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A friend of mine sent me two cheap plastic skeletons for Halloween. They aren't
the most realistic looking skeletons. As a matter of fact they look kind of
silly and wouldn't scare a two year old. So I started looking around on the net
for a way to make them look better. The first site I found involved corpsing
with latex and pantyhose, but that seemed a bit extreme so I continued to
search. Then I ran across
Ray A. Rottin's
site. He had instructions for painting plastic skeletons to make them look
better. His instructions called for outlining the crevices with black acrylic
paint and then 'washing' the skeleton with brown and gray acrylic paints.
I didn't have any problems outlining the crevices of the skeleton with black
paint but I did have a problem with the 'washing' part. So I called in
reinforcements. My friend Izumi was visiting so I asked for her help. She
seemed to have the 'gift' for 'washing'. What she did was mix the color that
she wanted and then thinned it out with a lot of water. Next she used gauze to
rub it on the skeleton until she got the effect she was looking for. She also
discovered that it was much easier too outline the crevices with a fine point
permanent black marker. That's Izumi in the pictures 'washing' the skeleton.
First she used brown and then later she went back over it with gray to
highlight the areas outlined in black. As you can tell from the top picture,
her efforts really made a difference in how the skeleton looked. We used the
skeleton in a scrim box in our tunnel. When people walked by, a light came on
and he welcomed them.
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