The Mad Lab

Over the last couple of weeks there have been small articles in the local newspaper about some digging around the local cemetery. So tonight I decided to go hang out there and see who was helping themselves to my parts supply. It was a surprise when I caught this creature crawling around.

Along with the grave digging there have been a lot of disappearances lately, I wonder if there are more of these things lurking around town. If I find anymore I’ll be sure to post them here.

This creature started out with a pile of water bottles I want to do something with. I always wanted some quick creatures that I could scatter around my yard. Thus I decided to use them as the frame work for my grave digger. The body is made up of five water bottles, three on top two on the bottom laid out length wise then tapped together. To start with remove the label and cap from the water bottles.

Once the frame work of the body is done its time for the limbs. Each limb uses two water bottles, so you’ll need 8 of them for this part. 13 total hehe. The limbs cane be put together and lay angle you want for whatever posse you want to make as I’ll show later.

I put the paper clay one the limbs before I attach them to the body but I don’t think it really matters. Tape won’t stick to the clay well even once its dry so I used gorilla glue. It works wonders; they can hold their pose without breaking even when pressure is applied. The heads are just balls over paper covered with paper clay. Seams are covered with more paper clay to hide them.

So far only the grave digger is done but here are two others I’m working on. The first will be sitting on the roof with a fishing pole hanging near the path, a little candy on the end. The other will be by a bush with a dead trick or treater sticking out of it to make it look like he killed them for the candy.

I'll post pics of them when they are finished.

Just a side note on this guy. We're having a wind storm out here and he will roll/hop around in 40mph gusts. otherwise seems fine