{"id":574,"date":"2015-07-17T19:59:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T19:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=574"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:46:46","slug":"evil-mechanical-dolls-halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/evil-mechanical-dolls-halloween-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil mechanical dolls Halloween costumes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evil-dolls-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evil-dolls-1.jpg\" alt=\"Evil dolls couples Halloween costumes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These were my fiancee&#8217;s and my costumes for Halloween 2010. They were our first-ever his-and-hers couple&#8217;s costumes, and we threw them together pretty last-minute! The only complicated\/time-consuming part was the paper mach\u00e9 turnkeys that went on our backs. I had never done paper mach\u00e9 before and had no idea what I was doing, so they ended up having really rough, uneven surfaces. The base for the keys was foam board and poster board, all taped together and then paper mach\u00e9&#8217;d over, then painted silver with acrylic paint.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n <div class=\"ad-300x250 ad-float-right\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MMS 300x250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5009313124668288\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3616150394\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The most important part of this whole design is how the keys attach to our backs! I wanted to make them easily removable so we could sit down in the subway and stuff. So I used velcro! The base of the key is a disc of foam board, paper mach\u00e9d to the key, and then another disc of foam board is attached to our clothing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=brass+fasteners&#038;espv=2&#038;biw=1920&#038;bih=965&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=-jKiVdvoFIHQ-QGiyaygDw&#038;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg\" target=\"_blank\">brass fasteners<\/a> &mdash; through my suspenders and through her sports bra. I superglued velcro onto each disc, and voil\u00e0! This worked out perfectly. <\/p>\n<p>The giant knife and scissors were junk I bought at the Halloween store and repainted; they were a dull gray color when I bought them, and I spray painted them black and dry-brushed them with silver acrylic paint, then I splattered red acrylic on them and covered them with a couple coats of matte spray. <\/p>\n<p>The rest is just thrift store clothes, a couple wigs, and a little Ben Nye creme makeup and stage blood. We also wore blood-red contact lenses. <\/p>\n<p>When assembling the clothes I had another great find; I bought Dickies pants and cut them off and thought I&#8217;d have to sew them (booo!), but it turns out there&#8217;s a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=iron+on+hem+tape&#038;espv=2&#038;biw=1920&#038;bih=965&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=ozOiVb_bGcT3-QGSiLnQAg&#038;ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw\" target=\"_blank\">iron-on hemming tape<\/a>; you just cut a piece, place it between the folded edges of your hemmed pantleg, and iron! That was a big time saver. <\/p>\n<p>If I had it all to do over again I&#8217;d do the turnkeys a bit differently! My paper mach\u00e9 and painting methods are much more refined now. I think I used Elmer&#8217;s Glue and newspaper, and I didn&#8217;t know to tear smaller pieces of paper to get a smoother look. Nowadays I use wallpaper adhesive and I always finish with a layer of craft paper, which absorbs the paste and turns nice and soft so you can smooth it out really well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evil-dolls-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evil-dolls-2.jpg\" alt=\"Evil mechanical dolls Halloween costumes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than paint the keys all over with silver acrylic, I would start with a base of black spray paint, and then dry-brush with silver (or bronze-colored) acrylic, to get a realistic aged\/dirty metallic look; nice and steampunk! <\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I think we did a good job with the clothes and wigs! This was a really fun costume and people got a real kick out of it. I&#8217;d totally do this one again sometime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were my fiancee&#8217;s and my costumes for Halloween 2010. They were our first-ever his-and-hers couple&#8217;s costumes, and we threw them together pretty last-minute! The only complicated\/time-consuming part was the paper mach\u00e9 turnkeys that went on our backs. I had never done paper mach\u00e9 before and had no idea what I was doing, so they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,92,47,117,37,65,11,3,119,118,120],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cosplay","tag-costume","tag-costume-ideas","tag-evil-dolls","tag-halloween-costume","tag-makeup","tag-painting","tag-paper-mache","tag-stage-blood","tag-steampunk","tag-wigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}