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Featuring our
New & Improved Witch!
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For years I've
wanted a witch for the yard. Something creepy and animated.
I've been keeping my eyes open for a big cauldron and a witch mask,
but I couldn't find either one that worked for me. (Go ahead -
Try to find a good witch mask) Finally I
spotted a large cauldron, and bought a cheap mask, and went to work.
We made a junkie witch back in 2003, reluctantly used her again in
2004, and threw her away before Halloween 2005. (She is the green
one shown at the bottom of this page) She was crap. We kept
the cauldron with the motor-stirring-stick for a possible future
witch. In 2006 I spotted a $1.29 mask at Walmart, and knew she
would be perfect with a witches hat we already had in our mask-tub.
Our 2006 witch is sporting glowing red eyes, and custom sewn outfit
(Oh yes, Russ is quite the seamstress), and a disco-shiny black cape
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Like many of our
static props, the witch is built on a PVC sub-frame, with
chicken wire to fatten her up, and then landscape fabric for
clothing. The mask is glued to a standard styrofoam wig
head. The eyeballs are the cheap plastic ones from any
Halloween store. They have red LEDs back behind them to
give them the creepy glow. Just about all of our
prop-heads are cheap rubber masks glued with Elmers white glue
to a foam wig head.
Mask drying with PVC "neck" -->
(The screwdriver is holding the PVC at the angle we need while
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WARNING!
Our crappy first
generation witch appears below. (She has since been "retired")
Please forgive our lack of better ability back in the day.
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Andrew next to our new witch. She's lacking hands, a shawl,
and her stir stick.
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<--- Andrew again
with our lady. Luckily I was able to find a big cauldron.
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The
motor assembly for the stirring witch is located in the cauldron.
I used my traditional aluminum angle stock and Dayton gearmotor.
The whole unit is bolted to the cauldron and steel stock for
weight.
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Some
shots of the kids with our completed witch. Andrew, Courtney in
the dress, and Lily in white. |
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