Skywalkers- Halloween 2008

Post by **HenryJ** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:21 pm

Marshalltown Skywalkers.
Good tools are great. I just bought a pair of these.

So far they are more comfortable than others I have tried. These should be lots of fun.

T Man · Post by **T Man** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:45 pm

*Heavy breathing* HJ, HJ I am your father

04crewvt · Post by **04crewvt** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:33 am

Looks like you have a good start to a Transformers costume for Halloween

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:06 am

They're pretty cool. If, I remember correctly you have some fairly high ceilings in your home. What are you working on now, Brule.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:57 am

The incentive for these comes from the fund raiser we are holding in a few weeks.
The Fire department is haunting a corn maze. I have a couple home built sets that I have used in the past. Using them for a week was the push I needed to get a nice set.
I dabble in special effects make-up, in all that extra time I have. I also collect and build masks. Tom Savini is my favorite artist.
Everyone has seen his work, a few recognize him.

I am coordinating props for the maze. I will also don a grim reaper with glowing eyes costume for the event.

I have to get the "bloody" chainsaw working this weekend and I think things will all be ready to set up.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:52 am

Very cool

Post by **HenryJ** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:56 pm

Halloween is near. What are you going to be?
I will be a 8 foot tall Grim Reaper this year. We start haunting the Corn Maze tomorrow night. The operation room is in place, Leather Faces Lair is ready to go and half a dozen costumes are ready.
The vibrating floor works great and we test the projector in the morning.
It should be a good time. Last minute details are to be set up in the morning, and show time at 6:30 pm.

This is a good time of year for me. My car was built 10-31-1951. The production date is in the left door. You can see the paint bubbled up with that date. Fifteen years ago this Halloween , I played the groom and my best girl played the bride.

04crewvt · Post by **04crewvt** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:06 pm

Going to go to a party this weekend as Shrek if I can get things pulled together (not much of a stretch) but hey I'm still recovering from knee surgery and I can do makeup better then odd props.

Post by **HenryJ** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:14 pm

You know we will need pictures, right? My son has the donkey in his room. I can just imagine that under your arm

GeorgesBlazah · Post by **GeorgesBlazah** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:16 am

Nice! I think those would be alot more fun with a big spring on the bottom of them. lol

04crewvt · Post by **04crewvt** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:30 am

Great party last night.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:10 am

I don't have exact numbers yet for the last two days. Probably only 200 or so through.

Corn Maze Album
Here I am getting ready-

and on my "feet"-

The photographer didn't notice my cloak was over my toes

Paul aka "Michael Meyers"-

Dusty aka "the doctor"-

Laurie , my wife, "the assistant"-

Merri aka "the patient"-

Last night we had three groups that chickened out at the first room. Leather face with the chainsaw. One puked and several left crying. I guess we are doing a good job.
Rave reviews thus far. We run through Wednesday, Halloween.

BADs Crew · Post by **BADs Crew** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:58 am

Thats a great mask for Grim and one heck of a large corn maze. How late does the maze stay open? I bet the kids freaked running into grim after dark.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:14 am

Okay, why can't I see the pictures?

04crewvt · Post by **04crewvt** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:40 am

Age?

Oh wait I can't see them either, I had to right click on them and open them to see them.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:35 am

BADs Crew wrote:Thats a great mask for Grim and one heck of a large corn maze. How late does the maze stay open? I bet the kids freaked running into grim after dark.

We start at dark and run to 11:00pm on Friday and Saturday. Monday and Tuesday will probably only go till 10:00. No school Thursday, so we will probably go late Wednesday, Halloween.

The pictures are on Googles Picasaweb. This is the first I have tried linking. I can see them ok. Not sure why you are having troubles. Maybe you need to be logged in to Google?

BADs Crew · Post by **BADs Crew** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:53 am

I didn't see them on the first try. Webshots does the same thing.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:10 pm

Well, I can now see 2 that I had to right click and select "view image". All of my linked photos will be gone shortly when Sony's imagestation closes down. Really ticks me off. Mine was free but, they had premium subscriptions and I would be really pis_ed if, I had paid for something and had it notify me that it was ending!

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:17 pm

Google is nice for albums.

Steve2003 · Post by **Steve2003** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:22 pm

HenryJ wrote:Marshalltown Skywalkers.
Good tools are great. I just bought a pair of these.

So far they are more comfortable than others I have tried. These should be lots of fun.

Back in the 70's when I was a kid my Dad worked in construction building track houses. I would go to work with him in the summer and got paid $5 a house to sweep out the saw dust and small lumber after the framers were done, before the drywallers came in. I would do 1 to 2 houses a day. It was good money for a 10 year old kid.

I remember one track where all the houses were two stories and had a lot of cathedral ceilings. I saw this guy that was taping after the drywallers and he was wearing these type of stilts, I was in awe and watched him work all day. My Dad later told me that the guy was from Idaho and those stilts were illegal in California per OSHA regulations. I worked in construction until I was 23 and never saw another guy use the stilts.

Sure does bring back some good memories seeing these again. I used to have a lot of fun earnings some extra bucks working with my Dad in the summer. I always had pocket change during the school year and was able to buy things like new bikes and later on in my teens, dirt bikes. I would never have thought someone would use these for a Halloween costume.

I bet you scared the heck out of a lot of kids HJ sounds like you have some fun stuff going on up there in Ontario Oregon.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:29 pm

04crewvt wrote:Great party last night.

I am not surprised. What is that on top of the fridge? A portion of your antique electronics collection?

04crewvt · Post by **04crewvt** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:05 am

That's at my buddy's house. I will have to see if anyone got a shot of me in his living room (full bar including wet sink and appropriate furnishings). Does give some perspective though, those are normal interior doors and a normal size fridge.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:47 pm

Last year I invested in the stilts, this year I am adding to my mask collection. Almost 80 hours of overtime for the fire department last month means some extra mad money.

The corn maze looks good this year. We have our own. Crossed axes and set up for different stages. The reaper walks again!

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:16 pm

I am looking forward to it.

I hope you can get some vids posted this year. I don't know a thing about posting vids, other than it took 4 hrs to upload a 20 second vid of the parrot being obnoxious on google last year.