Right. The cost of the armature, chicken wire, burlap and anything else you incorporate into the prop is included in the cost, but not the cost of the mud mixture itself.
Well, if you want to incorporate something electronic in it feel free... add a lantern, crystal ball, or something else. That stuff can increase cost too. Be creative with your creation. It doesn't need to be made strictly out of monster mud and may incorporate other items like foggers, lights, etc... However, the main prop itself must be made from monster mud. You can't make a non-monster mud prop and add some teeny, tiny monster mud creation to it.
I updated the first post with a recipe for the mud as well as an example project Ghostess built a few years ago.
Lots of examples out there, for example http://www.hauntproject.com/projdetail.asp?category=Monster%20Mud
This is what is known as "pro-rating" an item and is covered in the rules. Basically, expendable items are only billed to your prop based on how much you use. Say you buy a gallon of paint for $15, but you only use half the can. Then you only charge $7.50 to your prop's total cost.
Dang it, joined too late.
Hope you enter perfessor! Just think, you should get some new how-tos from this.Dang it, joined too late.
Just as well... I need to be working on the other props I have going.
Oops! I forgot to update that number... it should read between July 15th, 2007 and September 30th, 2007.
