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Step 4Misc Movments, lights
I was able to recycle the dual mechanism I'd made for a previous cake to use on the moving tombstone and skeletal arm coming out of the ground. Just a little adjustment and voila! Only bad thing is the day before we added the fondant to the floor and the runny sugar ran down into the shaft that was pushing the tombstone stopping it. If you ever need to cement anything, use some raw glucose, holy cow. Took about a half hour to clean that all up and get it running again. Whew, I thought it was a gonner at first. The motors strip out so easy.
The coffin was really easy. Just a 30 rpm motor with an arm on it, added the shaft and add the skeleton arm. Took longer to make/size/cut/clue a pattern for the coffin. I refused to buy one even though you can easily find miniature coffins around. Had to add a quarter to the underside of the lid to keep it pull down to the hand. More fun to make than buy.
The bats and ghosts are just hooked straight to shafts hooked to motors. These were taken from kids Halloween rings. Very easy. It was more difficult to run the shaft up the tree but we got it no problem. Lili molded the witch flying around the middle house. Turned out really cute I thought. Again, hooked directly to a motor below the cake. The tree was originally going to be a Lemax spooky tree but it wasnt nearly big enough for what we wanted so we molded our own using Sculpy. Just wish I had thought of that ahead of time and added some glowing eyes. I did not have any tiny LEDs around the night we made that decision. Yep, I need to stock up on more junk, just in case.
Franky, Drac and the Mummy were picked up as a set at the dollar store, score!
Franky and Dracula move from a piece of wood moving back and forth below the haunted house. The door opens via string attached as well, closes due to and elastic strap behind the hinge. This was one of the worst ideas on the cake. There were better ways to do this but I wanted to try an easier way which turned out much less effective (and locked up halfway through the party). I even had some nice rollers I could have used but did not even use those. Never again I say!
We added the Mummy to a separate room using only an adjustable LED strobe kit. We used the coffin template from the graveyard for this coffin as well. Easy as can be.
The coffin was really easy. Just a 30 rpm motor with an arm on it, added the shaft and add the skeleton arm. Took longer to make/size/cut/clue a pattern for the coffin. I refused to buy one even though you can easily find miniature coffins around. Had to add a quarter to the underside of the lid to keep it pull down to the hand. More fun to make than buy.
The bats and ghosts are just hooked straight to shafts hooked to motors. These were taken from kids Halloween rings. Very easy. It was more difficult to run the shaft up the tree but we got it no problem. Lili molded the witch flying around the middle house. Turned out really cute I thought. Again, hooked directly to a motor below the cake. The tree was originally going to be a Lemax spooky tree but it wasnt nearly big enough for what we wanted so we molded our own using Sculpy. Just wish I had thought of that ahead of time and added some glowing eyes. I did not have any tiny LEDs around the night we made that decision. Yep, I need to stock up on more junk, just in case.
Franky, Drac and the Mummy were picked up as a set at the dollar store, score!
Franky and Dracula move from a piece of wood moving back and forth below the haunted house. The door opens via string attached as well, closes due to and elastic strap behind the hinge. This was one of the worst ideas on the cake. There were better ways to do this but I wanted to try an easier way which turned out much less effective (and locked up halfway through the party). I even had some nice rollers I could have used but did not even use those. Never again I say!
We added the Mummy to a separate room using only an adjustable LED strobe kit. We used the coffin template from the graveyard for this coffin as well. Easy as can be.
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