| Micheal Myers Halloween 2007 |
| My Son wanted to be Micheal Myers this year for Halloween. But the catch was he wanted to be the Jack o'Lantern Micheal seen briefly in the new Rob Zombie Halloween movie released this year (2007) So we talked it over and decided in order to be faithful to the film and how it was portrayed we would make it out of paper mache' as Micheal made his many masks in the movie. We also wanted this to fit well so we decided to take a life cast of him on which to make the mask. What follows are pictures we took of the process and how it turned out. |
| Taking the life cast. First the alginate. Then the plaster bandages. He was a trooper even though I think he was apprehensive at first he did great! |
| And here is the finished life cast. As you can see in the first two pictures the cast needed some cleaning up where ridges from the bald cap were and the eyebrows etc. Below is the cleaned life cast read for making the mask. |
Hours and many layers of paper mache to create our version of the Jack O'Lantern mask. |
| Here is the finished mask. We painted it black first then pumpkin orange over that. Was intentionally painted kind of blotchy since Micheal would not have access to better equipment to paint with. We added an elastic band to keep it in place as well as placed some foam padding in places on the inside for comfort. |
| And now Micheal goes to Greenfield Village trick or treating. While there we ran into another Micheal. I think over all the costume turned out as planned/hoped and the most important part is my son was happy with it. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! |