Category: Recondite

Trevor the Transi.

We’ve begun work on our transi.

Kyle decided he liked the alliteration of “Trevor” for him.

As with many of our projects, the basis begins with a Bob. However, we’ve made a few minor updates to the process.

Most notably, moving to easier to work with wire, cardboard, and a switch to plaster wrap instead of paper mache, as it is cheap, easy, and dries much quicker, thus allowing more work in a smaller window.

Some spray foam to give it support.

Yes, there are fewer ribs than normal, specifically because I wanted more space to define them when we moved on to the next step.

With the torso done, I need to slow down and take a break. The head needs some thought, and I need to cast some hands and feet before I go making the arms and legs.

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Tomb time.

Slowly cobbling things together for my tomb.

Built a foam cutter from mostly spare parts.

Then got to work getting all the pieces on the tomb itself.

Debating whether it’s a bit too tall or not. I mean, it fits in with realistic dimmensions, but wondering if I want to chop a foot off so kids can see the top more.

Next I need to start working on the fog chiller. But, even without, it’s coming along nicely on that front as well.

Now to start thinking on decorating the thing…

JK Studios.

Finally getting things back around to some semblence of ‘normal’ around here.

At some point just after halloween, I got to talking to a friend of mine who had recently begun JK Studio. Now, he may not think himself as the halloween type, but I personally beg to differ.

So, we got to talking. I’m always at a rush to make a mask just in time for Halloween…would he be interested in making one for me?

(and Talia has been talking about being a “Bob” for halloween ever since we got this one from them)

So, that meant we needed a copy of my face…

Being claustrophobic, that’s always…”fun”.

And, we had to do it twice since the first one got messed up. But, finally…

Did one of Kyle as well, to give them more bases to work off for their masks in general.

With those shipped off, we have moved on to my own projects.

I just couldn’t get those Transi tombs out of my head, so we’re going to make one ourselves.

Grave musings.

We’ve got a lot of the Christmas makeover up.

As usual, don’t worry too much, it’s temporary.

I need some better photoshopping skills to get the new Recondite banners up to par as well.

Anyhow, it’s that time of year when I climb into a hole and start researching ideas for next year.

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

But, I’ll be honest. I started research early this year. Way back in September. The children have been asking for it for years. Finally, I gave in this year. They want a graveyard, fine, we’ll make a graveyard…

I don’t really have an aversion to graveyards. I just have never really seen them as ‘spooky’ or ‘creept’ or anything, really, other than a fun peaceful place to go look up names and take rubbings. As with many things, it’s all mom’s fault. Finding some headstones from a hundred years ago was just part of a normal family vacation for us. Heck, I associate graveyards much more with spring than I do Halloween as a result.

But, every year, the kids see those “halloween stones” going up at the amusement park, or around the neighborhood, and they want to do their own.

Ok. I’ll give in. Once.

So, I set out trying to find ways to put a personal spin on the graveyard scene.

I sure wasn’t going to have vampires and witches sitting in it, I needed something more unique. I wanted a Ghoul. But, no, I was not satisfied with the modern interpretations that have them hardly distinguishable from zombies. No, I wanted to look into a Ghul. They had intrigued me while listening to the History of the Calif Vathek.

Bedouin tradition holds that a Ghul is a Djinn. Created of smoke and fire, shapeshifting, dangerous. Ghuls fell into the wastes, and thus live on whatever they can find.

Just how I’m going to conjure up such imagery, I’m not entirely decided upon yet, but it sure sounds like it’s going to be fun to try.