Not sure very much can be done to upgrade the rats we can get every year at the Dollar Store. For a dollar you get two rat positions, one in scurry mode on all four legs or one sitting up on it's hind legs. Not that the rubber rats aren't an excellent deal for a dollar each.
Belinda wanted to add some of them to the Shingle Creek Mausoleum facade under construction but we were afraid the all black rodents would get lost in the shadows. Around the same time we were debating this dilemma, prop master, fellow haunter, and proprietor of the
Haunt Calendar, Hector Turner, posted a photo on Face Book of some of the rubber rats that he had dry brushed with some brown that really made them stand out in the photo. And so we borrowed Hector's idea and added some color to our rats - What a difference!
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| A little white dry brushing to make the details pop |
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| Heat gun to straighten the tail on this one |
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| Found them a place on the mausoleum roof. Should cast a nice shadow against the light color of our house. |
Nice effect!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Simple but effective.
DeleteThey look fantastic scurrying along the mausoleum roof!
ReplyDeleteThanks Emma. Grainy photo but think they'll look good once it's all together.
DeleteWhat a phenomenal little detail that I must immediately steal-- I mean borrow!
ReplyDeleteLol, hey, I stole it from Hector!
DeleteI'm not usually into rats as decorations, but those are really working on your mausoleum! They have an actual creepy purpose and the way you posed them makes it look like the rats are moving.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I'm having my Halloween blog party on October 25th. You're welcome to attend! All you have to do is email me a photo of yourself in costume from any time in your life. My email address is on the side of my blog. Here's last year's party:
http://justineshalloween.blogspot.com/2012/10/justines-halloween-blog-party-2012.html
Hope to see you there!
P.S. ~ Are you on Twitter?
Thanks Justine!
DeleteI don't dress up... And no photos from when I was a kid :(
I'll try to pop in though.
Holy smokes - that's brilliant! I have all sorts of rats that (to my daughter's dismay) I put in the hall bathroom at my house. I have mostly black ones, a couple white ones & one lonely gray one. That really would make them look better!
ReplyDeleteHow can it be Halloween if there aren't at least a couple rats?! Thanks Lisa!
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