short toepincher casket

A couple days ago I saw an "ible" about building a cover for a fog machine that looked like a casket and of course now I can't find it ! If it's your "ible" let me know so I can link you.   here it is ! http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Halloween-Casket-Fog-Machine-Cover/


That was the inspiration for the 1st open casket I built using foam board which I had recently rescued a large pile of from the trash. When my son in law saw it he suggested I make a couple for my daughters scare in this years haunt. After a little discussion we hit on a really gruesomely cool prop.

I'm not going to tell or show you here the final piece, you'll have to check out my Haunt "ible" after Halloween....

Step 1: Getting started

I started out with some large foam board sheets approximately 4'6x2'6 and cut out a couple of front and backs for a toe pincher coffin. I then cut a bunch of 4" wide strips. By the time I was done it was getting late so I went inside, when I came out the next day every thing had WARPED !  (I actually took ALL these pics after everything warped) I found a couple of heavy steel plates as weights and built around them

Comments

[tinker234]

wow amazing i have some marble spray paint i might use to make a textured stone look

[l8nite]

Hi Tinker, thank you for stopping in and leaving a comment, one of these would look great with a stone look. The ones I built here worked well for the 4 nights of our HAUNT but unfortunately they warped before I got them stored away. Although they'll still work as individual props in a dark corner somewhere, I'm planning on remaking them from thin plywood for this years Haunt

[tinker234]

maybe add fiber glass

[l8nite]

I think the material is just too flimsy, it's just foamcore board that I rescued from a dumpster. In my experience fiberglass is too expensive, too messy and takes too much sanding/cleanup for smaller projects like this, but then I don't work with it a lot. I can make more from a couple of interior doors and 1x6" for the sides in a couple of hours at most. If you check my 2011 haunt ible you can see the finished piece

[tinker234]

yeah i will take a look probably be easier to make one out of wood but foams the best thanks for helping me figure this out

[l8nite]

the foam board is very easy to work with and I probably could have prevented the warping of the edges by building them up but I don't sit and plan or research most projects, I just dive in and try to work around or solve any problems. This entire project including painting only took a couple of hours. If you look at the 2011 haunt page there's a black baby casket that took longer to paint than it did to make.

[scoochmaroo]

Sooo good.

[l8nite]

thank you scooch for the link and the comment.. Ive created a monster though, today my daughter had me build a 22" tall "baby" version 5" deep, oh well only took an hour start to final paint..

[scoochmaroo]

Ooh, here it is: http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Halloween-Casket-Fog-Machine-Cover/