2009 Halloween Egg - The Ninth Ring of Hell

Step 3 The Base

I started out by assembling the base. I first determined how many skulls would be required to support my egg. I did this by placing skulls in contact with each other in a circle until the egg was fully supported.

Once I knew how many skulls I needed, I had to clean them up before I glued them together. Molded plastic objects will have excess plastic ridges created by the junction of the halves of the molds. If they are hollow there will also be a small hole where air was injected to force the plastic to coat the mold. Both of these phenomena will have to be dealt with to make the base look cooler.

To remove the ridges use a utility knife to cut off the extra plastic.

Then use epoxy putty to fill the holes. This part make be tricky. Given the hollow nature of the skulls the putty may fall down into the skull instead of sticking to the edges of the hole. I just had to keep trying and eventually it stayed put. Allow the putty to harden and then sand it down. The filled hole may still be a little lower than the surrounding material. Simply repeat the fillling and sanding process until the material is level.

Once that is done arrange the skulls in the same circle as before. Make note of the points of contact. Place a dab of E-6000 at each point of contact and push the skulls together. You will want to do this in stages, as trying to glue all the joins at once would be difficult.