.99 $2.99 Surplus Center
9VDC 1A walwart used $5. All Electronics Store 1.50 Use at Bargain Center
Nut & bolts 10 24 / 1 .97 for 7 0.26 Wal-Mart
Glue .1.00 0.10 1.00 dollar store
Skel head 1.00-dollar store 1.00 1.00-dollar store
Hands (Latex gloves) 10 for 1.00 $0.10 0.10 1.00 dollar store
Light clip Bargain store 1.00 1.00 dollar store
Newspaper Free
Wire (coat hanger) 10 for 1.00 .10 1.00 dollar store
Hinged .95 Wall-Mat .97 Wal-Mart
Cams Scrape metal 1.00 On hand
Shirt Factory to you 2.00 2.00
Spay paint White 1.00 0.25 Wal-Mart
PVC ½ 6 99 for 10 0.05 Home Deport
Tape 1.00 0.05 1.00 dollar store
Bread bag Free
Water Free
Dirt Free
Total $14.44
From the 1x4x36 cut two by 7 Ύ inches, Screw the two pieces of the together and
Cut then at an angle from 4 to 2, Cut a piece 9 by 2and 9 x 4
Cut a piece 1 by ½ by 4
From a piece of scrape plywood cut an 8 by 8
Now assemble box with the pieces your have cut
Cut two pieces of metal ½ X 1 & Ύ for motor cam and one by 3 for the connecting rod
Place motor on side of box and secure it with three screws. Screw the metal ½ X 1 X Ύ cam to motor. Attached the 3 connecting rod to the end for cam (adjust motor so that the cam dose not hit bottom or side)
Place plywood on top of table, then place box on top, square the box and mark center.
Then screw your 1 by 1 hinge to plywood. Get your 1by ½ by 4 piece of wood and alien with the motor follower and secured in place Move cam and connecting rod and find best movement and attached connecting rod to 1 by ½ by 4 pieces.
Get your 1" thick insulation foam and make your tombstone. Paint and attached to of plywood.
Then cut the shape you want to make it looked like the tombstone cracked and fell.
Make body from 3 bread bags and shape to make chest and arm, cut hole for PVC pipe for head
Use your 1" thick insulation foam make hands and cut finger off and rolled then in newspaper and cut V at joints and placed in latex gloves and put a wire in each finger, (For molding hand to tombstone).
Place body form in a shirt (for shirt I wetted the shirt and buried in a clay soil) and attach hands and head, Placed a light inside of head and run your prop and adjust to your liking.