Halloween

Here's a POV shot of Halloween night.  Enjoying a beverage in a speak easy themed bar.
It's also not a bad shot of the finished weapon.  You can see the leather wrapping on the gun handle and the aged tuning knob.  I was really rather happy with how the stitching on the leather turned out.  It was my first attempt at such things, but I followed some advice I found on line normally used for putting leather handle wraps on oars.

Once the latex dried, I used some flesh colored paint on the body, with high gloss red paint for the wound.  I also added in some latex coated plastic sheets for "sking flaps" to pull back on hooks.  Lastly, I cut a hole in the bottom the torso.
We built an opperating table to conceal john.  With our design, he's able to use his real shoulders, head, and arms, but use the bloodly looking torso for the body, and an old stuffed pair of pants and shoots for the lower body.

The next step is to coat the torso in a layer of fake skin. I first tired applying liquid latex to the mold myself, but the foam is like a sponge so to get it to work I first wrapped the torso in plastic wrap.
In latter years I learned to use latex dies to get a flesh tone latex color without resorting to paint.

The mixing begins.
Timing here is important.  I want the chemicals intermixed completly, but if I mix too long it will start to foam while I'm still handling it.

Two part polyurethane is a fun little chemical. It mixes, and about 20 seconds later it foams up with a great deal of heat. A few hours latter it turns solid. It's also rather nasty stuff. It tends to stick to, or eats away at, all sorts of stuff. Thus the big gloves, as it's famous for merging with skin on contact. It doesn’t smell great either.